"Up until now it's been really difficult to find a girlfriend. I've never had one, they were usually scared of me. ... Hopefully now that I'm famous I'll be able to meet lots of girls. I'd like to get married."
- Sultan Kosen ("World's Tallest Man")
"If this title had given me more health or a few extra years, I would have taken it, but the opposite happened, I only wasted my nerve cells. If I have to choose between prosperity and calm, I choose calm."
- Ukrainian Leonid Stadnyk (refused to be measured for the record)