Top 100 Quotes & Sayings by Milkha Singh
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Last updated on September 17, 2024.
Running had become such an obsession that even when asleep, I would run races in my dreams.
I enjoyed watching 'Bhaag Milkha Bhaag' very much. Many such sports films should be made so that the upcoming generation draws inspiration from the sportspersons of our country, win medals at the Olympics and Asian Games, and make India proud.
I hope they make many more sports films in future.
The new generation I feel does not know about Milka Singh, they don't know about the hard work I did, what struggles I went through, in Pakistan and India, they know just the name.
When I used to go to Bombay to run, I would often meet Raj Kapoor and he would take me to RK Studio.
I have been on the deathbed so many times and had to be given oxygen while training. I did not know if I would survive, but the roar of applause would lift me up.
I am not against cricket, but it is dominating this country. All other games are finished, because the media shows cricket 24 hours a day, the papers are full of cricketers' photographs.
I will surely watch 'Toofaan.'
I don't even know when my father admitted me to school. During those days in villages, people did not remember the exact date a child was born. It was usually only the season that they remembered.
My parents had a small piece of land to earn a living from, but my father always wanted to educate his children.
Don't sell your country's pride for a few bucks.
When 'Bhaag Mikha Bhaag' was released, no matter where I went - Australia, England or Canada, people around the world used to say 'Farhan is Milkha Singh's ditto copy.'
When I started running in 1951, running shoes weren't even produced in India.
A child, when orphaned, can become anything. If I had not joined the Army, who knows, I may have become a dacoit. I give all credit to the Army; they found Milkha Singh.
The fact is that children get spoiled in bad company.
I came from a remote village, I didn't know what running was, or the Olympics.
Cricket has driven down the standard of every other sport.
Not every school in India has athletics as a compulsory sport. They should make it compulsory.
I too have daughters, and it saddens me that people think of daughters as a burden.
I did not even know what athletics was; the Army taught me everything.
In my determination to avoid failure, I set myself a goal to work towards, that is, to transform myself into a running machine.
I came from the bottom, from nothing. To a man who has nothing in his life, imagine what it's like to be hoisted on someone's shoulders.
Milkha Singh is living his last days. An earthen lamp's glow is brightest towards the end, in the same manner I am humbled by the kind of love and respect being showered on me at this age.
If you want a name, you have to fight death.
Whether it be a sage or a king, all have been borne by women.
Every morning I would rise at the crack of dawn and after the usual ablutions, would get into my sports kit and dash off to the track, where I would run two or three miles cross-country, in the company of my coach.
No matter what the weather was, I would practice for five hours every morning and evening, seven days a week, three hundred and sixty-five days a year. It was this disciplined routine that moulded me into the athlete I became.
I have no angst that I have not got the Bharat Ratna, it does not matter to me.
I did not know about awards. I just wanted to break the world record and the Olympic record.
My stomach hurts at times, my back is always a problem, and my eyesight is not good. But I still jog every day.
My experience made me so hard that I wasn't even scared of death.
Exercise has kept me safe during COVID-19.
Athletics is the mother of all sport and every child must try out it once during his school days.
I do not blame the government for not providing infrastructure to athletes. They have given everything for training of athletes.
Athletics talent is more prominent in the villages than in the urban areas because the main factor determining the difference is hard work which is an integral part of an athlete's training.
The first time I ever wore a shoe was in 1955 during the trials for the Melbourne Olympics.
If you want to make your children a successful doctor, engineer or a sportsperson then you will have to put in double the hard work than that of your children.
No one else could do what P.T. Usha has done for this country.
If Milkha Singh is known as the Flying Sikh in the whole world today, the credit goes to General Ayub and to Pakistan.
Gold slipped from my hand at the Rome Olympics and then from P.T. Usha at the Los Angeles Olympics. But it is my dream to see a boy or girl from India winning gold in the Olympics before my death.
If today any athlete were to put in as much effort as Milkha Singh did, he can conquer the universe and his record will remain unbroken for at least 100 years.
It's what I tell everyone - exercise is as important as food.
I didn't know what off-season meant. I could sprint barefoot, anywhere, anytime and on any surface.
Life is not decided by lines on a palm but by the power of the will, hard work and discipline.
It's painful to see that after Independence, India hasn't won a single Olympic medal in athletics.
Yes, I started by running barefoot. My feet used to slip in canvas shoes. So we put them aside and ran barefoot.
Sports authority should hire coaches only on contract basis in athletics and also in other games. The coaches should be told to produce medals in upcoming Olympic Games. Only then will they work day and night and push sportsmen and women to work harder.
Athletes like me, PT Usha, Anju Bobby Gerorge have reached finals in Olympics, and it's not easy to reach the finals. If Indians were genetically inferior then we wouldn't have reached even finals.
I would push myself so much that in the end I would collapse and I would have to be admitted to hospital, I would pray to God to save me, promise that I would be more careful in future. And then I would do it all over again.
In the Army, I was running for India and I was a soldier who could have died for India.
We had nothing in our times. The athletes and sportsmen in those days didn't earn much money. We worked for the applause, people's appreciation inspired and motivated us, we ran for the country.
I am happy that my son has been responsible for putting India on the world map in golf.
If anyone has it in him to work hard, he can rise from the earth and touch the sky.
If you look at history of athletics in the country almost all champions have hailed from the villages.
In my time, talking to a girl was like talking to God.
As long as you remain true to yourself and continue training with sincerity, nobody can stop you from achieving excellence.
I loved Farhan's look in the 'Toofaan' teaser. He has made a wonderful physique for the role of a boxer.
Whenever I returned after winning a race, my friends in the Army would lift me on their shoulders and break into Bhangra, irrespective of whether they knew the dance or not.
I didn't watch a film after the 1960s. I have no idea who all were the good heroes, directors or producers in the '80s. The only film I watched after all those years was my own film.
I tried to join the army two or three times.
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