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Marion Jones

lines on the record: 52
first: 2023-04-25
most recent: 2023-04-25
sittings or episodes: 1
sources: podcast

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“And now that part is gone. And I feel now that people will be able to understand because they have seen the real Marion that because of that, they will see themselves and say, you know what? If she can go through all of this, she could be up here at one point and down here at the next. And you know what? She's still okay with herself and now she wants to help people. I think that in and of itself will inspire people and help people. That's my hope.”
2023-04-25 · The Oprah Winfrey Show: The Podcast · Former Olympic Medalist Marion Jones’ First Interview After Prison · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“For the first time that I can remember in a long time, Oprah. People are seeing me for me, and I'm okay with it. If that makes any sense, I am happy with the skin that I'm in. No people are not seeing me anymore and smiling and praising me for how fast I ran on the track. They are speaking to me with truth and talking to me. I felt for so long that when people would talk to me, they were talking to me, but they were.”
2023-04-25 · The Oprah Winfrey Show: The Podcast · Former Olympic Medalist Marion Jones’ First Interview After Prison · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“This lie has caused all of our friends and family a good amount of shame, disappointment, and heartache. It was wrong in hindsight if I had it to do over again it would be different. Perhaps the not so obvious reasons for lying are a lot more personal than any magazine or news station could ever report. I truly believe that the reason I made the awful mistake and a few thereafter was because I didn't love myself enough to tell the truth. I have hidden behind my obvious talents for much of my life for fear that the weak, sad, hurt, and vulnerable Marian would emerge and ruin the plan for my life. Babies, what it comes down to is this mommy made a terrible mistake, one that cost me something more valuable and priceless than money can buy. My mistake cost me Monty and Emir for six months of our life. Are six months that I can never get back.”
2023-04-25 · The Oprah Winfrey Show: The Podcast · Former Olympic Medalist Marion Jones’ First Interview After Prison · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“To my precious and beloved Monty And Amir. I'm sitting on my top bunk at the place in Texas called Camp Carswell. I am at a place for women who have committed crimes or broken the law. Mommy is far away from both of you because I made a mistake in life, and because of it I have to pay a horrible price, which is being temporarily separated from you and your daddy. This place that your mommy has to live at for six months is called prison. I'm here because I made a decision several years ago to hide the truth for fear that all of our lives would be changed. What I didn't realize at that time was that this lie would forever impact all of our lives.”
2023-04-25 · The Oprah Winfrey Show: The Podcast · Former Olympic Medalist Marion Jones’ First Interview After Prison · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Is a bit of sadness because I love to compete. On the same token, I am energized by this next chapter. And I think really it's going to be bigger and better than that last chapter. And so my goal now is to find out how to connect with people on now a much bigger level. How can I help young people make certain choices and not make certain bad choices like I did? I do not want for the legacy of Marion Jones Thompson now to be this. I want it to be something bigger and better and something for my kids to be proud of. That's what really now it's all about.”
2023-04-25 · The Oprah Winfrey Show: The Podcast · Former Olympic Medalist Marion Jones’ First Interview After Prison · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“That's correct, and a lot of it has to do with some trauma in my childhood and kind of repressing feelings and things like that. And I think”
2023-04-25 · The Oprah Winfrey Show: The Podcast · Former Olympic Medalist Marion Jones’ First Interview After Prison · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I'm not living up to Marion Jones the athlete, that everything beyond being athletic wasn't really good enough. And so I always use that as a cover. And now, of course, I don't have that cover anymore. And I have really had to find out who I am, you know, and why I make certain choices.”
2023-04-25 · The Oprah Winfrey Show: The Podcast · Former Olympic Medalist Marion Jones’ First Interview After Prison · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I've learned a lot about myself in terms of questioning people a lot more of their motives. Questioning everything now But what's important, I think, is that I'm finally at a point now I'm older, I'm wiser. But because of my experiences and not just my prison experience, but everything before that has gotten me to where I am now. And I know that if I'm not comfortable in my own skin, I don't have athletics anymore to hide behind. Now it's me. What you get is you like it or you don't. It's interesting. In the past, it was Marion Jones, the athletes. But when you take that away, I always felt like a bit ashamed, not as confident in myself”
2023-04-25 · The Oprah Winfrey Show: The Podcast · Former Olympic Medalist Marion Jones’ First Interview After Prison · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I would have worn it all day and all night wherever to be with my family, but it didn't turn out that way. And sure I can compare my story to recent stories about other athletes or other people who were involved in certain situations and didn't get much time. It'd be easy to do that. It'd be easy to point the finger and say, it's the judge or a set. But you know what? It's me. I made the bad choice.”
