Marathon Quotes - Page 11

• Explore your limits and get to know yourself. You'll never feel more real than after the hardest workout, the longest run, the toughest week, or the best race of your life. Constantly make your own standards tougher.

  Luke Watson

  Motivational, Running, Workout

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• I had a dual goal in my running that was to win and to achieve excellence, so I was never happy with a slow tactical time. If the race were slow I would get in front and pull it up again. I couldn't stand a slow race. A lot of people seem to get screwed up on tactics. There is only one tactic in a race and that is to always be in a position where you can win it.

  Herb Elliott

  Motivational, Running, Winning

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• Many runners worry about who is in the race, or they think about the time they must run to win. I only try to run as fast as I am capable - nothing less.

  Henry Rono

  Motivational, Running, Winning

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• If I'm going to get in these races and run against the best guys, I'm going to be there with them. And if I die, then I die, but I'm not going to walk away from the track saying, 'I didn't give everything.' Ever again.

  David Krummenacker

  Motivational, Running, Race

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• I've run the marathon several times, so I definitely don't look like the Great Ancestor!

  George Takei

  Running, Looks, Ancestor

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If I run I lose so much weight, which I need because you're limited on weight when you are a tall driver. And have you seen marathon runners? They're quite skinny.

  Jenson Button

  Running, Needs, Weight

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• Karate-do may be referred to as the conflict within yourself, or a life-long marathon which can be won only through self-discipline, hard training, and your own creative efforts.

  Shoshin Nagamine

  Self, Discipline, Long

  Shoshin Nagamine (2011). “Essence of Okinawan Karate-Do”, p.45, Tuttle Publishing

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• I have always preferred to liken the championship to a marathon. You have to know how to start the race, how to take the strain when problems come along and to make sure you don't give any potentially dangerous rivals an advantage. My policy is to ideally have five or six men around the age of 26, a couple of youngsters, a couple round the 28 mark and one or two in their 30s. But the nucleus of the team should be experienced and not too old.

  Bob Paisley

  Soccer, Couple, Team

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• I like the marathon because it's one race where you can find out who's really the toughest. On the track, sometimes a guy can just pull away, and you want to stay with him but you don't have the leg speed. The marathon is slow enough that anyone can stay with you if he wants, if he has the will. The marathon is ultimately a test of will.

  Alberto Salazar

  Race, Track, Guy

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• NYC Marathon cancelled: runners are scrambling to find some other meaningless accomplishment to use as a proxy for control over their lives.

  Nils Parker

  Nyc, Accomplishment, Use

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• There just isn’t a weak season of 'Breaking Bad.' There’s just superior work, a sprint toward evil that turned into a marathon. But like all big-talker shows that bring their heavy cargo in for a rough and breathlessly observed landing, 'Breaking Bad' didn’t quite leave itself enough runway to satisfactorily end some of its better story lines, especially once the chronology gap closed up between the flash-forwards from last year’s episodes and Sunday night’s conclusion. One could easily argue that there was just too much left to do in this one episode.

  Hank Stuever

  Sunday, Night, Years

  " TV ‘Breaking Bad’ finale: What happened to Walt — and to us" by Hank Stuever, www.washingtonpost.com. September 29, 2013.

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• In high school, during marathon phone conversations, cheap pizza dinners and long suburban car rides, I began to fall for boys because of who they actually were, or at least who I thought they might become.

  J. Courtney Sullivan

  Fall, School, Boys

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• Since I was forty and definitely slipping, I have won seven full marathons, got second six times, and third four times.... I'm wondering what I can do after I'm fifty.

  Clarence DeMar

  Endurance, Four, Fifty

  Clarence DeMar (2016). “Marathon: Autobiography of Clarence Demar- America's Grandfather of Running”, p.143, BookBaby

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• There are many pitfalls in the marathon of life. But regardless of what you go through, you can count on God's sustaining grace.

  Rick Warren

  Christian, Grace, Religion

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• I am thankful that there are different seasons in life and training. I have learned to embrace each season realizing how important it is to allow the body, mind and spirit to fully cycle through each. My current season of marathon training is my favorite. I love the simple life of training and going after a goal with everything I have.

  Ryan Hall

  Simple, Goal, Training

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• It's a long, hard road and it's going to have its bumps; there are going to be times when you fall and times when you don't feel like going on anymore, times when you're just crazy tired but it takes focusing on that one step you're taking. That's what I'm trying to do with the marathon; I don't think about the miles that are coming down the road, I don't think about the mile I'm on right now, I don't think about the miles I've already covered. I think about what I'm doing right now, just being lost in the moment.

  Ryan Hall

  Crazy, Fall, Tired

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• The more you frame the marathon as a stressful experience, the more negative messages you'll receive. But it's just as easy to frame it as a positively challenging journey.

  Jeff Galloway

  Journey, Challenges, Negative

  Jeff Galloway (2001). “Marathon: You Can Do It!”, p.80, Shelter Publications, Inc.

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• Finish: Even if you run a slower than expected time, you succeed in any marathon when you finish.

  Hal Higdon

  Running, Succeed, Expected

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• I believe people run marathons every day of their lives in one way or another, and we need to remember to give ourselves the finishers' medals we deserve.

  Zoe Koplowitz

  Running, Believe, People

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• I also feel it usually takes four or five races to hit your best marathon for your body to be accustomed to the training AND the race itself.

  Bill Rodgers

  Race, Training, Body

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• I ran the Boston Marathon out of love. I believe that love is the basis of all meaningful human endeavor. Yet it was a love that was incomplete until it was shared with others.

  Bobbi Gibb

  Meaningful, Believe, Love Is

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• When I first started running, I was so embarrassed I'd walk when cars passed me. I'd pretend I was looking at the flowers!

  Joan Benoit

  Funny, Sports, Running

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• Humans are built for endurance, not speed. We're awful sprinters compared to every other animal. We try to run our races as if they were speed races, but they are not. They're endurance races. Even a marathon, the way it's run now, it's not an endurance contest.

  Christopher McDougall

  Running, Animal, Race

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• It helps me sleep at night.

  George W. Bush

  Running, Sleep, Night

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• I enter myself in races. I did a triathlon, and I have done a marathon a couple of times.

  Stephen Mangan

  Couple, Race, Done

  "Balanced?". Interview with Stevie Brown, www.theguardian.com. April 14, 2006.

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