Juantorena Quotes

#1. And there goes Juantorena down the back straight, opening his legs and showing his class.

David Coleman

#2. My main point in this regard was to compete for my country and my people and to receive the support of the entire Cuban society, to carry my flag in whatever competition I was in, the Olympic Games, Pan-American Games.

Alberto Juantorena

#3. One of the gaps in our international development efforts is the provision of global public goods - that is, goods or conditions we need that no individual or country can secure on their own, such as halting global warming, financial stability and peace and security.

Anna Lindh

#4. We want to promote the great qualities of athletics - and maintain its integrity - all over the world.

Alberto Juantorena

#5. The most important part of this is to prepare the athlete for life in general and then be able to compete.

Alberto Juantorena

#6. I love people. People are lovely creatures. I'm one myself [so] I love to see people happy.

Tom Hardy

#7. If we carry on filling up the calendar, we keep on pushing the athlete, we shorten the athletes longevity. The risk is to shorten a career that could have lasted 10 years because the athlete is burnt out.

Alberto Juantorena

#8. In Cuba we use our champions to promote the sport.

Alberto Juantorena

#9. I run in practically every single road race in my country, 5k, 10k just to promote the sport.

Alberto Juantorena

#10. We are just not made up to be middle distance runners.

Alberto Juantorena

#11. But a human, in its own small way, was a kind of miraculous achievement, in mathematical terms.

Matt Haig

#12. Every human life had its pattern that had to be worked out slowly to its ultimate conclusion.

Irving Stone

#13. We do not use managers, we are the representatives of our athletes, and that is why I am deeply involved in athletics, I follow our athletes careers from start to finish, 100% all the way.

Alberto Juantorena

#14. We need to be aware of all aspects: To check how they travel, how they eat, the competition conditions.

Alberto Juantorena

#15. We want to make sure our athletes have a future once their athletics careers are over.

Alberto Juantorena

#16. Anyone who attempts anything original in the world must expect a bit of ridicule.

Alberto Juantorena

#17. And then you have the responsibility and the duty of being good examples to youngsters, not smoke, training hard, go to bed early, don't drink alcohol, don't take drugs, it's very important to have a policy for educating against doping.

Alberto Juantorena

#18. Be very strong ... be very methodical in your life if you want to be a champion.

Alberto Juantorena

#19. I am always fighting inside the Council to get the message across that at each competition venue, we should send somebody to inspect and to make sure the athletes will be looked after in a correct manner.

Alberto Juantorena

#20. The medal is not for yourself. It couldn't be done without the support and help of my people, runners, and coaches

Alberto Juantorena

#21. War, hatred, and violence all spring from one infernal idea: that one person, race, creed, or culture is better than another.

Laurence Overmire

#22. You never know the limit of a human being.

Alberto Juantorena

#23. Then I received support from the Government to compete for my country, and to represent Cuba in competition.

Alberto Juantorena

#24. Don't depend on someone else's plumages to define your beauty. You have brighter and beautiful feathers. Just fly with them!

Israelmore Ayivor

#25. I love music, and outside of work my family keeps me very busy, I have five children to keep track of.

Alberto Juantorena

#26. My loneliness turned itself inside out and I grew myself a kind of perverse pride.

Phyllis Gotlieb

#27. Society is better off without certain people.

Bernhard Goetz