World Records Quotes - Page 2

• I'm really happy to have set the world record for the fastest disabled woman, but I think I can go much faster.

  Heather Mills

  Thinking, Records, World

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• I haven't even thought about a world record. I just want to go out there and have fun. I think when you focus too much on the numbers, you don't see anything that's out there.

  Missy Franklin

  Fun, Thinking, Numbers

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• When you're tied to one show, you are very much at the mercy of the writers so you can suddenly get a script where you have a heart attack and die. I've got to be in The Guinness Book of World Records for having the most heart attacks on television.

  Alan Dale

  Book, Heart, Television

  "Alan Dale: The Nicest Bad Guy in The Biz". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, www.etonline.com. February 6, 2013.

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• Ingrid Kristiansen then has smashed the world record, running the 5000 metres in 14:58.89. Truly amazing. Incidentally, this is a personal best for Ingrid Kristiansen.

  David Coleman

  Inspirational, Funny, Running

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• That's the fastest time ever run - but it's not as fast as the world record

  David Coleman

  Inspirational, Funny, Running

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• Breaking the world record in '92 was a very special personal moment, but I'd say my favorite moment as a decathlete was winning the Olympic gold medal.

  Dan O'Brien

  Winning, Special, Gold

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• Rivalries don't necessarily mean races being close at major championships. I had a rivalry with Butch Reynolds for many years. I won all the races, but Butch was the world record holder before I came into the sport, he was extremely talented and he was the only other man running 43 seconds.

  Michael Johnson

  Sports, Running, Mean

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• (Algerian athlete, 1996 Summer Olympics, on the 3000m world record)
  I think my 3:27 for 1500m is worth 7:21 for 3000m.

  Noureddine Morceli

  Summer, Athlete, Thinking

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• President Obama, by the way, has set a Guinness World Record as the fastest person to get a million Twitter followers. Obama now has as many followers as the Republicans have presidential candidates.

  Conan O'Brien

  Presidential, Followers, Records

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• Prior to me, no one in my family is in the field of IT, but I can feel that my brothers are following my footsteps very anxiously and enthusiastically. They are posing a constant challenge to my world record.

  Arfa Karim

  Brother, Challenges, Records

  Source: arfakarim.wordpress.com

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• In running, I know that I can train as much as I want and Im never going to break the world record for the five miles. Its partly genetics; Im just not built for it. But if I worked really hard, I might be able to cut my time by half. Could I do the same thing with my mind and my well-being?

  Stefan Sagmeister

  Running, Cutting, Mind

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• It's a great feat for me to have broken my world record.

  Usain Bolt

  Broken, Records, World

  "'I aim to become a legend,' says Usain Bolt as he smashes 200m world record" by Anna Kessel, www.theguardian.com. August 20, 2009.

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• I like to joke that I probably hold the world record for rejection letters. Yes, the truth is that I was fed up of being rejected repeatedly, and self-publicatio n was an act of defiance at traditional publishing. But life works in strange ways.

  Ashwin Sanghi

  Self, Rejection, Records

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• Think how weird profit margins are: We've got high unemployment and financial crises - and world record profit margins. People think the American market is very cheap. We don't. The market quite incorrectly gives full credit to today's earnings.

  Jeremy Grantham

  Thinking, People, Giving

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• The London games mark the 24th anniversary of my winning two golds and setting the world record in the heptathlon. Someone is going to want it; records are made to be broken - it's only a matter of time. I hope mine will outlive me.

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee

  Anniversary, Winning, Games

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• I don't linger on the fact that Dawn Fraser was a great swimmer 40 years ago. That was in the past. I did break 41 world records, but I don't live on that today.

  Dawn Fraser

  Sports, Past, Years

  "The Sports Factor" with Amanda Smith, www.abc.net.au. June 8, 2001.

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• Going into that race I was going for the world record, just quietly, but I wasn't feeling at my best all week so it was hard to determine what would happen. I could not believe it, I went into shock, I'm still in shock.

  Leisel Jones

  Motivational, Sports, Believe

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• I can definitely take more off my world record - a lot more. I have no doubt about that. I'm by no means putting pressure on myself, it's just the belief I have in myself......I'm not going to limit myself by nominating times or anything like that. I never thought I'd do 14:34 and I did. I thought I'd maybe do 14:38 or 14:39 that day, and I went nearly five seconds quicker so I don't want to limit the possibilities

  Grant Hackett

  Motivational, Sports, Athlete

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• Sports are too much with us. Late and soon, sitting and watching - mostly watching on television - we lay waste our powers of identification and enthusiasm and, in time, attention as more and more closing rallies and crucial putts and late field goals and final playoffs and sudden deaths and world records and world championships unreel themselves ceaselessly before our half-lidded eyes.

  Roger Angell

  Sports, Eye, Goal

  Roger Angell (2013). “The Summer Game”, p.348, Open Road Media

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• 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.

  Roger Bannister

  Sports, Mother, Athlete

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• The Athletic Association competed against the University. So there was an event. You cannot break world records unless it is an established event, and you have three timekeepers, and the whole thing is organized.

  Roger Bannister

  Sports, Athlete, Athletic

  "Breaking the Four-Minute Mile". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 7, 2002.

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• The greatest and most momentous fact which
  the history of the world records is the fact of-Christ's birth.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christmas, World, Facts

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• I have never cared about setting world records, or filling my boat with fish, or, for that matter, even catching fish. I go for the experience of spending six hours in the arms of the ocean, never thinking of a single thing except chasing fish.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Ocean, Thinking, Records

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• When people go to a track meet, they're looking for something, a world record, something that hasn't been done before. You get all this magnetic energy, people focusing on one thing at the same time. I really get excited about it. It makes me want to compete even more. It makes it all worthwhile, all the hours of hard work.

  Steve Prefontaine

  Hard Work, People, Track

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• No matter what, like, I couldn't - I could break a world record, get an Olympic gold medal, and my mom would be, like, you could have done better. But you looked pretty. That's what she says all the time.

  Ryan Lochte

  Mom, Gold, Would Be

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