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Frank Shorter Inspirational Quotes (29)
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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
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
To put it another way, Michael Jordan was a gym rat.
Frank Shorter
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
I think he had a wake-up call. It's a different kind of race, and I think maybe he didn't take it quite as seriously as he might have, but you can bet he learned a lot of lessons.
Frank Shorter
You train best where you are the happiest.
Frank Shorter
Why couldn't Pheidippides have died at 20 miles?
Frank Shorter
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
It is not the time spent with the child at their activity that is going to produce the highest level athlete. It is in supporting the child in an organized activity so the child can find what they truly like to do and let them go.
Frank Shorter
Hills are speedwork in disguise.
Frank Shorter
When you first run up First Avenue in New York, if you don't get goose bumps, theres something wrong with you.
Frank Shorter
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
When you are caring about your children perhaps you always have to remember at what point you can become over involved because of something you need rather than something the child needs.
Frank Shorter
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
I want my time spent running to serve as a reward.
Frank Shorter
There's obviously some validity to it. But I think it also points out that you obviously can do it on your own because people have been doing it long before they had the stuff.
Frank Shorter
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
For the novice runner, I'd say to give yourself at least 2 months of consistently running several times a week at a conversational pace before deciding whether you want to stick with it. Consistency is the most important aspect of training at this point.
Frank Shorter
I plan to be running as long as I can and have no plans to stop.
Frank Shorter
The marathon is all about energy management. I had planned to run it like a track race with strategic surges to blow up my competitors by putting them into oxygen debt, so that is the way I prepared.
Frank Shorter
The weather is perfect. The gods are shining on us.
Frank Shorter
The irony of that is, what makes it kind of ironic, is when you do become successful as a professional athlete in particular, a lot of the young children who are emulating these stars do have a different perspective.
Frank Shorter
You don't run 26 miles at five minutes a mile on good looks and a secret recipe.
Frank Shorter
I admire runners older than I - they are now my heroes. I want to be like them as I grow older.
Frank Shorter
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