Peter Snell Quotes

Ingrid Kristiansen then has smashed the world record, running the 5000 metres in 14:58.89. Truly amazing. Incidentally, this is a personal best for Ingrid Kristiansen.

Prior to the 1976 Olympics, I was a 5,000m runner.

This is what I wanted. They tell me that London is the best field in history. I wanted to be part of that. Because everyone will be there it will be a wonderful challenge for me. You can see the best runners, how they look, how they run. For me to beat the best is what counts.

I'm quite excited to think that I will run the Olympic race here next year.

Speed is more important than endurance in the decathlon.

My cousin Simon Bor, the champion of Los Angeles, convinced me to concentrate on running.

I used to be an athlete and even ran the 400 metre stretch for Tamil Nadu. I have always been active.

You can get a big gust of wind, and your Olympics are over.

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

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.

Brother Colm is one of the best coaches who's ever been here in Kenya. He's been, of course, my coach since I started running. He saw me in high school when I was still doing 400, and 200 meters. He decided for me to join his club and we'd been training for one month. That is when he saw me and he thought I could do a good 800.

I've got to do Gotzis at least once.

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

I wouldn't know who Michael Johnson was if he didn't run fast times.

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

Mum tries to make every race that she can.

I don't have any close friends that are my competitors. I think that's just the nature of being a sprinter.

I won't say I'm the new Usain Bolt, I'm the new Christian Coleman.

In 100m, the timings fluctuate.

My athlete idol is Usain Bolt. He's inhumanly fast!

Running is a mental sport, more than anything else. You're only as good as your training, and your training is only as good as your thinking.

That's the fastest time ever run - but it's not as fast as the world record

Rincewind had always been happy to think of himself as a racist. The One Hundred Meters, the Mile, the Marathon -- he'd run them all.

I knew it was my time to retire, when I saw Messi running past me.

I thought I'd never get to see that. Florence Griffith Joyner -- every time she ran, I ran.