Donovan Bailey
Athlete
1967-12-16
Quotes by Donovan Bailey
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Follow your passion, be prepared to work hard and sacrifice, and, above all, don't let anyone limit your dreams
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Follow your passion, be prepared to work hard and sacrifice, and, above all, don't let anyone limit your dreams
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I'm Jamaican, man. I'm Jamaican first. You gotta understand that's where I'm from. That's home. That you can never take away from me. I'm a Jamaican-born Canadian sprinter.
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A strained hamstring is a muscle tear and very easy to take care of with proper therapy. The greatest problem for a sprinter coming back from a hamstring injury is getting yourself to a point where you are confident mentally that all the muscles are going to be firing.
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I'm a sprinter man. We don't jog; we don't walk. It's full-out. It's big engines. You don't take a car that has 600 horsepower for a cross-country drive.
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I'd like to be a more consistent starter. I'd like a smoother transition from crouching to running. I have to learn to relax during a race and how to breathe.
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If you botch a handoff or stutter step in a relay, then your team has to make up that lost time. It's always you versus the clock.
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A team sport is not very good for me, because I can't take losing.
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Our people historically have gone through a lot. That is our story. You can trace it all the way back to slavery. But it is incumbent upon everyone, no matter what field, to make it easier on the next generation.
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I was working in corporate Canada and I was doing all right. But I was burnt out... Long hours, a lot of clients. I just wanted to get away. Track and field was sort of like the elimination thing. I just wanted to go and do something. Exercise my brain and my body and kind of gravitate to that.
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Follow your passion, be prepared to work hard and sacrifice, and, above all, don't let anyone limit your dreams.
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