Emil Zatopek Quotes

Being a track sprinter, when it's all about a thousandth of a second, there is no escaping the numbers every single day.

It's very easy to run a good 200 m. after an appalling shot put.

Skating is a sport that I found a lot of interest in from a very, very young age. Ultimately, I think that being on the ice, being in the cold, and trying things and challenging myself in different ways is something that made me really interested in skating.

I haven't just got a fight IQ - and I'm clever. I've got that power. I've got that movement. I've got that timing.

Obviously my strong suit is the 100 so that is what my main focus is on.

I'm a speed skater. That's who I am, in my heart.

Well, of course a boxing match is hard because boxing isn't set for you to do good. You have to force your will upon someone, but dancing you don't have to force your will. It should be a lot easier because if I make a mistake I don't get hit.

I could jump, I was quick, I could catch and all those types of things, but when it came to just flat out speed, that's something I had to work really hard at.

A good fighter usually knows, to within a very few seconds, when a three-minute round is going to end.

Speed is more important than endurance in the decathlon.

My running style was kind of just head-on, because I couldn't dance.

I went to Beijing for the Olympics and was literally right across the track from Usain Bolt. And when he gets to full stride, for every two steps the other guy's taking, he's just taking one.

Pole vaulting is an event of high and lows.

Dancing is just like racing. You don't learn choreography. They just give you steps to do, and you do them over and over and over. It's very much like what I do in racing.

I like a man who can run faster than I can.

I have dedicated my life to the 200m, I really love the 200m a lot.

In gymnastics, you have to be perfect every step along the way.

We always spend more time on the throwing events and a little bit more on the long jump. They're my weaker events - they don't come as naturally to me as running and jumping. I like the hurdles and the high-jump, I'm a springy, speedy athlete so those suit me.

I'm going to focus on speed, doing little things like my turns and my starts - just speed.

The 200 meters is my baby. To me, it's the perfect distance. It's still a true sprint, but it unravels more. You get to enjoy the race a little bit more than the 100.

Sport doesn't know barriers, really. You are judged on your performance... how far you can jump, how fast you can run, how well you can hit a tennis ball.

Football is a game about feelings and intelligence.

Football is an art, like dancing is an art - but only when it's well done does it become an art.

I played small forward on the basketball team. I also ran the 300 hurdles.

I trained with a few Olympic runners and jumpers. Just to try to get a little bit faster, a little bit better. Anything I could do to try to get a little bit better and stay ahead of the competition.