Quotes About Victory

When you take the world record, a lot of people are going to go out there to get you, really. I kind of enjoy that. I like being chased.

I called Daley Thompson after the Games of '84, when he won. He'd had this phenomenal decathlon for nine events - and then he went out there and jogged the 1,500 meters and missed the world record by, like, three points.

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.

Athens is a great place for me. It is my second home. It's where I won my first world championship medal, it's where I set my world record.

Rivalries don't necessarily mean races being close at major championships. I had a rivalry with Butch Reynolds for many years. I won all the races, but Butch was the world record holder before I came into the sport, he was extremely talented and he was the only other man running 43 seconds.

It ain't over till it's over.

Morse conquered his electrical difficulties although he was only a painter, and I don't intend to give in either till all is completed.

You see that even the enemy did not dare to declare war against us till they had seized our generals, for they were sensible that, while we had commanders and yielded obedience to them, we were able to conquer them; but, having seized our commanders, they concluded that we should, from a want of command and discipline, be destroyed.

You have to fight till the last minute of the last game if you want to win it.

One may summon his philosophy when they are beaten in battle, not till then.

I didn't pass my driving test till I was 38!

I'm not losing no time soon, or ever, till I retire.

Till 2010, there was one national award for Best Music Direction. I have received it thrice - for 'Sagara Sangamam,' 'Sindhu Bhairavi,' and 'Rudraveena.'

I am a man who always likes to win and to defend the shirt of Real Madrid till the very end.

Our warfighting doctrine is that we don't want to be in a fair fight, and we want the fight to always be tilted in our favor.

I want to fight Tim Elliott. I want to fight him.

Tim Sylvia is 6-foot-8, 265, and Fedor beat him, so that showed that size doesn't make a big difference.

I showed my chin was fine when I fought Tim Sylvia in the Philippines, when our fight was a no contest. He landed a good straight right hand at the end of the first round and I was fine. I survived and knocked him out.

When I found out I was fighting Tim Sylvia it was the best day of my life. I don't like him, I don't respect him and I will have no problem kicking him in the head and stomping on his body. It will be fun.

I hear it all the time, people always on my back about quitting or not doing stuff. Then first time in the Superdome, lights are real bright, whenever I got a chance, I made a play.

I have seen good times and bad times, struggle and success.

The number of times I have fallen down is the number of times I have gotten up.

Sports is the only entertainment where, no matter how many times you go back, you never know the ending.

I want it all. I want the Pepsi endorsement. I want the arena shows. I want Times Square!