Runners Quotes - Page 19

• Well, stealing bases adds some runs but very few, and you lose most of the runs that you gain by having runners caught stealing.

  Bill James

  Running, Gains, Add

  "The Man Behind The 'Moneyball' Sabermetrics". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. September 26, 2011.

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• I never played with a runner in my entire life, even in schools, because only I know where the ball is going and how hard, when I hit the ball, something my runner will never know about.

  Sachin Tendulkar

  Sports, School, Balls

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• Good try, ya bugging shank. The Gathering elects Runners, and if you think I'm tough, they'd laugh in your face.

  James Dashner

  Thinking, Laughing, Trying

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• I swear it upon Zeus an outstanding runner cannot be the equal of an average wrestler.

  Socrates

  Sports, Wrestling, Average

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• The Greeks had a race in their Olympic games that was unique. The winner was not the runner who finished first. It was the runner who finished with his torch still lit. I want to run all the way with the flame of my torch still lit for Him.

  Joseph Stowell

  Christian, Running, Unique

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• Coaches and headmasters praise sport as a preparation for the great game of life, but this is absurd. Nothing could be more different from life. For one thing sports, unlike life, are played according to rules. Indeed, the rules are the sport: life may behave bizarrely and still be life, but if the runner circles the bases clockwise it's no longer baseball.

  Barbara Holland

  Sports, Baseball, Games

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• The so-called new Russian man is characterized mainly by his complete exhaustion. You may find yourself wondering if he has the strength to enjoy his new-found freedom. He is like a long-distance runner who, on reaching the finishing line, is incapable even of raising his hands in a gesture of victory.

  Ryszard Kapuscinski

  Distance, Men, Hands

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• In Nirvana, it is you, my friend, who goes away. You take an eraser and erase yourself. It's like the Road Runner cartoons where in the middle of the cartoon, the hand of the artist appears on the screen and erases the Road Runner.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Artist, Hands

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• The idea of being a show runner was very attractive to me, to create and control something.

  Nic Pizzolatto

  Ideas, Attractive, Shows

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• The novelist is more a marathon runner than long-distance runner and the kind of courage it takes working in such isolation cannot be underestimated. I really respect my fellow writers on this front.

  Tobsha Learner

  Distance, Long, Novelists

  "'Sphinx' by Tobsha Learner". The Australian Women's Weekly Interview, www.nowtolove.com.au. May 11, 2009.

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• I am an avid runner, mainly on weekends.

  Patrick Wilson

  Weekend, Avid

  "Face Time: Patrick Wilson". Interview with Tina Turnbow, tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com. January 06, 2012.

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• My brother was a big marathoner. He was a great collegiate runner at Beloit College. He won his conference's races, and he did tons of marathons. I would go out and run with him every once in a while just to hang out with him.

  Tate Donovan

  Running, Brother, College

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• I'm not a wushu champion. I was an athlete when I was a kid. I was a swimmer and a runner, but all this action stuff is such a challenge. It really, really is.

  Maggie Q

  Athlete, Kids, Challenges

  "Maggie Q Interview NIKITA". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 26, 2010.

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• Its very important that people know that I really enjoy everything that has happened to me. And I tell my kids... youre not going to be the tallest, fastest, prettiest, the best track runner, but you can be the nicest human being that someone has ever met in their life. And I just want to leave that legacy that being nice is a true treasure.

  George Foreman

  Nice, Kids, People

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• During the 2008 campaign, I strongly endorsed Barack Obama for president. I did so early, when many Democratic leaders - including many prominent African-American politicians - believed the safe bet was to back then-front-runner Hillary Clinton.

  Douglas Wilder

  Leader, African American, President

  Wilder: Obama needs to fire DNC "Chairman Kaine, W.H. advisers" by L. Douglas Wilder, www.politico.com. August 9, 2010.

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• In my opinion, the best setup guys now have a tougher job than the closers. They pitch more innings, inherit more runners.

  Goose Gossage

  Jobs, Guy, Opinion

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• A runner's stride is not perfectly efficient.

  Nancy Gibbs

  Stride, Not Perfect, Efficient

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• There is nothing in this world that I love more than my family. To be able to share the joy of running with them at the Runner's World Half Marathon and Running Festival where we can all participate together is as close as you can get to a perfect weekend.

  Summer Sanders

  Running, Weekend, Perfect

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• The Republicans tend to choose the candidate who came in second place in the last election, and Democrats tend to move on. Ask President Ed Muskie how it worked out to be the front-runner. Ask President Howard Dean how it worked out.

  Brian Schweitzer

  Leadership, Moving, President

  "I Do Not Trust Politicians". Interview with David Weigel, www.slate.com. January 6, 2014.

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• The rich survive and everyone else gets ready to work 2 1/2 to 3 1/2 jobs and what do you get? Blade Runner. Welcome to your science fiction. Your 21st century. I think that's where it goes. The rich get richer and everyone else... the middle class kind of starts dropping lower and lower.

  Henry Rollins

  Jobs, Thinking, Class

  Interview with Danny Stygion, www.sinicalmagazine.com. October 1, 2011.

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• Blade Runner was the godfather of all these fantastic movies that occur today. What's frustrating is that we're short of really great writing and great ideas. Blade Runner was full of them.

  Ridley Scott

  Writing, Ideas, Blade Runner

  Source: editorial.rottentomatoes.com

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• I like making comics and animation because it takes such a long time. I'm not a runner of the 100 meter. I like marathons. The longer it takes, the better I feel.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Long, Marathon, Meter

  Source: editorial.rottentomatoes.com

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• Based on my experience; I would develop fast speed before anything else. Get your young runners so they can run and teach them speed.

  Gerry Lindgren

  Running, Speed, Young

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

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• The best runners every year are those who race out way too fast.

  Gerry Lindgren

  Race, Years, Way

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

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• There are champions in every neighborhood. Anyone can run to the very top. ANYONE! But you have to (a) start right, (b) think right, and (c) believe. Most runners get lost in one or more of those three steps.

  Gerry Lindgren

  Running, Believe, Thinking

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

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