2023-04-25 · The Oprah Winfrey Show: The Podcast · Former Olympic Medalist Marion Jones’ First Interview After Prison · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I'll be honest with you, I was disappointed with the sentence. Anybody who has to be away from their family or go to prison, you never want that. But I believe that the sentence was fair. I believe in the legal system, Oprah, and I didn't want to go. I was disappointed. I wanted home confinement or probation.”
2023-04-25 · The Oprah Winfrey Show: The Podcast · Former Olympic Medalist Marion Jones’ First Interview After Prison · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah. No. The hardest part, like I said, was being away from the family. And the second hardest part was being told what to do all day and every day. And so it's like the biggest slap in the face where they tell you when to stand up. They tell you when to lay down. It doesn't matter if you're Mary and Jones or not.”
2023-04-25 · The Oprah Winfrey Show: The Podcast · Former Olympic Medalist Marion Jones’ First Interview After Prison · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yes, a lot of them won bad choice. And, you know, I sit here and I say the ultimates price six months. Some of these women made one bad choice, Obra, and they're there for eighteen, nineteen, twenty years. And when I start hearing their stories, it starts giving me strength. You know what? If that lady down the hall can get through it and wake up every morning and smile and have the energy to get through the day, I certainly can. I have three more months here. I can do this. When I first went there, I'll be honest with you, I had the same idea of prison than probably most people have. You know, you see the stories. It was not like that at all. You don't have to be watching your back every second.”
2023-04-25 · The Oprah Winfrey Show: The Podcast · Former Olympic Medalist Marion Jones’ First Interview After Prison · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“There's so many to count. I would have to think that being away from my kids on their birthday. Our oldest son turned five while I was in prison, and our baby turned one. Yes. So having to be away from them and not experience those milestones. You can't ever get those back being away from my family. That's definitely the hardest when I got home.”
2023-04-25 · The Oprah Winfrey Show: The Podcast · Former Olympic Medalist Marion Jones’ First Interview After Prison · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, certainly. I would hope that the women who were on the team with me, and there are several of you all, you know who you are, apologize for my actions to lie to federal prosecutors. And I apologize for having to put everybody through all of this. And beyond that, it's like, okay, I've said it, I'm trying to move on. I hope that everybody else can move on too.”
2023-04-25 · The Oprah Winfrey Show: The Podcast · Former Olympic Medalist Marion Jones’ First Interview After Prison · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Oh, yes and no. I mean, to have to give up your gold medals is horrible, but it comes down to I made a choice to lie. My intent was never to harm them. You know, when I stepped on the track with them in Sydney, I thought we were going for the gold medal, and everybody on that track was drug free, including myself. I never stepped on that track with the intent to try and cover anything up and help them to win by doing something illegally. So I apologize to everybody that my choice to lie has affected, including them.”
2023-04-25 · The Oprah Winfrey Show: The Podcast · Former Olympic Medalist Marion Jones’ First Interview After Prison · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It wasn't, I didn't make the omission for a reason. I just, you have to understand at that moment trying to apologize to everybody whom I affected. And most importantly, my family, and it wasn't, I didn't make the choice not to. It just got blended in with everything else that whomever I have hurt, whomever has hurt because of this. I apologize.”
2023-04-25 · The Oprah Winfrey Show: The Podcast · Former Olympic Medalist Marion Jones’ First Interview After Prison · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“When I think about it. Think about my kids. I think about when the moment comes and I have to explain to them. When they see my name and they see my times from 97 and 98 and 99, then all of a sudden there's no mommy or no Marion Jones in the record books. Well, what then? To you, my fans, including my young supporters, the United States, track and feel association, My closest friends, my mother, my husband, My children I want you to know that I have been dishonest. And you have the right to be angry with me. I have let them down. I have let my country down and I have let myself down. I want to ask for your forgiveness, for my actions, and I hope you can find it in your heart to forgive me.”
