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I've always liked hills. I see a challenge, a goal, and I feel instantly galvanized to achieve that goal.

Amby Burfoot

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Amby Burfoot
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: August 19
Journalist
Marathon Runner
Feel
Galvanized
Feels
Instantly
Always
Hills
Liked
Challenge
Achieve
Challenges
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As we run, we become.
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Running has taught me, perhaps more than anything else, that there's no reason to fear starting lines... or other new beginnings.
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It's what runners do. We keep on keeping on
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Winning is not about headlines and hardware [medals]. It's only about attitude. A winner is a person who goes out today and every day and attempts to be the best runner and best person he can be. Winning is about struggle and effort and optimism, and never, ever, ever giving up.
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Running removes us briefly from the fragmentation and depersonalization of the digital world
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Don't judge your running by your speed.
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Success does not come to the most righteous and rigorously disciplined but to those who continue running.
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Here’s my mantra: ‘Every mile is a gift.’
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I have learned that there is no failure in running, or in life, as long as you keep moving.
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I always tell beginning runners: Train your brain first. It's much more important than your heart or legs.
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It's not about speed and gold medals. It's about refusing to be stopped.
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Courage is crossing a starting line.
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The most powerful lesson you can learn in running? You're capable of much more than you think.
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To get to the finish line, you'll have to try lots of different paths.
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As runners, we all go through many transitions-- transitions that closely mimic the larger changes we experience in a lifetime. First, we try to run faster. Then we try to run harder. Then we learn to accept ourselves and our limitations, and at last, we can appreciate the true joy and meaning of running.
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Set a goal and a program for yourself, and everything else will follow. Guaranteed.
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Too many people have refused to begin running or have quickly dropped out of running programs because they 'have no talent for it.' Ridiculous. Talent has nothing to do with it. The only thing that matters is mental discipline.
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You have to want it, you have to plan for it, you have to fit it into a busy day, you have to be mentally tough, you have to use others to help you. The hard part isn't getting your body in shape. The hard part is getting your mind in shape.
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In running, it doesn't matter how fast or slow you are relative to anyone else. You set your own pace and you measure your own progress. You can't lose this race because you're not running against anyone else. You're only running against yourself, and as long as you are running, you are winning.
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Motivation is a skill. It can be learned and practiced.
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