Usain Bolt Quotes

I've always been really inspired by watching top athletes putting in peak performances.

After the failure in '92, my goal was to be a good pole vaulter. I used that as motivation.

Watching boxer Dingko Singh's performance at the Asian Games, Bangkok, where he won gold, was the defining moment. I was 15 and enjoyed sports more than anything else. Singh's performance changed my life and inspired me to follow boxing.

Nike was the essence of sports, transcendence through sports.

For every athlete, it is very important to be able to engage in their favorite thing, give all the best in training, performing in competitions, defending the honor of the motherland.

I had to sit out for 21 weeks. I got to feel what it would be like if I didn't play, and I can't imagine not playing.

The most passionate fans are from India, and I hope that I can motivate more Indians to pursue wrestling - or any athletics, for that matter - and become champions.

If I am on the pitch there is a lot of energy in my body.

As a competitor, as a guy that wants to play, of course, it would be great to go out and play.

I'm an athlete, and I have been interested in sports films.

Athletes need to enjoy their training. They don't enjoy going down to the track with a coach making them do repetitions until they're exhausted. From enjoyment comes the will to win.

When I was much younger and still competing in gymnastics, I could rarely find inspiration outside of the sport.

Unfortunately, I've been fighting injuries recently more than facing rivals in the ring.

Athletes as a rule are stronger than their backers; yet the weaker presses the stronger to put forth all his efforts.

I think that there's only one nationality and one language in the sport, and you call it performance.

Your best athletes might give basketball a try just when they think, geez, this might be something that pays off for me in the end.

As far as my sport is concerned, my mission is to make it as big as it deserves to be. We've been growing, it's just not as noticeable. The NCAA picked beach volleyball up to be a championship sport, and it was the fastest test sport that's been adopted. That's a really big deal for our sport because that just means the USA system is going to have a feeder system from the college system.

I think every athlete that’s just out here for the Olympics just does something to inspire those around them and inspire each other.

My thing I liked was to challenge guys that were smaller, guys that were supposed to be quicker. Because I think self-consciously I was trying to prove to people it wasn't just my height that was getting me across in these various sports. It was some other intrinsic things that I had that made me a good athlete.

To a sprinter, the hundred-yard dash is over in three seconds, not nine or ten. The first 'second' is when you come out of the blocks. The next is when you look up and take your first few strides to attain gain position. By that time the race is actually about half over. The final 'second' - the longest slice of time in the world for an athlete - is that last half of the race, when you really bear down and see what you're made of. It seems to take an eternity, yet is all over before you can think what's happening.

You look at Ray Lewis, you look at Brett Favre. I know it's different positions, but you think about the mental mindset it takes to continue to grind and play at a high level. Those are the guys that I look at that motivate me.

Sure I do, and if someone paid you six-thousand dollars a game, you'd have fun as well.

I'm a high-performance athlete: I'm running, I'm sprinting, I'm sliding, I'm doing pretty much everything and the last thing I want to worry about is my chest. I want to just worry about playing the sport at the highest level that I can.

Do not speak defeat, speak victory.

When I was younger I only read sports books. I loved the biographies that told how athletes developed. When I got into coaching, I did start to read more instructional books, but I was always more interested in the people behind the ideas.