Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Croatian athlete Blanka Vlasic.
Last updated on December 21, 2024.
Blanka Vlašić is a Croatian former track and field athlete who specialized in the high jump. She is a two-time world champion and double Olympic medallist who ranks as the joint second highest female jumper of all time with her personal best of 2.08 m. She is the Croatian record holder in the event, and the former indoor world champion.
Sometimes your disappointments make you a stronger person for the future.
Since I became a favorite in every race, it's just another burden that I have to bear.
The Olympics must be my curse or something.
A good career is a long-lasting career. When you're there in every competition doing a good job you're a part of an elite, and that's the most important thing.
I like so much wearing heels, legs look so much better, everything looks better. But it's only recently I've had the courage to do that.
I am the only girl in the family so everyone pampered me.
People like scandals.
I realized that health is the most important thing and that all the other things come with time if you are devoted enough.
I don't rank competitions - every single one is the Olympics to me.
People don't come to stadiums only to see results. They come to see a reaction, they want to see we are also human, that we can cry or laugh.
Competing helps me to polish my shape.
I believe the reason for my early independence is sport, through which I learnt at an early stage to take care of myself and be disciplined.