Breaking Records Quotes

I have the opportunity to be part of swimming history. To take the sport to a new level would be an honor for me. There's no better time to try this than now.

I'm just glad we get to see old records being broken. That's what sports is all about.

If everything had already been done, there would be nothing left for young people to accomplish. There are always going to be people who run faster, jump higher, dive deeper, and come up drier.

Take the great example of the four-minute mile. One guy breaks it, then all of a sudden everyone breaks it. And they break it in such a short period of time that it can't be because they were training harder. It's purely that it was a psychological barrier, and someone had to show them that they could do it.

There's probably nothing quite like crossing the finish line and seeing the clock read numbers that you have never seen before.

Messi will continue to break records.

I knew unless I got stopped I was going to go all the way. I don't know if I can run any faster. I just ran as fast as I could.

After many of my victories, I hear people asking me these questions: 'What else is there to win?' And I want to shout, 'What do you mean, what else? There's so much else!'

I kept hearing about my 54-hole record and I kept telling myself that records are made to be broken.

I'm hoping someday that some kid, black or white, will hit more home runs than myself. Whoever it is, I'd be pulling for him.

I'm going to reach that No. 1 on Billboard.

Once the record was mine, I had to use it like a Louisville Slugger. I believed, and still do, that there was a reason why I was chosen to break the record. I feel it's my task to carry on where Jackie Robinson left off, and I only know of one way to go about it. It's the only way I've ever had of dealing with things like fastballs and bigotry -- keep swinging at them.

Records are there to be broken.

To jump and break the sound barrier will not be a mere record breaking experience or another extreme event that ends once the mission is accomplished.

I want to keep pushing the limits to see what's possible. That's the nice thing about ski racing - no one is stopping you from going faster.

Ever since I was a kid, I'd imagine that I was making a break to win the world championship.

Statistics are there to be broken.

All I know is, I don't want to stop coaching, and I don't want to stop winning, so we're gonna break the record unless I die.

People were not ready to accept me as a baseball player. The easiest part of that whole thing, chasing the Babe's record, was playing the game itself. The hardest thing was after the game was over, dealing with the press. They could never understand.

I want to be the defensive player to break the MVP barrier. I want to break barriers. I want to do things when people tell me I can't.

Nadal is going to break all the records.

It's like the first man to go to the moon, I will be the first man to run under two hours, this is crucial.

We're doing 3,000 seaters before that we never played anything more than 1,000.

When I was about to break a world record and become well known, my mother used to say that for her the important thing was for me to become a doctor - a career which had not been possible in her generation and in her society. Sport was something to be set aside.

I never set out to have a No. 1 single, not at all, man.