Back Quote by Emil Zatopek

When I was young, I was too slow. I thought I must learn to run fast by practicing to run fast, so I ran…

— Emil Zatopek

I was running to catch a train when one of my teachers saw me. He thought I was fast, time me, and later gave…

— Elizabeth Robinson Schwartz

I could produce spurts of speed and after taking up athletics I found myself running quite quickly over 400m.

— Michael East

I ran track, and I was really good at it. I was really fast.

— Kyle

I am still as slow as I was when I was 20.

— Xabi Alonso

I could run, but I was throwing 93 mph coming out of high school.

— Shemar Moore

I could always see as a kid that I was good at short sprints, running, throwing things far, jumping... anything that required a burst…

— Chris Hoy

When I came here at UTech, everybody was saying I was too short, and I shouldn't think about running fast; it's going to take…

— Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce

I was indeed very slow as a youngster.

— Roger Penrose

The first time I realised I was fast was when I went to see my sister, who is five years older, run for the…

— Colin Jackson

I used to run in circles going nowhere fast.

— Keith Urban

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

— Mary Lou Retton