Quotes About Record-breaking

The vulnerability in that smile was the surprising element- the vulnerability of our record-breaking muscleman faced with all the crudeness it takes to stay alive. The smile's refusal to recognize, let alone to sanction in himself, the savage obstinacy that seven decades of surviving requires of a man.

It's very hard to reflect properly when you're still playing but the hundreds one - when I got my 23rd in Kolkata - felt the most special because it broke a benchmark that had stood for a very long time. It felt good to do something no Englishman has done before.

I like to break the records, break the limits.

The London games mark the 24th anniversary of my winning two golds and setting the world record in the heptathlon. Someone is going to want it records are made to be broken - it's only a matter of time. I hope mine will outlive me.

Four goals in (16) minutes. Literally I don't even know how that happens especially in a World Cup final.

I wanted to do something nobody ever did. This goes hand in hand with my goal of changing swimming.

They'd pulled off the biggest single-season turnaround, a forty-two-win improvement, in the history of the sport.

Denis O'B rings to say that the first-week take at the Plaza is £40,000. 'Forty thousand pounds!' Denis incredulates in tones of almost religious fervency. It is impressive and has beaten the previous highest-ever take at the Plaza (which was for Jaws) by £8,000, with seven fewer performances. So all the publicity has had maximum effect.

Papu Sanzgiri asked him, 'Who is going to break Brian Lara's 400?' Sehwag said, 'Please tell Sachin to do it. I cannot bat for two days. I can only bat for a day and a half.

With upwards of a million people attending, give yourself over to the crowd and join a massive 100,000-strong conga line like the one that set the world's record in 1988.