Best Bolt Quotes to Inspire, Uplift & Motivate You Every Day

“Every time Usain Bolt competes we're all expecting him to run sub 10 seconds and record one of the fastest times in history. That brings huge pressure.”

“I know what was happening to me during the 2012 London Olympics. I was in a fantasy world. You look this side, Usain Bolt is walking, Serena Williams is sitting next to you and having food. So that is really a fantasy world for a youngster.”

“Today, Jamaica is known because of just one man - Usain Bolt. Not many Indians have managed to reach the finals of track and field events at the Olympics and that says it all.”

“I love Usain Bolt. When he's in there, I can't wait to watch him. Because you know he's going to put on a show.”

“I don't really follow any sportspersons, to be honest. However, I'm a fan of Usain Bolt and follow him on social media.”

“I don't want to be Usain Bolt.”

“You take records with a pinch of salt. Take Usain Bolt: someone will be quicker than him one day. These things aren't important.”

“Once you let go of the idea of waiting for a magical lightning bolt of genius to hit, you can really get to work.”

“A guy like Usain Bolt would be sick behind a bobsled.”

“As a pop musician, as someone who makes songs, the best ideas are the simplest. They come, and that's the lightning bolt moment.”

“Bolt put the Mobot on the map, to be honest with you! He's just an amazing guy.”

“I'm not gonna lie, I love Usain Bolt and Serena Williams. What I love about Serena is that she just gets on the floor and she dominates. She handles her business very well, I respect that.”

“I had just been to the David Bowie Diamond Dogs concert, and I kid you not: When I watched him onstage, a lightning bolt came out of the sky and zapped me. I knew at that moment, that's what I wanted to do with my life. It was my calling.”

“A lot of people over the last couple of seasons have fallen prey to the unstoppable force Usain Bolt brings to the table. And they just become subdued. That's not who I am. I'm not going to allow myself to become a subdued character.”

“And there are very few wild animals that can't run down a human being; the big predators would run down Usain Bolt without even thinking about it. So your only chance is to stand your ground!”

“Clearly Bolt would beat me over 100 metres on the track. But on grass, over 30 metres with a ball at my feet? I'm winning that race every time!”

“Before, when Bolt was in the race, it was about who's going to get second. You just come and want to watch Bolt run, it's always exciting because you know he always puts on a show.”

“There are so many guys that they are talking about that may be the 'next one' or may be the next Bolt. That whole conversation is exciting to me and really humbling.”

“Pogba was our Usain Bolt - he allowed us to play in a certain way.”

“A song is an emotional lightning bolt - a good one, anyway.”

“What kind of country just recycles its old money, reminisces about what used to be, and doesn't know how to weld, to machine, to cast or to bolt things together? Not one that's on a path to future greatness, that's for certain.”

“Everybody talks about Bolt. Now they can talk about the ladies who are running some really wonderful times.”

“When I got on stage, I felt this bolt of electricity hit me, and it was this shock of, 'This is exactly what I'm supposed to do with my life.'”

“I fear we have shot our bolt - but we have been to Pole and done the longest journey on record.”

“Robert Bolt's storytelling is the kind that I grew up with and aspired to.”

“The champagne tastes the same if you're sitting bolt upright or sunk back into a sofa, so you might as well be upright, because you look better.”

“I remember going down the tunnel into the Olympic Stadium and getting a glimpse of all the people and hearing all the noise, all the people shouting for us. I'd seen Usain Bolt on the warm-up track, and then, as I walked into the stadium, I sort of realised how big it was!”

“Motorists in London have got to be immensely careful of cyclists. At the same time, cyclists in London are too often unwilling to obey the road signs. I've seen regular examples of people who just bolt through red lights.”

“It has been a pleasure being in the same era. I mean, the guy's last name is Bolt, and he's the fastest man ever. You can't write a story like that, and so to be in the pages in there is nice.”

“These characters are not spontaneous creations. They are engineered down to the last nut and bolt.”

“I came to Flatanger with a plan in my mind to bolt a really, really hard thing that would be beautiful and keep me motivated to try it for a long time, in some underdeveloped area.”

“I won't say I'm the new Usain Bolt, I'm the new Christian Coleman.”

“If Queen Elizabeth knighthooded me and I would get the title Sir Usain Bolt. That sounds very nice.”

“Creativity hits me like a lightning bolt. For two weeks ideas overflow and spill from me, before a period of nothing. The prospect of it suddenly just leaving me one day scares me. I'm terrified that every song I write might be my last.”

