Top 40 Hima Das Quotes

What I think is about running faster and faster, and I believe that will translate into medals.

The ultimate dream of an athlete is to compete in the Olympics. For us athletes, that is the zenith. There is nothing beyond that.

Bringing a medal for the country is the biggest achievement, and that is why I am very happy.

The sport is my first priority because it has given me everything.

Hima is Hima only. I haven’t changed.

My father was a footballer, and he has inspired me.

Our village is very small, so I wasn’t surprised when I heard some negative comments from my neighbours on my interest in sports. But nothing mattered, as I always knew what I was doing and why I was doing it.

I am not a star.

I live in a joint family with 17 members under one roof. My father is an MA, but he didn’t get a job, because all his certificates got destroyed when our house caught fire. So my father took up farming – fish farming and vegetable farming.

The biggest challenge of my career has always been to improve my timing, and it will always be so.

For every athlete, Olympics is the target, but mine is a little different. I am focusing on improving my timing; that’s what I think about.

The pressure has increased; I have to practise more and keep performing better.

Sometimes I feel I don’t know even know how to run.

I don’t show tension and nervousness, but I know how fast my heartbeat races before a race.

Everything happens at one step at a time.

I believe in time and in God. Nothing else bothers me.

I want to thank my parents and my coaches, who brought me out of Guwahati.

I didn’t expect I will get the Arjuna at 18 years. I thought 19.

I am a positive person, and I want to look ahead in life and do something for my parents and the country.

Whatever the rules are, we have to follow them. I have no problem with it.

I don’t worry about timings or what somebody else is doing in another lane.

I just know how to run, and that is what I do.

I am not running after gold medals; I am running after time. And once I get that, gold medals will run after me.

My paternal uncle and aunt have jobs, and they are the ones who feed the family with a regular income.

A player needs recovery time, and it isn’t possible to recover from one race in an hour.

People have now started recognizing me as well as my family.

I know my family’s condition and how we struggled. But the Almighty has something for everybody.

I am living a dream.

Even Sachin used to get ducks during his career. There are ups and downs in every athlete’s career.

When there’s training, I will focus only on training.

When I was in Class II, we used to walk about 5 km. to school. I did not know of Olympics or even athletics then. One day, a friend went in a car and left me behind. I was so angry, I wanted to run and outrace the car. I ran so fast that I tripped and fractured my knee.

My attitude is different. And no one understands me the way my friends do.

My biggest support and backbone have been my friends.

I used to run barefoot in my village some time back. Now, I have a branded shoe with my name on it.

I hope I will get a chance to compete in the Olympics.

Besides my father, who used to be a footballer at the local level, it is Messi for whom I started to play football.

I am still the same village girl from Dhing who used to help my father in the paddy field, help mother in household chores, run for hours on the streets of Dhing, play football with my Mon Jai group friends.

I was naughty but never demanding. I never asked my parents for shoes or tracksuits. I was happy with what I had.

Wherever they send us to practice, we will go.

I don’t fear anything.