Sprinter Quotes

#1. Carl Lewis wasn't a great sprinter. He could only run fast for like 9 seconds.

Serge Ibaka

#2. I'm not much of a distance runner, more of a sprinter.

Carrie Jones

#3. It's always been too slow for me. Playing. The pace of things. I'm a fast sprinter. The trouble was, after playing in the group for a few months, I couldn't reach that point.

Syd Barrett

#4. I think animation is like running a marathon, and making a movie is like a 100 meter sprint. The question is: are you a marathon man or are you a sprinter? I realized that I was more of a sprinter than a marathon man. With a long, long project, I get bored easily.

Marjane Satrapi

#5. I'm a decent sprinter and I can gun a motorcycle from zero to suicidal in less than ten seconds.

Mira Grant

#6. Life is often compared to a marathon, but I think it is more like being a sprinter; long stretches of hard work punctuated by brief moments in which we are given the opportunity to perform at our best.

Michael Johnson

#7. The next great decathlete is going to be a runner. I still feel that a Dan O'Brien, if he was a runner and not a sprinter, could have gone over 9,000 points.

Caitlyn Jenner

#8. You learn to run like a sprinter, you'll be a great distance runner

Alberto Salazar

#9. No one is born a sprinter. We all learn to push ourselves up from the floor and then balance before taking that first, wobbly step. It is an individual choice where to go from there.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#10. I'm Jamaican, man. I'm Jamaican first. You gotta understand that's where I'm from. That's home. That you can never take away from me. I'm a Jamaican-born Canadian sprinter.

Donovan Bailey

#11. He took it out like a sprinter, and brought it home like a distance swimmer.

Jennifer Lane

#12. I like to think of myself as a pretty good athlete, I don't think I'm a great sprinter, but 200, 400, maybe 800. I won't say excel in them, but I'd do pretty good.

Grant Hill

#13. When I hit New York in 1972, I thought I was a sprinter. I thought that I would star in a Broadway show and do a movie and win an Oscar by the time I was 25. It turned out that I'm a long distance runner.

Beth Grant

#14. A couple of years ago, I had my DNA sequencing done, and it is all anonymous. When the results came back, my musculature type said, 'most likely to be a sprinter.'

Aimee Mullins

#15. I was a sprinter - there were no long-term goals,

Carrie Brownstein

#16. Double gold means I'm king of the sprints. It shows I'm the best sprinter around.

Justin Gatlin

#17. As a kid, I was a pretty good little sprinter.

Mary Lou Retton

#18. I am a sprinter, and I love to go fast. It's very difficult for me to be patient and follow a race strategy or conserve energy.

Allyson Felix

#19. I don't have a sprinter's body.

Allyson Felix

#20. We crave instant success these days. If you are a really good sprinter and long jumper, you don't want to spend two or three years on a whole new set of events. You're used to doing well and it's difficult to give that up.

Daley Thompson

#21. You need to become more than one type of athlete. You have to be a sprinter, a weight man and a distance guy all in one.

Dan O'Brien

#22. I always wanted to be a sprinter.

Michael Johnson

#23. Propaganda is a sprinter, but truth is a long-distance runner.

Ernest Partridge

#24. Of all the stars whom I worked with, I think Steve knew better what worked for him on the screen than any other. He had such a sense of what he could register, and that helped a lot in terms of shaping the character and the script.

Robert Wise

#25. I tell the kids, somebody's gotta win, somebody's gotta lose. Just don't fight about it. Just try to get better.

Yogi Berra

#26. Every now and then, you get people who tend to forget what this country is about, which is a melting pot of races and cultures and freedom of speech.

Maynard James Keenan

#27. Spell check exists for a reason.

Sophia Amoruso

#28. I think a good director casts a film so that the actors bring a lot to the table.

Debbie Allen

#29. I thought about majoring in Math, Chemistry and English, but Math had the fewest requirements, so I went with it. I knew I wanted to teach, and Math was my field, so I studied Math.

Tom Lehrer

#30. We cannot imagine events that are connected non-causally and are capable of a non-causal explanation. But that does not mean that such events do not exist.

Carl Jung

#31. When pretending starts, growth stops

Renae A. Sauter

#32. Youth asks no greater privilege than to fight its own battles. It is mistaken kindness to shield - it weakens one in the years to come.

Myrtle Reed

#33. Movies are very hard to make, to get it all to come together. So many people have their say in what the end product of films are.

Andy Garcia

#34. I can't even tolerate my own playing on electric keyboards. It's not about the musical ideas - the sound itself is toxic. It's like eating plastic broccoli.

Keith Jarrett

#35. The path people know, is not the path of liberation. It is the path of the worldly life. The path of liberation is not one of imagination. It is a pure path. Where there are no worries, no externally created problems. There is bliss of the Self (samadhi) amidst all external problems.

Dada Bhagwan

#36. I can wear a baseball cap; I am entitled to wear a baseball cap. I am genetically pre-disposed to wear a baseball cap, whereas most English people look wrong in a baseball cap.

Bill Bryson