2023-04-25 · The Oprah Winfrey Show: The Podcast · Former Olympic Medalist Marion Jones’ First Interview After Prison · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Are moments when I will go through the races in my head quietly, privately, and I'll ask myself, well, if you hadn't been given the clare, do you think you would have won? Do you think you would have ran fast? Do you think you would have beat everybody? And I usually answer yes. I still think I would have won. But just the fact that there's a question mark Me is not fair, not fair for anybody that I ran against. It's not fair for the women who ran with me on the relay. Just the fact that Is not fair.”
2023-04-25 · The Oprah Winfrey Show: The Podcast · Former Olympic Medalist Marion Jones’ First Interview After Prison · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Representatives of the USOC and USA Track and Field came to my home and we gave them the medals It wasn't as difficult to give back the medals because it's not about the hardware, it's just hardware, but it's the memory that will be tarnished, knowing that me crossing the finish line. And celebrating with me, I remember crossing the line and looking up and seeing my mother and seeing my family.”
2023-04-25 · The Oprah Winfrey Show: The Podcast · Former Olympic Medalist Marion Jones’ First Interview After Prison · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And so it is with a great amount of shame. I stand before you and tell you that I have betrayed your trust. I want all of you to know that today I pled guilty to two counts. Of making false statements to federal agents, and I am responsible fully for my actions. I have no one to blame but myself for what I have done.”
2023-04-25 · The Oprah Winfrey Show: The Podcast · Former Olympic Medalist Marion Jones’ First Interview After Prison · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And then, of course, in 2006, 2007, we were approached by federal prosecutors that it was time they had information that they knew that I lied. And that either we were going to trial or I was going to have to make a plea.”
2023-04-25 · The Oprah Winfrey Show: The Podcast · Former Olympic Medalist Marion Jones’ First Interview After Prison · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Nope. I knew at that point that I would never take anything that he gave me again. But I was concerned that if I made rash decisions, if I did anything of that, people would start to question me. And so I simply continued the lie, continued saying, I know that I've never taken performance-enhancing drugs. Or a lot of times what I would say, Oprah, I have never knowingly taken performance-enhancing drugs. And so then I was able to kind of live with myself. Technically, I was telling the truth”
2023-04-25 · The Oprah Winfrey Show: The Podcast · Former Olympic Medalist Marion Jones’ First Interview After Prison · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Absolutely. Absolutely. I'm very disappointed. And I question my decision to hire him as a coach. I question not questioning him when he would give me certain supplements and just trusting that Everything would be on the up and up. So, yeah, I was disappointed, mad”
2023-04-25 · The Oprah Winfrey Show: The Podcast · Former Olympic Medalist Marion Jones’ First Interview After Prison · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I mean, ultimately, I hold myself responsible for, well, first of all, for lying to federal prosecutors, but for not being more careful with the people that I associated with. And that questioned people more. Very trusting. And so for that, I blame myself”
2023-04-25 · The Oprah Winfrey Show: The Podcast · Former Olympic Medalist Marion Jones’ First Interview After Prison · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“My coach at the time, Trevor Graham, and my former husband had a relationship with him. Went to him asking for supplement advice. The group and for myself. And so that's how the whole connection started.”
2023-04-25 · The Oprah Winfrey Show: The Podcast · Former Olympic Medalist Marion Jones’ First Interview After Prison · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“There are lots of reasons why people, I've shared with you some of the reasons why I lie, I do not know particularly why he would lie. Oprah, I know that what I admitted to federal prosecutors was the truth. And I paid obviously a huge consequence because of that. And that's really what I can focus on. I don't know his reasons or his motives”
2023-04-25 · The Oprah Winfrey Show: The Podcast · Former Olympic Medalist Marion Jones’ First Interview After Prison · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No, I never thought that. I mean, from an early age, I was winning races. I mean, early on, this is not just started in college or after college professionally. From a very early on, I realized that I had something that everybody else didn't. I'm further ahead. I'm stronger. I'm faster. And so by the time I graduated from college and I turned professional, and I'm still beating people, it was just continuing the same thing. I never thought that I needed to use performance enhancing drugs to make me better.”
