Usain Bolt Quotes

Practice the game the way you're going to play the game. Practice hard and play hard. Run hard and above all else, hustle every moment you're on the field where you are practicing or playing in a game.

I want to run every race with a big heart.

I played football in high school, I played baseball when I was younger, things like that, but I think it was the passion I had for track where you want to do an individual sport and be the best, I think - there's nothing that can replace that.

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

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!

I'm competitive. I like to compete, and that's basically what the decathlon lets me do.

Because running fast is more fun than running slow.

No matter what the game was or how much older and stronger the other kids were, we were taught to give it everything we had until it was over. Never give less than one hundred percent.

I feel I play hard every time I step on the field.

I want to run as fast as I can.

I probably train just as hard or harder as everybody.

The players on the pitch have the responsibility to run harder, fight harder.

Sports are 90% inspiration and 10% perspiration.

You don't win races by wishing, you win them by running faster than everyone else does.

I've always had a great interest in sports that embody the values of commitment, hard work and teamwork - all values I strongly believe in.

A lot of fans were drawn to me because they knew that whatever the score was, I was going to run as hard as I could on every play. You don't have that now, you have guys waiting for next week or even next year.

You can never give up-athletics taught me that. You must work hard, prepare, learn from your losses and continue to fight until the very end.

He was by no means opposed to hard labour on principle, for he would work away at a cricket-match by the day together, - running, and catching, and batting, and bowling, and revelling in toil which would exhaust a galley-slave.

I'm a competitor. I really enjoyed the race more than just going out and running to run.

Whenever I'm being invited to the New York City Marathon like today, I need to think twice because I know it's a very tough race.

I believe you should give 100% on the court, so I chase every ball.

On the ice, if I slow down, I can coast behind somebody for a couple of laps. If I slow down on the run, it'll turn into a walk.

I really do try hard to be a good teammate. I can't run very fast, but I try to always run hard. I may strike out a lot, but I try to walk to set up the guys who are hitting after me.

My introduction to track racing was through the background of cross country running, which is not a sport perhaps as popular in America as it is in England.

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