Event Quote by Milkha Singh Download Open image “I lost in my first ever 400m race, the event I almost ruled later.” — Milkha Singh ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Event First Lost Race Ruled
I lost races because I wanted too much to win them in beating my rivals. — Hermann Maier Copy Share Image
My favourite event was the 200m, so as I won the 100m, I thought it was possible I'd win the 200m — Betty Cuthbert Copy Share Image
I know y'all have probably heard I lost a few races in a row before I won one, but I never gave up. Never… — Michael Waltrip Copy Share Image
Even when I took first prize, topped the class, won the race, I never really won anything. I was merely avoiding the embarrassment of… — Portia de Rossi Copy Share Image
I ran my first race the end of March, 1976. And less than four months later I was Olympic champion. But I had the… — Edwin Moses Copy Share Image
Nobody had ever lost 462 races and then just won. But Dale Earnhardt Sr. had told me I had the ability, and that day,… — Michael Waltrip Copy Share Image
I was a decent 800 m. runner, not 400 - and I'm actually really proud of this: I beat the girls and the boys to win my school 800, so it was a big deal at the time; I was about 11. Then I won the district and made it to state, but I just never went, because I was… — Johanna Konta Copy Share
I have never won a race, and that is my main disappointment - but you have to be positive. — Jean Alesi Copy Share Image
Politicians or well connected people will try to get hold of federations and they don't think about sportspersons. — Milkha Singh Copy Share Image
The first time I ever wore a shoe was in 1955 during the trials for the Melbourne Olympics. — Milkha Singh Copy Share Image
Athletes like me, PT Usha, Anju Bobby Gerorge have reached finals in Olympics, and it's not easy to reach the finals. If Indians were… — Milkha Singh Copy Share Image
No one should suffer what I suffered. I still dread those scenes when man killed man. I lost my parents, most of my family,… — Milkha Singh Copy Share Image
In the Army, I was running for India and I was a soldier who could have died for India. — Milkha Singh Copy Share Image
I didn't know what off-season meant. I could sprint barefoot, anywhere, anytime and on any surface. — Milkha Singh Copy Share Image
I do not blame the government for not providing infrastructure to athletes. They have given everything for training of athletes. — Milkha Singh Copy Share Image
Running had become such an obsession that even when asleep, I would run races in my dreams. — Milkha Singh Copy Share Image
When I started running in 1951, running shoes weren't even produced in India. — Milkha Singh Copy Share Image
Back in the really olden days, dinner was seldom a ceremonial event for U.S. families. Only the very wealthy had a separate dining room.… — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
Sporting events like the Olympics have developed and maintained a clear message of promoting gender equality as an essential criterion in the success of… — Richard Attias Copy Share Image
For political and bureaucratic reasons, governments at all levels are telling far less to the public than to insiders about how to prepare for… — Barton Gellman Copy Share Image
I think that all services will have downtime. No matter how much you prepare, have redundant systems, or audit, there will periodically be a… — Matt Mullenweg Copy Share Image
The event of the landing of these brethren upon our shores is to be, not without its beneficial effect, as well to the colored… — Lewis Tappan Copy Share Image
The publishing of a book is a worldwide event. The attempt to suppress a book is a worldwide event. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
The theater remains relevant because of 3D. It makes it an event. You go there, 400 people put on their glasses, and it's just fun. — Evan Goldberg Copy Share Image
The Gospel is not a theory; the Gospel is not a philosophy or an idea; the Gospel is not a way of thinking or… — John Piper Copy Share Image
Today 80 percent of all the oil that comes out of the Gulf is from 1,000 feet or more and today almost a third… — Bob Graham Copy Share Image
'Death with dignity' is our society's expression of the universal yearning to achieve a graceful triumph over the stark and often repugnant finality of… — Sherwin B. Nuland Copy Share Image
