“Greatness is doing things no one has ever done before”
“As a junior, I was really, really talented, but getting into the senior level, I was still kind of young and naive and felt like I didn’t need to work as hard to compete at a high level. Going to (the 2004 Olympic Games in) Athens and not actually making it through the first round really helped me to say: ‘you know what, I need to look at myself and understand that if I want to be the best or if I want to win an Olympic gold medal, I need to be more dedicated, I need to work harder’.”
USAIN BOLT
His first season as a professional athlete 2008 was a very memorable one. That was the first year he really started training at a high level, physically and mentally. 2015 was a tough season for Usain, but also a very fulfilling one. He truly experienced that with hard work anything is possible. “I believed in myself, I came out on the day and I just executed. I believed that I could do it. And I got it done.” Now being retired from sprinting, the 35-year-old Jamaican really misses the Olympics, but he found a way to passionately celebrate sports events by simply switching from athlete to fan. “For me, the Jamaican girls did extremely well. Also Karsten Warholm really blew my brain. And Alyson Felix, she actually got a medal after having a kid and going through all that she did, to really show up at the Olympics and get on the podium is a massive feat.
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ONLY SEE GREAT
PUMA takes you into the minds of our athletes and ambassadors with our campaign ‘Only See Great’, spreading a vision of hope, optimism and self-belief following one of the most challenging years in quite some time.
The idea for the “Only See Great” campaign was inspired by cultural icon, entrepreneur and philanthropist Shawn “JAY-Z” Carter who first said: “I only see great. I don’t see good. I don’t see compromise. We should always strive to make something great, something that will last.”
