Endurance Races Quotes

#1. Humans are built for endurance, not speed. We're awful sprinters compared to every other animal. We try to run our races as if they were speed races, but they are not. They're endurance races. Even a marathon, the way it's run now, it's not an endurance contest.

Christopher McDougall

#2. You ended up hurting as well. That's pretty obvious." She leaned over and ruffled his hair. "Sucks when the spider falls for the fly.

Belinda McBride

#3. I don't do meditation. That's not for me. It's not my thing.

Caroline Myss

#4. We are all strangers in a strange land, longing for home, but not quite knowing what or where home is. We glimpse it sometimes in our dreams, or as we turn a corner, and suddenly there is a strange, sweet familiarity that vanishes almost as soon as it comes.

Madeleine L'Engle

#5. The greatest lesson you might ever learn in this life is this: It is not about you.

Shannon L. Alder

#6. In athletics, older runners tend to go for longer races, but it's the opposite in swimming because your body can't handle the endurance.

Kirsty Coventry

#7. I am in limbo, and in limbo there are no races, no prizes, no changes, no chances. There are merely degrees of endurance, and endurance never was my strong point.

Keri Hulme

#8. The harmonica is the most voice-like instrument, you can make it wail, feel happy, or cry. It's like singing the blues without words.

Charlie Musselwhite

#9. I've done so many interviews over the years in so many different languages. Radios. Papers. Magazines. There's always another interview to do. It's quite something, I have to say.

Roger Federer

#10. We're not handed situations based on our established likes and dislikes; we get what's available.

Meghan Daum

#11. Ireland starts for me with the end of 'The Dead,' which my father read to me from his desk in his basement office in New Albany, Ind.

John Jeremiah Sullivan

#12. When Alexander of Macedon was 33, he cried salt tears because there were no more worlds to conquer. Eric Bristow is only 27.

Sid Waddell

#13. I'm not very much of a reader really, because I find much of it very bad, very uninteresting, very speculative.

Henning Mankell

#14. And stop talking in that puffed-up way they taught you. Words aren't brains, you know.

Deepak Chopra

#15. When it comes to the Yellow Races overruning the world, you may laugh ... [The Chinese] have neither the foresight or endurance to overrun any white country in any way except by intermarriage. One American marine could stand off a great many yellowmen without much effort.

L. Ron Hubbard

#16. I can write about all of these bizarre and funny characters in my book, "Diggin' Elroy," because I know them better than anyone else. I have a little bit of all of them in me.

Walt Griffin