Break Your Record Quotes

#1. Having a track record to live up to and the history of successes had become a hindrance. It becomes harder to break out of what people expect you to do.

Paul Simon

#2. 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?

Stefan Sagmeister

#3. I fight myself. I don't fight to break Ali's record or Sugar Ray Robinson's record. I fight to please myself. I know in my heart where I'm rated. I didn't fight in Ali's era. This is my era.

Floyd Mayweather Jr.

#4. 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

#5. Every day I break my own personal record for number of days I have been alive.

George Carlin

#6. I will never sign to a major record label again. If, by some mega fluke, a record of mine looked like it might break big, I'd try and do it via an indie or somehow license it. I'm not having my music owned by those corporate bastards again.

Malcolm Wilson

#7. I got married and decided I wanted to do a dance record, and I didn't ever expect for it to be what it was or for the 'No Doubt' thing to be such a long break, but it was one of those things where you just had to sort of follow your inspiration.

Gwen Stefani

#8. I want to inspire the next generation. I want to be in mission control with someone younger than me wanting to break my record.

Felix Baumgartner

#9. I missed the final of the World Championships in 2009, but I told the coach I would break the world record in 2010. Which I did. Then in 2011 I won the World Championships and now in 2012 it is the Olympics. That is how I have been working.

David Rudisha

#10. If you can't win, make the one ahead of you break the record.

John McKeithen

#11. Strive hard to be among the top performers. To do this, create a standard. Go higher than this standard. Set another higher standard; surpass it and repeat the process.

Israelmore Ayivor

#12. 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.

Ryan Lochte

#13. The four of us couldn't have made a record with the time left over when we were shooting the show. We were on stage from 7.30 in the morning 'til 7 at night. Later on, when there was a break from filming, and we were sick of doing it the old way.

Peter Tork

#14. Once you have a felony conviction on your record, one of the most difficult things to do is to break the cycle of recidivism.

Hill Harper

#15. Everything happened very quickly in my career. It was a very great honor for me to break Jim Clarks record (as youngest champion),

Emerson Fittipaldi

#16. A lot of people thought my career was over. If you're not releasing records, then something must be wrong. Either the record company doesn't like your music, or you've been dropped. It has to something negative. It's not like you wanted to take a break, or want some balance, or smell the roses.

Maxwell

#17. I feared the verdict of the watch, where I either lost the race against time that day or would lose it soon by making the record even harder to break. The time trap had snapped shut.

Joe Henderson

#18. It's something special to break the world record at the Olympics.

David Rudisha

#19. Take your current success as the beginning of your journey and you will keep breaking your own records.

Israelmore Ayivor

#20. My whole thing is, haters are gonna hate, but haters are also going to click on your YouTube video just to watch it, so I don't really care. You helped me break the record. Even if you were watching just to hate on me, and now I hold the record, so I win.

Miley Cyrus

#21. I developed the Clock Theory to help me time records; you know, spin the record back two revolutions or whatever and then play the break, spin the other one back two, play, like that.

Grandmaster Flash

#22. If everything works out for me & if it's my special day I'll try to break AB de Villiers record for the fastest hundred.

Shahid Afridi

#23. An important document of the paper of record at a crucial, make-or-break juncture in its long, glorious history, and a love letter to the dying art form that is the great American newspaper.

Nathan Rabin

#24. I've got to learn something from my mistakes instead of establishing a new record to break.

Carrie Fisher

#25. Challenge is the core and the mainspring of all human activity. If there's an ocean, we cross it; if there's a disease, we cure it; if there's a wrong, we right it; if there's a record, we break it; and finally, if there's a mountain, we climb it.

James Ramsey Ullman

#26. All I know is, I don't want to stop coaching, and I don't want to stop winning, so we're gonna break the record unless I die.

Bear Bryant

#27. Maybe I'm not a great man but I damn well want to break the record.

Roger Maris

#28. Jasnah was never wrong."
"This would be a storming bad time for her to break her record,

Brandon Sanderson

#29. I thought I would break the scoring record when I got to 40 goals by the age of 27 or 28, but then Fabio Capello took over and he never picked me again.

Michael Owen

#30. I finished touring the last record and I started recording new .I never really left the bubble, which is I think a good thing. I was just very focused. Maybe I should have taken a break or something, and not done such a long push.

Andrew Bird

#31. I'm a frustrated actor. My ... goal is to beat Alfred Hitchcock in the number of cameos. I'm going to try to break his record.

Stan Lee

#32. At a time of record energy prices, when we are trying to break the very addiction the president talked about in his speech, it does not make any sense to cut funding for energy efficiency programs and research.

Bob Menendez

#33. If you ever want to know why I'm not on a record label, look at 'The X Factor!' Honestly, of all the people that strive to break barriers in music and do good things and write great lyrics, not one of them would ever pass the first round on any of these competitions.

John Lydon

#34. The shoes had come to define him as he proceeded to break every sprinting record at New Bedford High School and other high schools across the Commonwealth, earning himself the nickname Fast Eddie.

Elin Hilderbrand

#35. To jump and break the sound barrier will not be a mere record breaking experience or another extreme event that ends once the mission is accomplished.

Felix Baumgartner

#36. 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.

Alyson Stoner

#37. I don't want to be Babe Ruth. He was a great ballplayer. I'm not trying to replace him. The record is there and damn right I want to break it, but that isn't replacing Babe Ruth.

Roger Maris

#38. I have been skiing since I was in school, but I'm not great. I am never going to break an Olympic record, I just want to go down the hills, on red or blue runs, but not ... black.

Alexander McQueen

#39. Excellence is to keep beating your own standards every day. If you don't have a standard for yourself, you have no records to beat; and if you don't have any record to beat, you can't excel. What is your current standard?

Israelmore Ayivor

#40. The whole point is, give me a break with the standards. You go to the average jazz label and suggest a record and they want to know which standards you're going to play. I'm saying let's break the formula.

Branford Marsalis

#41. I don't know where Hank Aaron will break Ruth's record but I can tell you one thing - ten years from the day he hits it three million people will say they were there.

Eddie Mathews

#42. Breckin, this is Holder. Holder is not my boyfriend, but if I catch him trying to break the record for best first kiss with another girl, then he'll soon be my not breathing non-boyfriend.

Colleen Hoover