Anyone can run 20 miles. It's the next six that count. |
Frustration is the first step towards improvement. I have no incentive to improve if I’m content with what I can do and if I’m completely satisfied with my pace, distance and form as a runner. It’s only when I face frustration and use it to fuel my dedication that I feel myself moving forwards. |
Great people and great athletes realize early in their lives their destiny, and accept it. Even if they do not consciously realize the how, the where, the what. |
I eat whatever the guy who beat me in the last race ate. |
I felt like I played in a very tough football game with no hitting above the waist. |
I go running when I have to. When the ice cream truck is doing sixty. |
I just run as hard as I can for 20 miles, and then race. |
I thought about how many preconcieved prejudices would crumble when i trotted right along for 26 miles. |
If you want to become the best runner you can be, start now. Don't spend the rest of your life wondering if you can do it. |
My feeling is that any day I am too busy to run is a day that I am too busy. |
Bill Rodgers (1947-) |
One day the factory sports coach, who was very strict, pointed at four boys, including me, and ordered us to run in a race. I protested that I was weak and not fit to run, but the coach sent me for a physical examination and the doctor said that I was perfectly well. So I had to run, and when I got started I felt I wanted to win. But I only came in second. That was the way it started. |
Run like hell and get the agony over with. |
Bill Clinton (1946-) |
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