Usain Bolt både er, og vil nok forblive, en af de mest ikoniske sportsudøvere nogensinde. Han har sprintet sig til olympisk guld i et utal af omgange, og holder stadig rekorden som den hurtigste mand nogensinde.
Det kræver naturligvis hårdt arbejde, og masser af træning og talent, men Bolt peger også selv på spilmediet som værende en af grundene til at han kom så langt. I et interview med BBC siger han følgende:
"I feel like it kind of helped my hunger, I would say. You know what I mean? To always want to win. But I feel like it, in a way, kind of helped out with the track and field because now when you get on the track you have the same mentality as when you're playing video games. You just want to win."
Journalisten spurgte desuden Bolt, om hvorvidt han var gået efter at være esportsstjerne i dag, hvis han netop nu startede ud, og her svarede han "probably", og fulgte op således:
"I think I was so much into video games when I was younger because sometimes I would skip training to go to the video games store to play video games. My coach would call my dad and tell him, 'Listen, he didn't come to training today,' and then my dad would be like, 'Why didn't you go to training?' and I had no answer. You know what I mean? So that was just one thing, I know if we had what we have now I would definitely be a gamer, for sure."