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Donovan Bailey
5 quotes
“Okay, you’ve got to work on getting out of the blocks and transitioning, because I had a horrible start. I got some world records along the way over the 50m, beating guys who were world champions. It was really just working on the craft itself.”
Donovan Bailey (born 1967) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I got injured just before the Olympics. There were a lot of mind games being played. Linford Christie was the reigning champion and I respect him to the nth degree. He was fantastic at executing his race. I had beaten Linford a couple of times, but, in our last race going into the Olympics, I'm like: “There's no way that I'm going to lose to him.”
Donovan Bailey (born 1967) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I was nervous at every major championships, but only for the first race, so I could barely sleep the night before the Olympics started. As soon as I got out and touched the track, that allowed me to be comfortable. Before semi-finals and finals, I would usually sleep like a baby. The final had two false starts but I don't think it mattered. I was sixth after 40m but I just stayed relaxed and stayed tall. It's all reactive. There are two things that you cannot do in the 100m – think and run at the same time. So I ran. And I won.”
Donovan Bailey (born 1967) first seen 2023 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Donovan Bailey: my greatest race, December 23 2023
“He got out of the blocks. I thought: “I’m going to catch him, come hell or high water,” and in trying to do that I ended up over-striding. I flew back to see Dr Mark Lindsay. I call him “Holy Hands” because he is probably the best soft tissue specialist in the world. I believed that I was going to be okay. He went through it all, breaking down the inflammation on a daily basis, working five to six hours per day: maybe a little weights, walking, stretching. I'd be in freezing water for five minutes and then be in boiling hot water for another five minutes. We were doing all kinds of things that allowed us to be back.”
Donovan Bailey (born 1967) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I flew in from Texas because I was training there but every one of my friends and maybe every single person I grew up with in Oakville, Ontario – which is about 30km outside of Toronto – were in Atlanta, so it was a home Olympics for me. I got into Atlanta Stadium and saw a sea of Canadian flags, from the front seats all the way up to the rafters. Ato Boldon believed he could win. Linford believed he could win. Frankie Fredericks believed he could win. But I knew I was going to win because I'd spent the entire year perfecting exactly what I was going to do. In Lausanne, Dan and I had discussed breaking the world record there. And he said to me: “Do you want to break it now or do you want to wait for Atlanta?” I said: “I’m going to wait.”
Donovan Bailey (born 1967) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source