Top 44 World Record Quotes

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.

I’m probably a lot more closer in the 1500m to the world record than I am in the 5000m.

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.

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

I always try to do better than I have before, so I think it would be good to break the world record.

The most important thing is winning, not breaking the world record.

I felt I was never going to beat Igor Ter-Ovanesyan or Ralph Boston because they were the joint world record holders.

I am a dreamer. And what I dream of is to become Olympic champion, world champion, world record holder.

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.

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.

I want to learn how to play an instrument. I want to break a world record. I’m just a very determined, motivated type of person.

I’d like to go out on top, preferably breaking a new world record on the Fourth of July.

I’ve set no world record.

I guess I set a world record for errors. I had a pretty good arm, see, but I didn’t have much control.

And as – funny enough, it actually became – so I’ve always wanted to be a Guinness world record holder. And believe it or not, before I made this there was not a category for world’s largest Nerf gun, but there is now.

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

I nearly failed when Virgin was in its infancy; I nearly failed in the early 1980s, and, of course, I have nearly died more than once trying to achieve a world record for boating or ballooning. But through a combination of luck and planning, both Virgin and I are still here.

When you take the world record, a lot of people are going to go out there to get you, really. I kind of enjoy that. I like being chased.

It’s easy to forget, given her scandal-tinged life and tragic death, how incredibly talented Whitney Houston was. She holds the world record as the most-awarded female act of all time, with over 415 major recognitions during her career. She is the only artist to chart seven consecutive number one songs.

In running, I know that I can train as much as I want and I’m never going to break the world record for the five miles. It’s partly genetics; I’m just not built for it. But if I worked really hard, I might be able to cut my time by half. Could I do the same thing with my mind and my well-being?

I have done 33 films in one year, for which I hold a Guinness Book World record. Plus I’ve done songs for all languages from Hindi to Malayalam, Punjabi to Telugu, and Kannada to Oriya.

No, I didn’t break a world record. No, I didn’t win by a huge margin. But it’s how you do in the battle. I’ve taken my place in history and I’m very proud of that.

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

When my world record got broken in 1999, it hurt a little bit, to say the least. But I was in a leg brace at the time and I had just had knee surgery and I couldn’t do anything about it.

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.

The Olympics is a special event and winning is very important. For me as a world record holder and world champion, the only thing I am missing is the Olympic gold medal and that is what I want to achieve in my career.

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-publication was an act of defiance at traditional publishing. But life works in strange ways.

What I will say is that there is no governing body in strongman. There’s no federation. There’s no group of people or person that overlooks the sport, or says that this is a world record, or ‘we’ll count this as a world record.’

In the Olympics, everything goes back to square one. The world champion or the world record holder or the ninth last year are fighting for the same medal, and you have got to go there like it was the first time.

If anybody wants to beat me, let them run a world record.

I have been dreaming of an outdoor world record forever. Now I want them all: the 1500, the 5000, even the 800.

For me, I’ve not really focused on a world record. I’m just trying to put a complete race together, and when I do that, then fast times will come.

I called Daley Thompson after the Games of ’84, when he won. He’d had this phenomenal decathlon for nine events – and then he went out there and jogged the 1,500 meters and missed the world record by, like, three points.

I’m the first from Ethiopia getting 1500-meter world record; that is amazing.

Until maybe my coworker makes a six-and-a-half-foot Nerf gun, I’m the proud holder of a world record.

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.

Breaking the world record has always been in the works. I just need the right conditions and I can make it.

You don’t want people thinking you’re a cheat just because you’re really fast and have broken the world record by a second.

The world record will come to me when I run the world record race. I’m just trying to perfect my race. I’m looking for perfection.

I’m very happy to have set a world record in Tallinn. Estonians sure do love athletics and combined events!

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.

I am just going to try to run my personal best. If it comes as a world record, I would appreciate it. But I would treat it as a personal best.

I always saw hurdles as a form of art, because it’s very individual. One technique that may produce a world record for one guy could be useless for another guy.

In Gujarat, we had the world record of largest number of chess games in a single venue – 20,500 – and in Tamil Nadu, I have been emphasizing on the positives of chess to the authorities.