Milkha Singh citations

Milkha Singh est un athlète indien, spécialiste du 800 m qui a représenté son pays aux Jeux olympiques de Rome et à ceux de Tokyo. Son surnom était le « Sikh volant ». Wikipedia  

✵ 17. octobre 1935
Milkha Singh photo
Milkha Singh: 12   citations 0   J'aime

Milkha Singh: Citations en anglais

“You can achieve anything in life. It just depends on how desperate you are to achieve it.”

The Race of My Life: An Autobiography Milkha Singh (2013)

“I was moved to tears by the thought that from being nobody the night before, I had become somebody.”

While at the EME Army center in 1951 in the cross country race he was declared 6 in the top 10 who among the 500 who ran. Quoted in ‘Flying Sikh' takes a nostalgic jog down memory lane, 6 April 2012, 13 December 2013, The Hindu http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-sports/flying-sikh-takes-a-nostalgic-jog-down-memory-lane/article3285904.ece,

“He emphasized that I must maintain my speed for the first 300 metres, and then give it my all in the last 100 metres. He said that if I ran the first 300 metres at full speed, Spence would do the same, although that was not his running strategy.”

At the 1958 Commonwealth Games, Milkha describes how Dr. Howard, the American coach built the strategy to outrace his biggest threat Milkha At Midnight, 13 December 2013, publisher+Outlook India http://www.outlookindia.com/article.aspx?282698,

“Discipline, hard work, will power…. My experience made me so hard that I wasn't even scared of death." But one story reflects his desire clearest.”

But one story reflects his desire clearest. The 'Flying Sikh' remembers, Rohit, Brijnath, 30 July 2008, 12 July 2013, BBC News http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/7532626.stm,