Top 40 Sprinter Quotes

I always wanted to be a sprinter.

I don’t have a sprinter’s body.

I’m 100% a sprinter… an old school one, not one of these new guys that can climb and sprint.

A strained hamstring is a muscle tear and very easy to take care of with proper therapy. The greatest problem for a sprinter coming back from a hamstring injury is getting yourself to a point where you are confident mentally that all the muscles are going to be firing.

I was a runner in Delhi‘s Army Public School. I started running when I was in class four and became the fastest sprinter in school and zone competitions by the time I reached class eight.

I don’t have any close friends that are my competitors. I think that’s just the nature of being a sprinter.

I’m a sprinter man. We don’t jog; we don’t walk. It’s full-out. It’s big engines. You don’t take a car that has 600 horsepower for a cross-country drive.

We all have limitations. I don’t have the right genes to be an Olympic weightlifter. I don’t have the right genetics to be an Olympic sprinter. Or gymnast. Sure, if I trained my whole life, perhaps I could have become fairly decent in those sports.

I believe the friendship of the Games still exists. There is a tremendous camaraderie and atmosphere at the Olympic and Commonwealth Games – where else could you go and sit down and have breakfast with a Russian weightlifter, an East German sprinter, and an Indian fencer and talk about different cultures and problems?

Sometimes I can’t sleep at night because I’m so excited to work on sprinting the next day, because I’m such a bad sprinter.

Life is often compared to a marathon, but I think it is more like being a sprinter; long stretches of hard work punctuated by brief moments in which we are given the opportunity to perform at our best.

For theater I am like a long-distance runner. For movies I am a sprinter! Same playing field, different approach.

I think animation is like running a marathon, and making a movie is like a 100 meter sprint. The question is: are you a marathon man or are you a sprinter? I realized that I was more of a sprinter than a marathon man. With a long, long project, I get bored easily.

We crave instant success these days. If you are a really good sprinter and long jumper, you don’t want to spend two or three years on a whole new set of events. You’re used to doing well and it’s difficult to give that up.

A lot of sprinters aren’t football players. I’m a football player. That’s the difference between me and a sprinter. My knowledge of the game. I’m totally different than any other track guy.

I’m Jamaican, man. I’m Jamaican first. You gotta understand that’s where I’m from. That’s home. That you can never take away from me. I’m a Jamaican-born Canadian sprinter.

The next great decathlete is going to be a runner. I still feel that a Dan O’Brien, if he was a runner and not a sprinter, could have gone over 9,000 points.

I am a sprinter, and I love to go fast. It’s very difficult for me to be patient and follow a race strategy or conserve energy.

I’m 34, and I’ll be the oldest sprinter ever on a podium. I’m just happy to be here.

You need to become more than one type of athlete. You have to be a sprinter, a weight man and a distance guy all in one.

As a kid, I was a pretty good little sprinter.

I like to think of myself as a pretty good athlete, I don’t think I’m a great sprinter, but 200, 400, maybe 800. I won‘t say excel in them, but I’d do pretty good.

I think animation is like running a marathon, and making a movie is like a 100 meter sprint. The question is: are you a marathon man or are you a sprinter? I realized that I was more of a sprinter than a marathon man. With a long, long project, I get bored easily.

I was really active athletically, definitely. I was a hurdler, a sprinter. I played basketball for years. I was a serious athlete.

It’s not a sprinter’s approach. It’s more like a long-distance thing. You can stick around a lot longer if you kind of slow-play it.

When you win sprints, you’re a great sprinter, but when you win a great one-day race, you’ve proved you’re a great rider.

I don’t have any close friends that are my competitors. I think that’s just the nature of being a sprinter.

Sometimes I can’t sleep at night because I’m so excited to work on sprinting the next day, because I’m such a bad sprinter.

It’s always been too slow for me. Playing. The pace of things. I’m a fast sprinter. The trouble was, after playing in the group for a few months, I couldn’t reach that point.

A lot of people think track, you just run, that’s all you do. No. There’s a lot of technical aspects to it as well. A sprinter is not just going to get out of the blocks and start running. You do that, you’re going to get embarrassed every time.

I was a runner in Delhi‘s Army Public School. I started running when I was in class four and became the fastest sprinter in school and zone competitions by the time I reached class eight.

When I hit New York in 1972, I thought I was a sprinter. I thought that I would star in a Broadway show and do a movie and win an Oscar by the time I was 25. It turned out that I’m a long distance runner.

A strained hamstring is a muscle tear and very easy to take care of with proper therapy. The greatest problem for a sprinter coming back from a hamstring injury is getting yourself to a point where you are confident mentally that all the muscles are going to be firing.

As a sprinter, body weight was never an issue for me, not like the long distance riders who have to be so careful.

It’s always been too slow for me. Playing. The pace of things. I’m a fast sprinter. The trouble was, after playing in the group for a few months, I couldn’t reach that point.

When you win sprints, you’re a great sprinter, but when you win a great one-day race, you’ve proved you’re a great rider.

Life is often compared to a marathon, but I think it is more like being a sprinter; long stretches of hard work punctuated by brief moments in which we are given the opportunity to perform at our best.

For theater I am like a long-distance runner. For movies I am a sprinter! Same playing field, different approach.

We all have limitations. I don’t have the right genes to be an Olympic weightlifter. I don’t have the right genetics to be an Olympic sprinter. Or gymnast. Sure, if I trained my whole life, perhaps I could have become fairly decent in those sports.

A lot of people think track, you just run, that’s all you do. No. There’s a lot of technical aspects to it as well. A sprinter is not just going to get out of the blocks and start running. You do that, you’re going to get embarrassed every time.