#world record

Many people know that Ethiopia is poor. When I break a world record, maybe people get to know something else about Ethiopia, something good. We can't make planes or cars, we don't have the materials. We do what we can. ↗

— Haile Gebrselassie

#break #cars #else #ethiopia #get

When we race in London a world record will be the last thing on our minds. ↗

— Haile Gebrselassie

#london #minds #our #race #record

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

#break #dawn #did #fact #great

The ultimate would be to compete in a couple more Olympics, hopefully break some world records and wind up my sports career with a couple of years in the WNBA. ↗

— Marion Jones

#career #compete #couple #hopefully #more

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

#favorite #gold #gold medal #i #medal

It's something special to break the world record at the Olympics. ↗

— David Rudisha

#olympics #record #something #special #world

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

— Usain Bolt

#feat #great #me #record #world

I've set no world record. ↗

— Marion Jones

#record #set #world #world record

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

#break #could #done #get #gold

I always think it's because of you know hard work, hard training. And if Susie's training hard, you know, why can't I train hard to get a world record. I'm doing the same thing. ↗

— Inge de Bruijn

#because #doing #get #hard #hard work