Frank Shorter Quotes

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• You have to forget your last marathon before you try another. Your mind can't know what's coming.

  Frank Shorter

  Inspirational, Running, Mind

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• Running with others can help get you out when you might otherwise blow it off.

  Frank Shorter

  Sports, Running, Blow

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• You have to know your body. It's part of the beauty of the training process, and once you've determined how much your body and mind can take, you can then begin to reach your potential.

  Frank Shorter

  Training, Mind, Body

  Frank Shorter, Marc Bloom (1984). “Olympic gold: a runner's life and times”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Why couldn't Pheidippides have died at 20 miles?

  Frank Shorter

  Endurance, Miles, Died

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• Be willing to move forward and find out what happens next.

  Frank Shorter

  Moving, Next, Willing

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• Running a marathon is just like reading a good book. After a while you're just not conscious of the physical act of reading.

  Frank Shorter

  Running, Book, Reading

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  I admire runners older than I - they are now my heroes. I want to be like them as I grow older.

  Frank Shorter

  Sports, Hero, Want

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• Hills are speedwork in disguise.

  Frank Shorter

  Inspirational, Motivational, Running

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• You don't run 26 miles at five minutes a mile on good looks and a secret recipe.

  Frank Shorter

  Inspirational, Funny, Motivational

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• You train best where you are the happiest.

  Frank Shorter

  Running, Inspirational Running, Where You Are

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• My goal has always been to slow down as slowly as possible. It's as simple as that.

  Frank Shorter

  Running, Simple, Goal

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• A good athlete always mentally replays a competition over and over, even in victory, to see what might be done to improve the performance the next time.

  Frank Shorter

  Softball, Sports, Athlete

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• The potential elite runner must realize that hard means hard, easy means easy and they must patiently seek out what combinations work for them. They have to learn to be persistent and patient with their training and racing.

  Frank Shorter

  Sports, Perseverance, Mean

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• Experience has taught me how important it is to just keep going, focusing on running fast and relaxed. Eventually it passes and the flow returns. It's part of racing.

  Frank Shorter

  Sports, Running, Focus

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• Intervals and other types of speed work are essential to improve running speed.

  Frank Shorter

  Running, Essentials, Speed

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• Because running fast is more fun than running slow.

  Frank Shorter

  Sports, Running, Fun

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• I plan to be running as long as I can and have no plans to stop.

  Frank Shorter

  Sports, Running, Long

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• I want my time spent running to serve as a reward.

  Frank Shorter

  Running, Time, Giving Up

  Frank Shorter, Marc Bloom (1984). “Olympic gold: a runner's life and times”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• How did I know you ran a 4:30 mile in high school? That's easy. Everyone ran a 4:30 mile in high school.

  Frank Shorter

  School, Easy, Miles

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• In other words we have marketed our way into this health crisis.

  Frank Shorter

  Way, Crisis

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• You can actually suffer a little bit more going slowly than when you're going really fast. A faster marathon might even be easier than a slow one, in terms of what it takes out of you mentally.

  Frank Shorter

  Running, Suffering, Littles

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• There's always the feeling of getting stronger. I think that's what keeps me going.

  Frank Shorter

  Thinking, Feelings, Stronger

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• Three half-mile repeats on the track at 5-K race pace with a short recovery jog in between shouldn't scare anyone away-and it will improve your speed.

  Frank Shorter

  Recovery, Race, Track

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• As I've been able to once again gain the benefits of speed work, I'm enjoying my running more and more.

  Frank Shorter

  Running, Benefits, Able

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• I started in law school in '71 and graduated in '74. So I was training for the Olympics, running or averaging around 20 miles a day and going to law school full time.

  Frank Shorter

  Sports, Running, School

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