Steve Bullock Quotes

I've run the U.S.A. Ultra Championships.

Beating John Landy was my defining race.

Then to have your baby playing at the school you played at and having him play well is a special treat.

To be a winner of that, and to fall in the long line of traditional great backs at USC, to have your name in perpetuity, the fact that your parents are like icons... that's the greatest thing.

I wanted my children to be able to see me play at the World Cup.

Part of my growing up was always trying to make my parents proud and always trying to keep them happy. I think part of what held them together was my involvement in sports.

The last thing I want my child to see is Dad running around in the middle of the pack. That would really upset me. And that would upset him. I would be embarrassed to take him to school with kids saying, 'Hey, how'd your dad do this weekend?' 'Well, he finished fifth or sixth'.

The only time my records are going to be broken is by my own spawn. I'm going be training that child out the womb.

I've no desire to do one of those 50-mile races like the Comrades or anything like that.

Playing in the big leagues while my father is still active is the biggest thrill of my life. I try to see him play whenever I can.

My son William and my daughter Amy are both really into their hockey now and I can enjoy watching that.

To be a part of TT history is a massive achievement. It is one of, if not the greatest races on two wheels, if not on four.

My dad used to play basketball, now he gets to see me in the NBA Finals.

I don't feel any different than Tom Brady's daddy just because I played. I don't think I'm any different from any other father who's got a son out there playing.

When you have a son playing, you pull real hard for his team.

When I won gold in Athens, I said to my wife Cath, who was pregnant, 'This baby of ours will never want for anything.' There was real pride in that - but it just didn't happen.

I'm happy for my kids getting postseason opportunities, for both of them playing in the Super Bowl back to back. I never would have envisioned anything like that.

If you were good at tennis, you were a star in my dad's world.

My parents are super excited that they've produced an Olympian. I don't think they ever would have imagined this would happen in a million years, so I hope I represent not only Team U.S.A., but the Japanese-American culture and my family as well.

Mary Keitany from Kenya won the women's race at the New York City Marathon. You can tell she was fast because guys on the street didn't even have time to finish their catcalls.

I was national amateur champion. I was 24 years old. My father was there, and I couldn't wait to see him, and my mother. I went up and was waiting for all the accolades, and my mom was teary and happy and my dad looked at me and said, "Well, boy, you did good," and that was it.

I think [parents] became very proud, even though they were mortified by the early films because no one liked them.

Either black people end up being the best in sports, or else it's show business. You know, we all got rhythm.

Whether it was making my bed or making a movie, my mother and father never hesitated to say how proud they were of me, and that means so very much to a child.

One encounters very capable fathers abashed by their piano-playing daughters. Three measures of Schumann make them red with embarrassment.