2023-04-25 · The Oprah Winfrey Show: The Podcast · Former Olympic Medalist Marion Jones’ First Interview After Prison · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yes, I mean, you know, it's just like anything. You have the rumor mill. You always people talk about oh, such and such, you know, that they're doing something when you really don't know.”
2023-04-25 · The Oprah Winfrey Show: The Podcast · Former Olympic Medalist Marion Jones’ First Interview After Prison · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Nothing felt different. I felt strong. I felt powerful. I do all the time. A little bit faster. I'm preparing on the track. I'm preparing in the weight room. The supplements are together. Everything is coming together. I'm supposed to be better this year. So that's the difference that I felt. And I attributed that to everything, putting everything together. You know, you win a gold medal, you break world records because everything worked that year.”
2023-04-25 · The Oprah Winfrey Show: The Podcast · Former Olympic Medalist Marion Jones’ First Interview After Prison · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Right, and I was going to say. To believe. But I think an athlete on the highest level, Oprah. You know your body. And nothing reasons why.”
2023-04-25 · The Oprah Winfrey Show: The Podcast · Former Olympic Medalist Marion Jones’ First Interview After Prison · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I was taking the typical stuff vitamin C, vitamin E, you know, creatin, things like that. And so I just thought that we had put the system together in preparation for the games. And so the results were being shown on the track Everything put together.”
2023-04-25 · The Oprah Winfrey Show: The Podcast · Former Olympic Medalist Marion Jones’ First Interview After Prison · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No. No, certainly not. I mean, I just attributed the difference to hard training, finally getting the supplements, you know, working in conjunction with what I'm doing. Because were you taking others?”
2023-04-25 · The Oprah Winfrey Show: The Podcast · Former Olympic Medalist Marion Jones’ First Interview After Prison · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yes and no. I mean, I know looking in hindsight, yeah, there were moments that I felt like I had more energy on the track. I had that second wind. Know that some people talk about, and you know, there were times in training in particular where I just felt really good when typically you probably wouldn't feel really good at the end of a workout.”
2023-04-25 · The Oprah Winfrey Show: The Podcast · Former Olympic Medalist Marion Jones’ First Interview After Prison · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“He didn't really have to tell me that, Oprah. Things are very hush, hush in the world of athletics, particularly when it comes to supplements and vitamins, because nobody wants to give anybody else the edge. So, what you take in this camp, you don't want to let anybody know in another camp?”
2023-04-25 · The Oprah Winfrey Show: The Podcast · Former Olympic Medalist Marion Jones’ First Interview After Prison · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, I knew that there were a number of supplements, vitamins that I needed to just balance my system out so I can be on an even playing field with everybody else”
2023-04-25 · The Oprah Winfrey Show: The Podcast · Former Olympic Medalist Marion Jones’ First Interview After Prison · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So, I was in an environment where I was trusting the people around me. I never thought in a million years that anybody would do anything.”
2023-04-25 · The Oprah Winfrey Show: The Podcast · Former Olympic Medalist Marion Jones’ First Interview After Prison · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Sometimes it comes in appeal form that looks kind of clear, and that's what actually this vial that they pushed across the table in the vial, it looked like this clear liquid.”
2023-04-25 · The Oprah Winfrey Show: The Podcast · Former Olympic Medalist Marion Jones’ First Interview After Prison · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I was told that I was being given, what did he say that it was? It's been so long that I've had to discuss it, Oprah. I don't remember what he told me at this moment that he was giving me, but he gave me a number of different supplements.”
2023-04-25 · The Oprah Winfrey Show: The Podcast · Former Olympic Medalist Marion Jones’ First Interview After Prison · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yes. If I would have taken that moment and gone out of the room with my attorneys and shared this information with them. And they tell me, you know what, Marion, if you go back in there and you lie and it comes back out, you might have to go to prison. You might have to be away from your family. Your reputation would be tarnished. Yeah, if you go back in there and you tell them the truth right now, things will be difficult immediately. But she'll be able to rebound and do certain things. But if you go back in there and lie, Marion, you know, things can really get bad. If I would have taken that five minute break, I think things would have been different.”
