A biography for P. T. Ushahasn’t been written yet.
“The 1982 Asian Games champion M.D. Valsamma's coach gave a statement in the media that if Valsamma had some 15 days training on a synthetic track, she would beat me. I was very interested in the challenge. I kept that paper cutting under my bed and used to read it often.”
“In my opinion happiness is nothing but satisfaction - satisfaction through work, thoughts and accomplishing our mission and vision.”
“I come from a middle-class family in Kozhikode, Kerala.”
“Money cannot buy the self-actualization of one's feelings.”
“If I missed bronze by whisker, it was due to lack of experience.”
“Nobody talks about my contribution to the sport. Nobody talks about the 101 medals I have won in my 20-year career. Nobody talks about the efforts I made to attain those heights.”
“Rather than missing the medal, the overall message from across the Indian contingent was my effort proved that we can win an Olympic medal.”
“I would like to make it clear that there were no solid offers to train abroad.”
“Cricket has come to take centerstage among all sports in the country today and it is therefore no surprise that the organizers are romping in added attractions, to cheer the crowd, in a bid to pay value for their money.”
“I was part of the Indian contingent that went to Karachi for an invitational meet, before the Moscow Olympics of 1980 and I was taking B-Complex in liquid form, as advised by Dr. P.M.K. Nambiar, a cardiac specialist based in Kannur.”
“'Khelo' Games is certainly a good idea. I am happy to see that the government is trying to do something to improve sports at the grass-roots level and that lots of money is being spent on it.”
“An Olympic medal in athletics is still a dream for India. Milkha Singh is the torchbearer for young athletes to achieve that goal.”
“If life could come back, if I could roll back the years, I would like to relive my most cherished moment, the Los Angeles Olympics.”
“It got injured in 1995 and was operated upon once.”
“Records are meant to be broken and they should be broken, but fairly.”
“I was good in science in school and parents thought I would become a school teacher like my mother.”
“I was a vegetarian who would eat fish.”
“No one had told us that in L.A. we would get only American food. I had no choice but to eat rice porridge without any nutrition supplement, and that definitely affected my performance in the last 35 meters of my event since I couldn't sustain the energy level.”
“U.S. and Russia - both coach their athletes from the grassroots level on and provide scientific training.”
“I was the first athlete in the country to have a personal coach.”