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Middle Distance Runner Inspirational Quotes (181)

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The important thing is the attitude of the athlete, the desire to get to the top.
Herb Elliott
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When I was a little boy, I always wanted to run. I loved competing with my friends.
David Rudisha
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My real motivation is to reach 3:25... I am still young I have a lot of time left in my career.
Noureddine Morceli
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Without the concentration of the mind and the will, performance would not result.
Roger Bannister
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The weather plays a very big role. I have run very few races in the raining and the cold.
David Rudisha
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If you lived in Sheffield and were called Sebastian, you had to learn to run fast at a very early stage.
Sebastian Coe
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She hasn't run faster than herself before
Zola Budd
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Your spikes, which were really quite long then, would catch the material of the track and your shoe would get heavier. I was simply filing them down and rubbing some graphite on the spikes, so that I thought I would run more effectively.
Roger Bannister
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Make sure you eat healthy food. You can have the occasional treat, but you also need to balance your diet with foods such as meat and vegetables. It will prevent you from getting colds and enable you to train and to do whatever you want in every day life.
Jenny Meadows
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No longer conscious of my movement, I discovered a new unity with nature. I had found a new source of power and beauty, a source I never dreamt existed.
Roger Bannister
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In turn, more physicians, hospitals, and other health care providers are severely limiting their practices, moving to other states, or simply not providing care.
Jim Ryun
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I had over-trained. I put too much pressure on myself because I wanted that gold medal too much. If I had trained 15 per cent less, I would have won. I was training like a crazy person. There was a lack of self-confidence and a lack of maturity. An athlete does not only train with his body. He trains with his mind.
Hicham El Guerrouj
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The London Games will be designed for the athletes and we will provide them with the very best venues and the very best conditions to pursue their sporting dreams in London.
Sebastian Coe
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I raced supremely well. I felt I was as well fitted to do it as I had ever been, and as perhaps I might ever be. I went climbing three weeks before, because I was feeling fed up with running.
Roger Bannister
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It is a paradox to say the human body has no 'limit.' There must be a limit to the speed at which men can run. I feel this may be around 3:30 for the mile. However, another paradox remains - if an athlete manages to run 3:30, another runner could be found to marginally improve on that time.
Roger Bannister
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When I was about to break a world record and become well known, my mother used to say that for her the important thing was for me to become a doctor - a career which had not been possible in her generation and in her society. Sport was something to be set aside.
Roger Bannister
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Quite simply the Games are the biggest opportunity sport in this country has ever had. It is one that we must not squander.
Sebastian Coe
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I think it's one of the most natural things for any human to do is to be able to run because it's that flight or fight reaction you have. You either fight or you run away. It's just a natural way for us to move.
Zola Budd
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Nobody ever becomes an expert parent. But I think good parenting is about consistency. Its about being there at big moments, but its also just the consistency of decision making. And its routine.
Sebastian Coe
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It had always been a British preoccupation to hold this mile record.
Roger Bannister
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Our house was bombed, and the roof fell in. We were sitting under the stairs of the basement, and we were quite safe, but it brought home the realization. In two nights 400 people were killed in small town.
Roger Bannister
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Competing is exciting and winning is exhilarating, but the true prize will always be the self-knowledge and understanding that you have gained along the way.
Sebastian Coe
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There's no better feeling, even if I've won a race, than recording a personal best. It's setting yourself personal goals, but also realistic goals.
Jenny Meadows
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You get very tired, and there was a certain amount of pain and you slow up. Your legs are so tired that you are in fact slowing. If you don't keep running, keep your blood circulating, the muscles stop pumping the blood back and you get dizzy.
Roger Bannister
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