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Maria Mutola Quotes

born 1972 Mozambique

Maria de Lurdes Mutola (1972) is a retired Mozambican female track and field athlete who specialised in the 800 metres running event. She is only the fourth female track and field athlete to compete at six Olympic Games.

Mozambique
Sportspeople

Also known as: Maria de Lurdes Mutola

Random Maria Mutola quote

23 quotes

I am very happy to be still in contention for the Jackpot but I am even happier that I can now forget about this jackpot for a couple of weeks and finally focus 100% on the World Championships.

It was so good of them to greet me like that, as I had thought that maybe now I had not won, that things would change a bit. But it did not change anything. In fact it (their reaction) has motivated me more.

After the Olympics, I was planning to compete in the World Athletics Final but after I returned to South Africa to train for it my hamstring was just so bad I could not train.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Maria Mutola (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.