Usain Bolt Quotes

I was playing cricket first and my cricket coach was the one that introduced me to track and field.

I could produce spurts of speed and after taking up athletics I found myself running quite quickly over 400m.

I like to think of myself as a pretty good athlete, I don't think I'm a great sprinter, but 200, 400, maybe 800. I won't say excel in them, but I'd do pretty good.

We are just not made up to be middle distance runners.

I'm a really fast runner. No one can catch me - I'm quick.

Rivalries don't necessarily mean races being close at major championships. I had a rivalry with Butch Reynolds for many years. I won all the races, but Butch was the world record holder before I came into the sport, he was extremely talented and he was the only other man running 43 seconds.

In high school, I did a little track and field and ran on my own. In college, I would run every now and again, but I didn't have enough time to be devoted to it.

In the fifth grade I discovered something I could do better than the other kids. One day, the teacher set up a bunch of chairs, and she had everyone run to the chairs and back while she timed us. I had the fastest time in the whole school!

When I was in high school, I ran hurdles, but I was really short, so I'd barely clear them. I was pretty quick, but I had little legs, so I had to take 50 steps in between each hurdle.

I think track is still one of the most exciting participant sports, but we haven't been able to capitalize on that excitement through television and the print media.

As a kid, I was a pretty good little sprinter.

I actually like indoor track and field more than outdoor.

I think I was in the most historical and golden era of track and field.

The 100m is never stressful.

In the television era, the second week of the Olympics is reserved for what is considered the marquee event: track and field.

I love sprinting, but I hate long-distance running. Isn't that funny?

I do the whole 10-event thing, but at the end of the day, it's still track and field.

If I run 100 meters 30 times, that is 3 kilometers and no longer a sprint.

When I was a kid, I was a pretty good runner, and there was nothing like winning a race.

In England I played everything - swimming, athletics, football, rugby, badminton, cricket - all of that stuff. I was in the first teams for all the sports at Brighton, played on the wing in rugby, and ran 100m, 200m, 400m, and did long jump and even the javelin at one point. In the States I did a bit of track, but mainly I was there for the boxing.

When I was in school, we would always have running races. I was good at it. Always sprinting. I can run long distance, too.

I want to run as fast as I can.

I enjoy my athletics, and I want to take it as far as I can.

I ran track, and I was really good at it. I was really fast.

I was a runner in Delhi's Army Public School. I started running when I was in class four and became the fastest sprinter in school and zone competitions by the time I reached class eight.