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I looked up to Don Quarrie and Michael Johnson when I was younger. They were the best in the 200m which was my main event growing up.

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Usain Bolt
Age: 38
Born: 1986
Born: August 21
Association Football Player
Olympic Athlete
Sprinter
Usain St. Leo Bolt
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Growing
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Johnson
Michael
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Younger

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As long as I'm in good shape, you'll always see me smiling.
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Worrying gets you nowhere. If you turn up worrying about how you're going to perform, you've already lost. Train hard, turn up, run your best and the rest will take care of itself.
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I want to be one of the greatest athletes ever to live, not only in track and field, but in all of general sport.
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There are things that bother me. I try not to let them, but they do.
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No matter who you are, no matter what you're doing, no matter how focus you are, no matter how ready you think you? are, you're not gonna catch me
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I don't put myself under pressure.
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Repeating is harder than anything else.
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There is no stress. I live my life, I enjoy it and when I am comfortable I can get married.
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I stopped worrying about the start. The end is what's important.
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When I was young, I didn't really think about anything other than sports.
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It's a great feat for me to have broken my world record.
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My favorite thing is always wings. That is my guilty pleasure.
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For me, I'm focused on what I want to do. I know what I need to do to be a champion, so I'm working on it.
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I just imagine all the other runners are big spiders, and then I get super scared.
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One of the things we're trying to do more of is not just take money from corporate partnerships, but get more involved in the business side for when I retire. So Puma are going to make me an ambassador for life. I have a clothing line coming out. I am investing a lot in housing in Jamaica, buildings for rent.
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Every season something happens so I programme that in something will happen.
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We Jamaicans are not so much stressed about time, you know, but you have to stay on top of it. And, of course, on the track, every time we go on the track, it is all about the seconds and the fractions of a second that count.
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I don't know the history of my sport. I'm not like those people who know everything.
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