Top 19 Percy Cerutty Quotes
#1. If you die, I will bury you in the sandhills with all the other runners.
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#2. While a man is racing he must hate himself and his competitors.
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#3. Thus I urge you to go onto your greatness if you believe it is in you. Think deeply and separate what you wish from what you are prepared to do.
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#4. I'm not interested in athletics, I'm only interested in achievement. Fix your goal and work for it.
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#5. You only ever grow as a human being if you're outside your comfort zone.
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#6. Great people and great athletes realize early in their lives their destiny, and accept it. Even if they do not consciously realize the how, the where, the what.
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#7. But don't forget my ideas are only what's been written down in history by the great people of the world who've gone before. All I've done is condense the wisdom of the world into an attitude for athletics. Athletics aren't just running, it's a way of life
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#8. The mastery of the true self, and the refusal to permit others to dominate us, is the ultimate in living and self-expression in athletics.
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#9. If the coach cannot do it, he cannot 'teach' it-only talk about it.
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#10. Hard things take time to do. Impossible things take a little longer.
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#11. Let the smokers and the gluttons die ... and leave the living to us who know how to use it.
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#14. The introduction of resistance in form of sand and hill is too important to be ignored.
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#15. Pain is the purifier. Love pain. Embrace pain.
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#16. To be great, one does not have to be mad, but definitely it helps.
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#17. Runners don't run with their legs, they run ON their legs. In reality, they run with their Arms!
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#18. Endurance? You've only got to get out there and do it. Face up to it: man was meant to run.
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#19. Ignore, then, whether you are tall and thin or short and stocky- whether they laughed at you at home (where they are often unkind) or at school (where they are mostly blind, anyway). Indeed-to hell with the lot of them if you 'feel' you can do it.
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