Rudisha David Quotes

#1. My family means everything to me and the birth of our daughter has enabled me to have more focus on my career and every time I compete, I dedicate my success to them.

David Rudisha

#2. We were forever one earthquake away from losing it all.

Alison Singh Gee

#3. My focus in 2010 was on just running fast races. My focus in 2011 was for winning at the World Championships. This year has been a combination of the two so we'll see what kind of time it brings.

David Rudisha

#4. When I was a little boy, I always wanted to run. I loved competing with my friends.

David Rudisha

#5. 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

#6. No one is self-sufficient.
And it's not a one-way thing-
-the generosity of spirit from one side provokes a response in kind from the other side.

Desmond Tutu

#7. New Orleans. Born and raised. I lived there until I was 19.

Patricia Clarkson

#8. I knew I would be running with so many people watching all over the world because of him. People love Bolt. He has many fans out there because of his great achievements and breaking world records in Olympics. I've done the same and it's a great honour. I'm happy and I'm happy for him.

David Rudisha

#9. Even if the pace is slow in championships, you can still sprint well and still power in the last 200, which is always the main part when the race is slow.

David Rudisha

#10. It's not good to focus on one person or two persons about being your rivals. The important thing is just to train hard and be ready for the competition and to prepare for the races so that in case of anything that comes out, you are able to handle it.

David Rudisha

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

David Rudisha

#12. Going to the Olympics as a Maasai I want to make them proud because, after the warm welcome they gave me when I went back and being their leader, I want to also be the warrior in the Olympics. That will be something good because that will be the first Olympic gold medal for the Maasai.

David Rudisha

#13. When I am training, I don't want any disturbances. I have to be focused, not losing sight of my targets. I cannot evade the fact that I am now well known and I have made already some money, but you can learn how to deal with it.

David Rudisha

#14. To understand love, use the heart, not the brain.
To understand the mind, use the love, not the brain.

Debasish Mridha

#15. 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.

David Rudisha

#16. It's not a democracy here, it's the Middle East.

Silvan Shalom

#17. Consumers, unlike voters, expect an immediate response to their concerns; and companies, unlike governments, do not have the luxury of a mid-term lull.

Noreena Hertz

#18. But no one was asking me. I was here to do a job, and gray steel lockers or pale peach jukebox was no business of mine.

Haruki Murakami

#19. Don't worry. It'll never happen again. You know me, I do date occasionally, but I usually spend at least a few normal, boring days with a guy before we rock the house down. Of course, no one ever rocked my house down the way this guy did. He leveled the mother to its foundations. (Sunshine)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#20. The weather plays a very big role. I have run very few races in the raining and the cold.

David Rudisha

#21. That's it ... I'm completely giving up on boys and concentrating on staying alive.

Samantha Young

#22. Surfing is my passion because I love being active on the water.

Sarah McLachlan

#23. I was still young when I missed Beijing. I was favourite to win a medal but I knew I had time. My coach advised me to stay at school and finish my exams. Even if I had gone and won the Olympics, I might not have handled the pressure. So I moved on.

David Rudisha

#24. I realised I could run after finding out that my dad used to run and it gave me the morale that if he did it then maybe I could also run.

David Rudisha

#25. Fantastic, I am very happy to be the fastest 800 metres runner in the world.

David Rudisha

#26. You can't succeed in beating the insurgents unless you can convince the people that they can be protected.

Rand Beers

#27. I can say when it comes to championships it's a tactical race and normally you don't have a pacesetter who can set a pace for fast times. That is why you see that obviously we fall around 1:43 because that is the most favorable one can run from the front.

David Rudisha

#28. Races always are good to show where you are reaching in your training as well as to keep you sharpened. Every race, in my program, I put it in a special way like a ladder, climbing up slowly and slowly to the next one. I see where my training is, and that is like a test.

David Rudisha

#29. Billy Konchellah with his World Championship titles, Paul Ereng with his Olympic gold and Wilson Kipketer with his World records are my role models.

David Rudisha

#30. I was ready in 2008 for the Olympic Games but unfortunately I missed the Kenyan trials with a thigh injury. I watched those Olympics but it was tough to watch. But it was good in the end because a Kenyan, Wilfred Bungei, was the champion.

David Rudisha

#31. Sometimes when you get disappointment it makes you stronger.

David Rudisha

#32. My father's encouragement is what has brought me this far, because when I grew up I wanted to be like him, and I knew I had that ability to become an athlete. Being an Olympian is one of the greatest things, and being an Olympic gold medallist is one of the most prestigious titles in the world.

David Rudisha

#33. I love my tribe, the Maasai are very good people and humble.

David Rudisha