Marathon Quotes - Page 16

• I have not had the chance to go out there and do myself justice in an Olympic marathon yet. I have not been able to get to an Olympic marathon injury-free yet.

  Paula Radcliffe

  Justice, Able, Chance

  "Paula Radcliffe plans to run on past London 2012 Olympics". www.theguardian.com. May 27, 2010.

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• If you look back at my marathons and ask whether I would swap one of them for my one balls-up, of course I would. But you can't choose. You have to make the best of it on the day.

  Paula Radcliffe

  Balls, Looks, Make The Best Of It

  "Marathon mum" by Duncan Mackay, www.theguardian.com. December 08, 2007.

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• Plenty of people who are 38 have run really well in the marathon.

  Paula Radcliffe

  Running, People, Wells

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• I'm pretty proud of having completed a marathon myself, so I can only imagine the pride that real athletes feel when they are picked for the Olympic or the Paralympic Games.

  Johann Lamont

  Real, Athlete, Pride

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• When I make a live-action movie, it's a very physical process. It's like running a marathon.

  Zack Snyder

  Running, Action, Process

  Interview with Daniel Barna, www.askmen.com.

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• I wanted to try marathon running, but something always came up: I had a baby and a C-section or I got injured or I just didn't think I could run that far.

  Veronica Webb

  Running, Baby, Thinking

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• I ran the L.A. marathon and really loved the experience. Communal and wild and a gigantic challenge. Finishing that marathon means I can do more than I think. I think.

  Michael Weatherly

  Mean, Thinking, Challenges

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• The gun goes off and everthing changes... the world changes... and nothing else really matters.

  PattiSue Plumer

  Motivational, Running, Gun

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• If you're ninety-five percent of the way to outstanding success, doesn't it make sense to go the additional five percent of the way? ... A marathon which takes hours to run, can be won or lost by a matter of seconds.

  Ralph Marston

  Success, Running, Matter

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• I was thinking back to all the time in the gym, working hard, and that spurred me on [winning New York marathon just ten months after giving birth

  Paula Radcliffe

  New York, Winning, Thinking

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• Most people have this perception that you have to be out there running for an hour and a half every day. But you don't have to give up your career and family to run a marathon.

  Jeff Galloway

  Running, Giving Up, Careers

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• I pulled a hamstring during the New York City Marathon. An hour into the race, I jumped off the couch.

  David Letterman

  Running, New York, Cities

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• If youre a vegan who ran a marathon & got your dogs from a shelter, how do you decide which thing to wedge into the conversation first?

  Ken Jennings

  Dog, Shelter, Firsts

  FaceBook post by Ken Jennings from Apr 19, 2012

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• The mountains look on Marathon And Marathon looks on the sea; And musing there an hour alone, I dreamed that Greece might still be free.

  Robert Byron

  Sea, Mountain, Looks

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• Yesterday was the New York City Marathon. The marathon was won in record time by a Democrat candidate running away from President Obama.

  Conan O'Brien

  Running, New York, Cities

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• Yesterday was the New York City Marathon. Republicans won in a landslide.

  David Letterman

  New York, Cities, Yesterday

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• I always tell the players, "We are in the business that's very much like a marathon race only we're gonna be doing it for 260-something days or so." And the race is something you get ready to do. There's gonna be some trial inside of there, but you put yourself through it because ultimately it brings a lot of meaning to your life, it gives a lot of energy to what you're doing.

  Phil Jackson

  Player, Race, Giving

  "Sunday Conversation: Phil Jackson". Interview with Jim Gray, www.espn.com. October 02, 2005.

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• Whatever your body type is, just use it. There are definitely things that I can do that skinnier people can't do. But then there are things that skinnier people do that I'll never be able to do, like run a marathon. There's just no way that will ever happen.

  Amanda Bingson

  Running, People, Body Types

  "Amanda Bingson: 'Athletes come in all shapes and sizes'". Interview with Morty Ain, www.espn.com. July 6, 2015.

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• Just as you can't become a marathon runner by watching marathons on TV, likewise for science, you have to go through the thought processes of doing science and not just watch your instructor do it.

  Eric Mazur

  Watches, Tvs, Process

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• If people were possessed by reason, running marathons would never work. But we are not creatures of reason. We are creatures of passion.

  Noel Carroll

  Running, Passion, People

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• I really do believe that chance favours a prepared mind. Wallace Stegner, who was one of my teachers when I was at Stanford, preached that writing a novel is not something that can be done in a sprint. That it's a marathon. You have to pace yourself. He himself wrote two pages every day and gave himself a day off at Christmas. His argument was at the end of a year, no matter what, you'd got 700 pages and that there's got to be something worth keeping.

  Scott Turow

  Teacher, Believe, Writing

  "'To hell with Perry Mason'". Interview with Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. November 24, 2002.

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• Novels are a marathon, while comic scripts are a sprint.

  Duane Swierczynski

  Scripts, Comic, Novel

  "Crime novelist Duane Swierczynski on shedding the Spanx for noir in the new BLACK HOOD #1". Interview with Donna Dickens, uproxx.com. January 28, 2015.

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• I find that I get a little depressed if I don't move my body each day, so sometimes it's just as simple as walking, and other times it's training for a marathon or some kind of personal goal that I'm trying to meet.

  Ryan Reynolds

  Moving, Simple, Goal

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• I would say to people is, that investigation, as it has already been stated, is a marathon and not a sprint. But it is one of great concern to the American people. And so we're committed to keeping people informed.

  Barack Obama

  People, Investigation, Committed

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• I want to do a movie on sports - like a movie on a racer or a marathon runner - as I feel I'll fit that bill perfectly.

  Bipasha Basu

  Sports, Want, Bills

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