2023-04-25 · The Oprah Winfrey Show: The Podcast · Former Olympic Medalist Marion Jones’ First Interview After Prison · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, I mean, it was just all these things running through my mind. I thought about my family. I thought about how proud they were when I won the medals and then when I achieved success and how disappointed they would be. I thought about my kids or my kid at the time, I only had MC at the time. Thought about... My finances, I thought about my sponsors. If I had just taken a break Stop the interview that I was having with the prosecutors, walked out of the room, spoken with my attorneys, just taken five minutes. I think things would be different.”
2023-04-25 · The Oprah Winfrey Show: The Podcast · Former Olympic Medalist Marion Jones’ First Interview After Prison · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I didn't know. I know I had worked hard, and I know I've been blessed with a great amount of talent, Ober, but I didn't know in my heart of hearts how much that aided me, how much that assisted me at the Sydney Games.”
2023-04-25 · The Oprah Winfrey Show: The Podcast · Former Olympic Medalist Marion Jones’ First Interview After Prison · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“The clear, yes. Right. And so when they showed it to me and they said, this is the substance, and I knew that I had taken that substance. I made the decision that I was going to lie and I was going to try and cover it up.”
2023-04-25 · The Oprah Winfrey Show: The Podcast · Former Olympic Medalist Marion Jones’ First Interview After Prison · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I knew when they showed it to me and they told me that the clear. See, I had heard all about the clear before coming there, but before they showed it to me, I never knew what it looked like because it wasn't introduced to me.”
2023-04-25 · The Oprah Winfrey Show: The Podcast · Former Olympic Medalist Marion Jones’ First Interview After Prison · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“The substance, call the clear And immediately when they took it out of their bag, or I don't know the particulars, and they pushed it across the table, I mean, it perhaps was a span of three, four seconds, Oprah. And immediately when they put it out there, I knew that that was the substance that had been given to me. But in that brief moment, I made the decision that I had worked so hard in my career and that I knew that by telling them that I had been given the substance and had taken the substance, that all of that was going to be questioned.”
2023-04-25 · The Oprah Winfrey Show: The Podcast · Former Olympic Medalist Marion Jones’ First Interview After Prison · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“They hadn't. Yes. They hadn't. They hadn't. They then pulled out the Little vial I can say and pushed it across the table.”
2023-04-25 · The Oprah Winfrey Show: The Podcast · Former Olympic Medalist Marion Jones’ First Interview After Prison · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“In like a conference room And I have my attorneys on each side, and I'm sitting across the table. I think there were three prosecutors, and they're asking me different questions about the whole involvement with the use of performance-enhancing drugs in sport. Had they?”
2023-04-25 · The Oprah Winfrey Show: The Podcast · Former Olympic Medalist Marion Jones’ First Interview After Prison · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I was given it by my coach, Trevor Graham. And when I saw the substance, I mean, it's one of those moments that you wish you can go back and you wish you can have again.”
2023-04-25 · The Oprah Winfrey Show: The Podcast · Former Olympic Medalist Marion Jones’ First Interview After Prison · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“But it came down to is I made a bad decision in the year 2000 and 2001. And the reason that I ended up in prison was because I lied to federal investigators about a case. They had been. Investigating, and of course, the case involved track and field or athletics and the use of performance enhancing drugs. I was invited to meet with prosecutors that were investigating the case. And I went in and they showed me a substance, and when I saw the substance, I knew that I had taken the substance, had been given the substance, the substance the year prior. And immediately when I saw the substance,”
2023-04-25 · The Oprah Winfrey Show: The Podcast · Former Olympic Medalist Marion Jones’ First Interview After Prison · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And I tell people that either there are consequences for your choices that you make, there are consequences for the actions that you take. And these are just part of the consequences that I have to face”
2023-04-25 · The Oprah Winfrey Show: The Podcast · Former Olympic Medalist Marion Jones’ First Interview After Prison · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“For two years. Two years. It's part of my sentence. In addition to the six months imprisonment, part of the sentence was also that I have 800 hours of community service.”
2023-04-25 · The Oprah Winfrey Show: The Podcast · Former Olympic Medalist Marion Jones’ First Interview After Prison · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source