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Middle Distance Runner Inspirational Quotes (181)

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During long, slow distance training, you should think of yourself as a thoroughbred disguised as a plow horse. No need to give yourself away by running fast.
Marty Liquori
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World records are only borrowed.
Sebastian Coe
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I came from such a simple origin, without any great privilege, and I would say I also wanted to make a mark. It wasn't until I was about 15 that I appeared in a race.
Roger Bannister
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Running became boring because it's so predictable. I got to a point where I knew what my competition could do.
Peter Snell
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I was ready in 2008 for the Olympic Games but unfortunately I missed the Kenyan trials with a thigh injury. I watched those Olympics but it was tough to watch. But it was good in the end because a Kenyan, Wilfred Bungei, was the champion.
David Rudisha
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We have a strong agricultural heritage in Kansas.
Jim Ryun
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Even if the pace is slow in championships, you can still sprint well and still power in the last 200, which is always the main part when the race is slow.
David Rudisha
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My family actually lived in the same village for about 400 years. They had great stability until the last century. People lived and intermarried in small villages.
Roger Bannister
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I believe in God. He is the secret of my success. He gives people talent.
Noureddine Morceli
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I succeed on my own personal motivation, dedication, and commitment. My mindset is: If I'm not out there training, someone else is.
Lynn Jennings
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When you put yourself on the line in a race and expose yourself to the unknown, you learn things about yourself that are very exciting.
Doris Brown Heritage
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I couldn't touch my toes with straight legs, but I could break 4 minutes for the mile.
Roger Bannister
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When you are no longer a boy, you have to be tough.
Bernard Lagat
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To understand Cerutty you have to see him as a multifaceted personality. He could be both charming and very abusive. He was extremely amusing and darn good company providing you weren't quarrelling with him.
John Landy
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I run around in circles, professionally.
Nick Symmonds
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I hadn't a clue who I was racing against. All I knew was how I was going to race.
Herb Elliott
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You never know the limit of a human being.
Alberto Juantorena
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Sometimes, when I walk out onto the track I think, 'What am I doing here? Why do I put myself through this?' But that's when you really get into your focus ... you focus on the race you are going to run.
Kelly Holmes
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I've been involved in the sport since I was seven-years-old and I have learned so many things in life from it, such as making friends and discipline.
Jenny Meadows
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Sport is a universal language, building more bridges between people than anything else I can think of.
Sebastian Coe
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I believed that we had to answer the question: Why are we doing this? And it wasn’t until we started to articulate, internally as an organisation, that it was about using the Games to inspire young people to participate in sports that we each understood what we had to do.
Sebastian Coe
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It is the brain, not the heart or lungs, that is the critical organ.
Roger Bannister
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Yes, I'm afraid the life over here is very different from N.Z. but oh boy it's a grand life.
Jack Lovelock
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Blink and you miss a sprint. The 10,000 meters is lap after lap of waiting. Theatrically, the mile is just the right length: beginning, middle, end, a story unfolding.
Sebastian Coe
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