"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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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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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/.
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"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.








