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Quotes About Record

Think how weird profit margins are: We've got high unemployment and financial crises - and world record profit margins. People think the American market is very cheap. We don't. The market quite incorrectly gives full credit to today's earnings.
~ Jeremy Grantham
In Gujarat, we had the world record of largest number of chess games in a single venue - 20,500 - and in Tamil Nadu, I have been emphasizing on the positives of chess to the authorities.
~ Viswanathan Anand
I guess I set a world record for errors. I had a pretty good arm, see, but I didn't have much control.
~ Mordecai Brown
I felt I was never going to beat Igor Ter-Ovanesyan or Ralph Boston because they were the joint world record holders.
~ Lynn Davies
I had a great season and truly enjoyed competing around the world - from Monaco, where I managed to establish a world record, to Beijing, where I finally captured my first world outdoor title.
~ Genzebe Dibaba
I can't be disappointed with my first gold in a senior championship, and to score 5000 points, which only one other woman, the world record holder, has got over, I am satisfied.
~ Katarina Johnson-Thompson
And as - funny enough, it actually became - so I've always wanted to be a Guinness world record holder. And believe it or not, before I made this there was not a category for world's largest Nerf gun, but there is now.
~ Mark Rober
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.
~ Adam Peaty
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.
~ Caitlyn Jenner
Until maybe my coworker makes a six-and-a-half-foot Nerf gun, I'm the proud holder of a world record.
~ Mark Rober
I am a dreamer. And what I dream of is to become Olympic champion, world champion, world record holder.
~ Caster Semenya
I've set no world record.
~ Marion Jones
I don't know how you keep the world record holder off your team.
~ Ryan Hall
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.
~ Maurice Greene
Breaking the world record in '92 was a very special personal moment, but I'd say my favorite moment as a decathlete was winning the Olympic gold medal. It was a lot of years of work, and when I won it, it was more a sense of relief than jubilation or exaltation.
~ Dan O'Brien
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.
~ Michael Johnson
I felt so relaxed. It just felt very easy, and that's why it surprised me that I had broken my world record.
~ Katie Ledecky
I have been dreaming of an outdoor world record forever. Now I want them all: the 1500, the 5000, even the 800.
~ Genzebe Dibaba
For me, I've not really focused on a world record. I'm just trying to put a complete race together, and when I do that, then fast times will come.
~ Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce
I have done 33 films in one year, for which I hold a Guinness Book World record. Plus I've done songs for all languages from Hindi to Malayalam, Punjabi to Telugu, and Kannada to Oriya.
~ Bappi Lahiri
Adam Peaty is far and away the best swimmer in the world, and he's British. He set a world record - but the day after we were talking about my dress.
~ Helen Skelton
I did not know about awards. I just wanted to break the world record and the Olympic record.
~ Milkha Singh
Dave Franco, I could put him up there with the best card throwers in the world. Not the best sleight of hand, but he could take a card and fire it over there and stick it into an apple. If he kept training at it, he could definitely break a Guinness World Record - he's that good.
~ Keith Barry
Virat Kohli has so far shown that he has more ability and talent than anybody else, and if he can play till 32 or 34 with same fitness and without injuries, he will come to a point where not even Vivian Richards neither Sachin Tendulkar had such a record.
~ Kapil Dev