“If you go 90 yards in a hundred-yard race, you come last. Usain Bolt slows down for the last half a yard, but for 99 yards, he is that far ahead that he can. In our business, you can't be far enough ahead. It is such a competitive marketplace.”

“Running with someone like Maurice Greene - competing shoulder to shoulder with him - and then running against Usain Bolt, Asafa Powell. And now the young guys, Christian Coleman, Noah Lyles. I'm the only guy that's crossed three generations of sprinters.”

“I directed a short series for Hulu called 'Paloma,' and being in an editing room, I learned a lot about acting. It gave me a new bolt of energy in terms of my interest in filmmaking because it made me realize how collaborative filmmaking can be and also that you're not just limited to one job.”

“Black Bolt is typically a stoic leader, part of a larger cast of Inhumans who get their hands dirty in ways that he doesn't.”

“This is the best thing that could've happened for the 2011 season - Bolt losing like this and having to go away.”

“People say, 'why not have the Paralympics and Olympics combined?' I'm like, 'When Usain Bolt was running, I fully appreciate everyone will watch him and not me. But guess what? When I'm on, we're the stars, right?'”

“If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to rise, it is all over. Bolt up at once.”

“Often, in books, I find female power to be cartoonish - power is a process, an evolution - it has responsibilities. It's not as simple as picking up your lightning bolt and throwing it at someone.”

“Sometimes it can be that a player is available and you can get them next month - wow, that's a bolt of lightning - but it doesn't happen that often, it really does vary.”

“But I am a blasted tree; the bolt has entered my soul; and I felt then that I should survive to exhibit what I shall soon cease to be - a miserable spectacle of wrecked humanity, pitiable to others and intolerable to myself.”

“I was raised as a Catholic, but I got up to go to church because I thought I'd be hit by a bolt of lightning if I didn't.”

“I went to Beijing for the Olympics and was literally right across the track from Usain Bolt. And when he gets to full stride, for every two steps the other guy's taking, he's just taking one.”

“The script for what would eventually become my first graphic novel, 'Cairo,' sort of came to me in kind of a bolt of lightning within 24 hours of having moved to that city. Just a jumble of characters and narratives and interesting things that I was seeing and experiencing for the first time.”

“I got rid of Warlock's lightning bolt because... it was a real pain to draw.”

“Designing for Usain Bolt and the Jamaican Olympic team, I just have to make sure my fabric choices are right.”

“My favorite runner is Usain Bolt, who happens to be Jamaican and is the fastest man in the world.”

“I like to watch the best in every sport, so definitely like Tom Brady or Tiger Woods, his comeback story, or even Usain Bolt. I look up to those guys just because they're great.”

“Without bureaus, committees, officials or emissaries to manufacture sentiment in his favor, without intrigue or effort on his part, Grant is the candidate whose supporters have never threatened to bolt.”

“I remember Ella Fitzgerald sort of coming into my life like a bolt of lightning - like, what is that? It was one of the purest examples of God in art that I'd ever seen.”

“I can only be who I can be. I can't be Usain Bolt, we're different people and do different events, so it's hard to compare us.”

“The great thing with Usain Bolt is he fell into great coaching, so his talent was exceptional from Day 1. You can coach technique and structure, but not talent.”

“Poetry for me is very easy. It's like a lightning bolt. I feel this calling, and the first line of the poem comes into my head, and I just have to go to the page, to the typewriter, to the computer or whatever and write it.”

“Usain Bolt is the fastest man in the land; I'm the fastest man in mixed martial arts.”

“My name is Bolt, Lightning Bolt.”

“Success is like a lightning bolt. It'll strike you when you least expect it, and you just have to keep the momentum going. You have to strike when the iron is hot. So for me, I just kept striking and striking to polish out the sword that I was making.”

“Normally, I bolt at the idea of playing anyone for too long because I don't want it to become dull and like another job.”

“Mick Jagger was a lightning bolt of strange talent sent from above.”

“My routine is to ride that snooze button as far as it will take me, take a quick shower, get dressed in the dark and bolt out the door.”

“Both the 'Gregor' series and 'The Hunger Games' are what I call lightning-bolt ideas. There was a moment where the idea came to me. With 'The Hunger Games,' the lightning bolt sort of hit at a moment when I was channel surfing between reality TV and the coverage of the Iraq war.”

“I'm not the next Usain Bolt or Michael Phelps.”