Usain Bolt Quotes

I am doing what I do [athletics] because the fans love it and it's a part of me, it's my personality. I think people come to see you run fast, but they also come to see a show, a performance. They want to see a personality, and that's what I give them.

Usain Bolt

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• I'm not as goal obsessed as I am process obsessed.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Goal
  • Process
  • Obsessed

• Winning the World Cup was very special because it meant so much to so many. One thing about our country that is constant is cricket. The smile it brought to people's faces was the thing I shall always remember. It reminded me, reminded all of us, of our importance to the lives of the Indian people less lucky than we are.

  

  Mahendra Singh Dhoni
  • People
  • World
  • Country

• Let's help those in prison maintain positive connections with their community. If we truly want re-entry to be successful, and we do, people need to come back to a place that still feels like home.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • People
  • Home
  • Help

• I tend to deal with characters who are sort of at that same point of wrestling with, 'Who am I going to be as an adult? What do I believe? How am I defining myself in the context of my culture and my peer groups, my family?'

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Believe
  • Family
  • Culture

• As an actor, you read so many scripts and parts written for Asian-specific characters, and you see a lot of stereotypes and a lot of one-note characters, especially in comedy.

  

  Randall Park
  • Comedy
  • See
  • Stereotypes

• If I could work with Joan Van Ark every day for the rest of my life I would.

  

  Ted Shackelford
  • Life
  • Work
  • Day

• I look forward to a time when my career in a place where I can get out of Los Angeles and find a nice small town like I grew up in to raise my family.

  

  Patrick Dempsey
  • Up
  • Time
  • Family

• For me, great music doesn't just have to fall into one category or one genre and I love appreciating all kinds of music.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Music
  • Genre
  • Kinds

• Skysurfing is skydiving with a board on the feet. You can imagine with this big surface of a skysurfing board, there is a lot of force, a lot of power. Of course, I can use this power, for example, for nice spinning - we call it 'helicopter moves.'

  

  Ueli Gegenschatz
  • Power
  • You
  • Nice

• Fiji had experienced the ordeal of two military coups.

  

  Kamisese Mara
  • Military
  • Two
  • Fiji

• Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Fall
  • Woman
  • Grace

• Being famous was extremely disappointing for me. When I became famous it was a complete drag and it is still a complete drag.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Me
  • Famous
  • Disappointing

• What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.

  

  Wendell Phillips
  • Mind
  • Done
  • War

• All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Beginning
  • Idea
  • Riches

• No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Money
  • Better
  • Satisfaction

• We have to balance the lineality of the known universe with the nonlineality of the unknown universe.

  

  Carlos Castaneda
  • Universe
  • Balance
  • Unknown

• The only thing documentary filmmakers have to work with, at least the way I make films, is trust. That's been true of everyone from James Carville and George Stephanopoulos to the kids in 'American High' to the soldiers in 'Military Diaries' to Anna Wintour to Dick Cheney.

  

  R. J. Cutler
  • Work
  • Kids
  • American

• Human beings are of such nature that they should have not only material facilities but spiritual sustenance as well. Without spiritual sustenance, it is difficult to get and maintain peace of mind.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Mind
  • Nature
  • Spiritual

• There are horses people use for competition, and if they don't perform well or go lame, then people ask the vet to put them down to get the insurance money. And my vet knows I love horses, so he gives them to me.

  

  Daryl Hannah
  • People
  • Money
  • Competition

• I think the sensibilities of having grown up in Upstate New York and the concerns, the fears, the hopes of the people there are reflected all over the country.

  

  David Muir
  • People
  • Up
  • Country

• I don't know if it's ever OK for someone to be selfish. Perhaps there's a time and place to be self-centered, but I think selfish never wins the race.

  

  Jessica Capshaw
  • Time
  • Selfish

• Success on the front of women's rights will look like a world not only with obvious advances - where no girl is denied access to education, for instance - but also one with more subtle changes in how we regard gender and gender stereotypes.

  

  Adora Svitak
  • World
  • Women
  • Success

• I am doing what I do [athletics] because the fans love it and it's a part of me, it's my personality. I think people come to see you run fast, but they also come to see a show, a performance. They want to see a personality, and that's what I give them.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Running