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source: "Usain Bolt talks secret post-season parties, fame and the fear of losing". Interview with Alastair Campbell, www.gq-magazine.co.uk. August 15, 2016.

topic: Running, Winning, Should Have, World Records

I'm not a person who embraces challenges. I run from challenges. I break world records running from challenges.

- Larry David

topic: Running, Romance, Challenges, World Records

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

- Charles Spurgeon

topic: Christmas, Records, World, World Records, Christian Christmas

If there was an Olympics for misleading, mismanaging and misappropriating, this administration would take the gold. World records for violations of national and international laws. They want another four-year term to continue to alienate our allies, spend our children's inheritance and hollow out our economy. We can't afford another Republican administration.

- Dennis Kucinich

source: Dennis Kucinich's Speech at the Democratic National Convention in Denver, Colorado, www.politico.com. August 26, 2008.

topic: Children, Years, Law, World Records, Mislead

Ya'll know what you need to do? Get together, make a We Are The World record.

- Curtis Jackson

topic: Peace, Special, Together, World Records

Doing justice to the work is your task, not setting a world record.

- Seth Godin

topic: Greatness, Justice, Tasks, World Records

When I lost my decathlon world record I took it like a man. I only cried for ten hours.

- Daley Thompson

topic: Men, World, Records, World Records, Decathlon

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

topic: Thinking, People, Giving, World Records, Profit Margin

One-time Guinness World Record holder for Yo-Yo endurance.

- Bob Brown

topic: Google, Endurance, Records, World Records, Guinness

I wanted to get the fastest time in the world this year, but with everything going on, it's a pretty decent swim, ... I knew I was under world record pace. You could tell by the crowd. You can always tell at these meets when something good is going on because of the crowd.

- Michael Phelps

topic: Swimming, Years, Records, World Records

When you talk about world record times, you have to understand that everything must be perfect the weather, the course, the temperature. It is not always enough to be in good shape.

- Haile Gebrselassie

topic: Weather, Perfect, Records, World Records

Methamphetamine is so Flowers for Algernon: All that super-human cerebral ability fades to limited physical activities like stapling carpet scraps to the wall or masturbation antics worthy of The Guinness Book of World Records.

- Clint Catalyst

topic: Wall, Flower, Book, Methamphetamine, World Records

Well, it's such a record that you can only compare it with Bob Beamon's long-jump world record set in the 1968 Olympics in Mexico. At that time it seemed that it would never be broken. Tendulkar's 50 Test centuries is one such records which doesn't look like being surpassed

- Sunil Gavaskar

topic: Broken, Long, Looks, Long Jump, World Records

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

topic: Self, Rejection, Records, Rejection Letters, World Records

President Obama broke a world record after he reached a million followers on Twitter in just five hours. The only guys not following Obama? His Secret Service agents. They lost track months ago.

- Jimmy Fallon

topic: Track, Guy, Secret, Secret Service, World Records

I missed the final of the World Championships in 2009, but I told the coach I would break the world record in 2010. Which I did. Then in 2011 I won the World Championships and now in 2012 it is the Olympics. That is how I have been working.

- David Rudisha

topic: Finals, Records, World, World Records

I don't know how you keep the world record holder off your team.

- Ryan Hall

topic: Team, Records, World, World Records

Well concerning the world records that I did, I think it helps a lot to me, yeah. I think it's a very individual thing because I heard some people say, like, oh I don't like it at all. But I definitely, for me it really made a big difference.

- Inge de Bruijn

topic: Thinking, Differences, People, World Records

But I'm after medals more than anything. Championships don't get taken away from you but records do, so I think I'd rather have medals at every championships rather than times. A world record would be a bonus, but I'm still only 25 in 17 days.

- Sally Pearson

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Taken, Thinking, Records, World Records

There is always anxiety before a competition and it was no different for me today. It was only in the third round, with about 40 targets left, that I realised I could match the world record score.

- Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore

topic: Anxiety, Competition, Target, World Records

I think people will be surprised at how fast they go next year. I do think world records will get broken next year.

- Aaron Peirsol

topic: Thinking, Years, People, World Records

South African schoolchildren set a world record this week by creating the world's longest clothesline. Hey, what do South Africans wash their clothes with? Apar-Tide!

- Dennis Miller

source: "The Dennis Miller Show", June 28, 2004.

topic: Clothes, Creating, Hey, World Records, Clotheslines

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

- Usain Bolt

topic: Broken, World, Records, World Records

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

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

topic: Sports, Athlete, Athletic, World Records

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

topic: Sports, Mean, Doubt, World Records, Nominating

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

topic: Sports, Mother, Athlete, World Records

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

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

topic: Sports, Eye, Goal, Sudden Death, World Records

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

topic: Sports, Believe, Race, World Records

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

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

topic: Sports, Past, Years, World Records

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

topic: Anniversary, Winning, Games, Matter Of Time, World Records

Iceland sets a world-record. The United Nations asked people from all over the world a series of questions. Iceland stuck out on one thing. When we were asked what do we believe, 90% said, 'ourselves'. I think I'm in that group. If I get into trouble, there's no God or Allah to sort me out. I have to do it myself.

- Bjork

topic: Believe, Thinking, Iceland, Questionnaires, World Records

If I could set a world record, it would be that I have 150 business partners, all with thriving businesses of their own that started with nothing and I made the difference to make them all billionaires.

- Barbara Corcoran

topic: Differences, Would Be, Records, World Records, Business Partners

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

topic: Hard Work, People, Track, World Records

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

topic: World Records, Personal Best, Bloopers

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

- David Coleman

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Running, World Records, Bloopers

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

topic: Winning, Special, Gold, Olympic Medals, World Records

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

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

topic: Book, Heart, Television, World Records, Guinness

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

topic: World Records

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

topic: Fun, Thinking, Numbers, World Records

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

source: Source: arfakarim.wordpress.com

topic: Brother, Challenges, Records, World Records

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

source: Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

topic: Thinking, Records, World, Disabled, World Records

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