Unprecedented Feat Quotes

I feel really blessed when people start comparing me with Sachin, but I keep myself focused on my performance and not on such comparisons. I literally worship him, so I don't see too much in this comparison. No cricketer has been able to score one hundred centuries like Sachin.

And this year is going to be the 25th anniversary of the 17-0 team, the only undefeated season.

It is amazing to win an event but to do it with the best standard ever been known in a final is incredible.

I try to do what has never been done before.

To be the first to enter the cosmos, to engage, single-handed, in an unprecedented duel with nature-could one dream of anything more?

Records are the only thing that remain of an athlete, the only thing that people will remember. If I want to ensure that people don't forget me, I can only stop once I've set the bar as high as possible for anyone coming after me.

World records are only borrowed.

Extraordinary is a player who can score 60 goals. There are not a lot. Otherwise I think we would overuse the term.

I am very glad not only to complete the grand slam, but to become Olympic champion alone makes me happy.

To be the first player to do it three consecutive years (fifty or more home runs), you go back through the thousands of power hitters who played this game and nobody has ever done it, and I can sit here and say I'm the first. I'm pretty proud of that.

I'm close to achieving something that very few boxers ever have - and that is to retire undefeated, like Rocky Marciano.

I hope he (Babe Ruth) lives to hit one-hundred homers in a season. I wish him all the luck in the world. He has everybody else, including myself, hopelessly outclassed.

I'm the world 'Guinness Book of Records' holder of 1,749 hugs in one hour. My arms fell off.

I came up with the idea of a daredevil who's going to go upside down, in a metal car, at 90 mph, and it's never been done before. I get into this metal car, I'm strapped in. You pull back, and it's a roller coaster at Magic Mountain, with kids and nuns and everything else! I pass out while everybody else is having a wonderful time.

I fear we have shot our bolt - but we have been to Pole and done the longest journey on record.

I very much doubt that it could happen again that any manager would do 20 years with a top Premiership club.