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Motivation Quote by Usain Bolt

"I know I'm clean and I know I'm going to be the fastest man in the world, so it's not a problem for me"

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Bolt’s genius here isn’t the bravado; it’s the way he turns suspicion into a stage. “I know I’m clean” is a blunt, almost legalistic line in a sport where certainty is perpetually under appeal. Track in Bolt’s era didn’t just crown champions; it cross-examined them. Every world record came with an invisible asterisk people were eager to ink in. By saying “I know,” he refuses the terms of that conversation. He’s not offering evidence, not pleading for trust, not performing contrition. He’s asserting a private fact as public reality, which is exactly how celebrity works: the body becomes both proof and target.

The second half is where the psychology snaps into focus. “I know I’m going to be the fastest man in the world” isn’t prediction so much as self-mythmaking. Bolt speaks like someone already living in the headline, collapsing future into destiny. It’s competitive talk, sure, but it also functions as reputational armor: if you’re inevitable, you’re harder to undermine. The line “so it’s not a problem for me” is the cool finish, a dismissal that frames controversy as a distraction for other people - critics, rivals, administrators - not for the man doing the winning.

Context matters: Bolt didn’t just dominate; he did it with charisma, showmanship, and apparent ease, all while sprinting through an era scarred by doping scandals and retroactive disqualifications. The subtext is a wager that confidence itself can be evidence, and that the public would rather believe in a clean superhero than sit with the sport’s ambiguity.

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APA Style (7th ed.)
Bolt, Usain. (2026, January 15). I know I'm clean and I know I'm going to be the fastest man in the world, so it's not a problem for me. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-know-im-clean-and-i-know-im-going-to-be-the-172086/

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Bolt, Usain. "I know I'm clean and I know I'm going to be the fastest man in the world, so it's not a problem for me." FixQuotes. January 15, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-know-im-clean-and-i-know-im-going-to-be-the-172086/.

MLA Style (9th ed.)
"I know I'm clean and I know I'm going to be the fastest man in the world, so it's not a problem for me." FixQuotes, 15 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-know-im-clean-and-i-know-im-going-to-be-the-172086/. Accessed 4 Feb. 2026.

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Usain Bolt (born August 21, 1986) is a Athlete from Jamaica.

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