#world record

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

— Larry David

#challenges #embraces #i #person #records

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

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

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

— Ryan Hall

#how #i #keep #know #off

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

#business #business partners #businesses #could #difference

I certainly didn't think of a world record in the first 50 meters because I was simply too slow for that. ↗

— Otylia Jedrzejczak

#certainly #first #i #meters #record

I've set no world record. ↗

— Marion Jones

#record #set #world #world record

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

#aside #become #been #break #career

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

#broken #games #going #hope #i