Latest Gerry Lindgren Quotes from Interviews

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• This life is made to change all reality. We are here for the benefit, happiness, and welfare of a new reality; a new direction.

  Gerry Lindgren

  Reality, Benefits, Life Is

  Interview with Mick Grant, John Molvar, www.youthrunner.com. January 12, 2011.

• Goals should be impossible! You should tread FEARLESSLY where the brave dare not go.

  Gerry Lindgren

  Goal, Brave, Impossible

  Interview with Mick Grant, John Molvar, www.youthrunner.com. January 12, 2011.

• Set a new standard. Change reality. Break ground to something new and different. That achievement will live forever just because you WERE somebody special!

  Gerry Lindgren

  Reality, Achievement, Forever

  Interview with Mick Grant, John Molvar, www.youthrunner.com. January 12, 2011.

• Everyone dies whether one is good in their lifetime or evil in their lifetime. So virtue has no payback. Life is meaningless. When you die, you die!

  Gerry Lindgren

  Evil, Payback, Life Is

  Interview with Mick Grant, John Molvar, www.youthrunner.com. January 12, 2011.

• The only thing that lives beyond the grave is the wake you have created by the way you have lived your life; the goals you have set; the distance away from the normal you dared to tread.

  Gerry Lindgren

  Distance, Goal, Wakes You

  Interview with Mick Grant, John Molvar, www.youthrunner.com. January 12, 2011.

• Humans are a TOUGH animal! We can do anything.

  Gerry Lindgren

  Animal, Tough, Humans

  Interview with Mick Grant, John Molvar, www.youthrunner.com. January 12, 2011.

• If you look at your life and compare your life to that of an evil person, you will find that in most regards both lives are the same. You don't live a longer life or live forever by being virtuous.

  Gerry Lindgren

  Evil, Forever, Looks

  Interview with Mick Grant, John Molvar, www.youthrunner.com. January 12, 2011.

• If you KNOW dehydration is a problem in long runs it becomes a problem in long runs.

  Gerry Lindgren

  Running, Long, Dehydration

  Interview with Mick Grant & John Molvar, www.youthrunner.com. December 01, 2011.

• The FEAR of becoming dehydrated causes dehydration. As with so many things in our life, it is because we KNOW it is a problem that it is a problem.

  Gerry Lindgren

  Dehydration, Causes, Becoming

  Interview with Mick Grant & John Molvar, www.youthrunner.com. December 01, 2011.

• If I performed poorly, I knew the eyes of the sports world would be turned away from me. In that situation I knew the NCAA would crush me for sure. But if I could run well, they would not dare to hit me with everyone looking in my direction. I HAD to have a good race.

  Gerry Lindgren

  Crush, Sports, Running

  Interview with Mick Grant, John Molvar, www.youthrunner.com. January 12, 2011.

• I thought perhaps people with injuries could be subject to a starters gun to cure them.

  Gerry Lindgren

  Gun, People, Injury

  Interview with Mick Grant, John Molvar, www.youthrunner.com. January 12, 2011.

• News people were holding me up as a symbol of defiance to the boycott and I couldn't even run.

  Gerry Lindgren

  Running, People, News

  Interview with Mick Grant, John Molvar, www.youthrunner.com. January 12, 2011.

• I always enjoyed the training more than I did the racing. There was a high level of anxiety in racing that I did not enjoy. Training runs set me FREE. I could imagine the race in my mind and race as if it were the actual race.

  Gerry Lindgren

  Running, Race, Anxiety

  Interview with Mick Grant, John Molvar, www.youthrunner.com. January 12, 2011.

• When I first came into international running, most runners did about 60-70 miles or running a week. I guess that is still the standard except for Kenya and Ethiopia. I was doing 150-250 a week and some weeks as high as 350. It was unheard of! But, because I did not have access to what was possible and standard, I had to set my own possibilities and standards. I was just lucky enough to be out of the loop and not know.

  Gerry Lindgren

  Running, Lucky, Kenya

  Interview with Mick Grant, John Molvar, www.youthrunner.com. January 12, 2011.

• Ideally I would start by racing my athletes once every two weeks. But, such a program has to be flexible because some runners improve better with weekly races or even bi-weekly races. A coach has to adjust to what is best for the runner.

  Gerry Lindgren

  Athlete, Race, Two

  Interview with Mick Grant, John Molvar, www.youthrunner.com. January 12, 2011.

• Setting goals that have already been achieved is a cop-out.

  Gerry Lindgren

  Goal, Cop, Settings

  Interview with Mick Grant, John Molvar, www.youthrunner.com. January 12, 2011.

• Speedwork is terribly overrated! I remember talking to runners after distance races and someone is sure to say they were able to run fast off base work with no speed work at all. The truth is speedwork doesn't work. Lots of miles, and then fast miles gets you there much quicker than speed work.

  Gerry Lindgren

  Running, Distance, Race

  Interview with Mick Grant, John Molvar, www.youthrunner.com. January 12, 2011.

• The 3-minute mile goal is to teach runners that the impossible is where goals should be set.

  Gerry Lindgren

  Goal, Impossible, Should

  Interview with Mick Grant, John Molvar, www.youthrunner.com. January 12, 2011.

• Wanting to win races is detrimental to courage. You tend to run too conservatively because you want to wait and sprint. If you are there to force the pace, to CREATE greatness rather than to have greatness, Courageous moves are a part of your race.

  Gerry Lindgren

  Running, Moving, Winning

  Interview with Mick Grant, John Molvar, www.youthrunner.com. January 12, 2011.

• When you hit a certain spot you Sprint no matter how you feel inside or what your co-runner thinks. You just go! In training as a nickel, you sprint because you need to sprint! You just do it! In racing people see it and call it courage, but it is attitude; determination; duty.

  Gerry Lindgren

  Determination, Attitude, Thinking

  Interview with Mick Grant, John Molvar, www.youthrunner.com. January 12, 2011.

• The hard part is believing it can happen to you. Most likely, my runners will never achieve a 3-minute mile. I think they may all be disappointed at 3:20 or 3:30. But even if they never break 4-minutes they will have accomplished something DYNAMIC! They will have created the possibility than now does not exist.

  Gerry Lindgren

  Believe, Thinking, May

  Interview with Mick Grant, John Molvar, www.youthrunner.com. January 12, 2011.

• COURAGE is not a quality you teach. Courage is the by-product of self-discipline. It is an ATTITUDE.

  Gerry Lindgren

  Attitude, Self, Discipline

  Interview with Mick Grant, John Molvar, www.youthrunner.com. January 12, 2011.

• I would instill in my team an attitude of role modeling. We run to teach other people the value of physical activity. In all things, be humble and appreciative; hurt no one; help anyone you can.

  Gerry Lindgren

  Running, Hurt, Attitude

  Interview with Mick Grant, John Molvar, www.youthrunner.com. January 12, 2011.

• Set a master goal for your running and for your life...

  Gerry Lindgren

  Running, Goal, Masters

  Interview with Mick Grant, John Molvar, www.youthrunner.com. January 12, 2011.

• Kids as young as twelve CAN run 90 minutes, and they can train hard to run fast, BUT they lose something in training hard at that early age.

  Gerry Lindgren

  Running, Kids, Train Hard

  Interview with Mick Grant, John Molvar, www.youthrunner.com. January 12, 2011.