Motivation Quote by Inge de Bruijn

"Well concerning the world records that I did, I think it helps a lot to me, yeah. I think it's a very individual thing because I heard some people say, like, oh I don't like it at all. But I definitely, for me it really made a big difference"

Inge de Bruijn, Athlete

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There is a quiet honesty in how Inge de Bruijn frames world records: not as destiny, not as myth, but as something that happened to her body and then changed her mind. The halting repetition ("I think... yeah... for me") reads less like a polished soundbite than an athlete searching for the right level of certainty. That matters, because elite sport is built to manufacture certainty: medals, times, rankings. De Bruijn pushes back by making the most quantified achievement in swimming feel stubbornly personal.

The intent is almost modest: she is defending a psychological tool without turning it into a universal prescription. World records, in her telling, function like proof-of-concept. They quiet doubt. They make the next race feel less like a leap of faith and more like a reenactment of something already possible. That is the subtext behind "it really made a big difference" - not just in results, but in permission. Records give an athlete license to believe they're allowed to win.

The context is a sport where the line between confidence and complacency is policed constantly. Some swimmers hate the pressure of owning a record; it becomes a target on your back, a clock you can only lose to. De Bruijn acknowledges that fork - "some people say... I don't like it at all" - then refuses to moralize it. Her quote lands because it treats greatness as an individual psychology, not a personality type. In an era that loves one-size-fits-all mentality talk, she insists on something more realistic: what fuels one champion can suffocate another.

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Inge de Bruijn (born August 24, 1973) is a Athlete from Netherland.

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