Top 71 Lindgren Quotes
#1. Set a master goal for your running and for your life.
Gerry Lindgren
#2. Set a new standard. Change reality. Break ground to something new and different. That achievement will live forever just because you WERE somebody special!
Gerry Lindgren
#3. There is NOTHING you can do with your running time that is better for you than running. Any other activity only pulls you down and erases passion.
Gerry Lindgren
#4. Pippi stroking his back. 'Bosh, that was a true fib,' she added. 'But if it was true, how could it be a fib? Perhaps when all's said and done, he really has been a butler in Sourabaya, after all! Well, if that's so, I know who's going
Astrid Lindgren
#5. He's the strongest man in the world.'
'Man, yes,' said Pippi, 'but I am the strongest girl in the world, remember that.
Astrid Lindgren
#6. If I have brightened up one single sad childhood, then I have at least accomplished something in my life.
Astrid Lindgren
#7. I just wanted to quit running. My coach, Tracy Walters, took me aside and told me that I had an opportunity few people ever get. He said that I could inspire the whole team because I was so small and unathletic.
Gerry Lindgren
#8. A modern person has no energy to love any other time than his own.
Torgny Lindgren
#9. If you look at your life and compare your life to that of an evil person, you will find that in most regards both lives are the same. You don't live a longer life or live forever by being virtuous.
Gerry Lindgren
#10. There is very little you can beat into a child, but no limit to what you can hug out of it.
Astrid Lindgren
#11. Then she yelled after the girl, 'No, we haven't seen any bald 'uns all days. But yesterday seventeen of 'em went by. Arm in arm!
Astrid Lindgren
#12. Speedwork is terribly overrated! I remember talking to runners after distance races and someone is sure to say they were able to run fast off base work with no speed work at all. The truth is speedwork doesn't work. Lots of miles, and then fast miles gets you there much quicker than speed work.
Gerry Lindgren
#13. Goals should be impossible! You should tread FEARLESSLY where the brave dare not go.
Gerry Lindgren
#14. News people were holding me up as a symbol of defiance to the boycott and I couldn't even run.
Gerry Lindgren
#15. This life is made to change all reality. We are here for the benefit, happiness, and welfare of a new reality; a new direction.
Gerry Lindgren
#16. The only thing that lives beyond the grave is the wake you have created by the way you have lived your life; the goals you have set; the distance away from the normal you dared to tread.
Gerry Lindgren
#17. Run with your heart instead of your mind. When you think with your mind, you think of the things you can and can't do. But when you run with your heart you forget about what you can't do, and you just go out and do it.
Gerry Lindgren
#18. Ideally I would start by racing my athletes once every two weeks. But, such a program has to be flexible because some runners improve better with weekly races or even bi-weekly races. A coach has to adjust to what is best for the runner.
Gerry Lindgren
#19. After college I picked my races to be one race every two weeks. That gave me time to recover. I raced just as fast as my legs would carry me. At the end of every race there was nothing left. I walked off the track completely spent!
Gerry Lindgren
#20. If I performed poorly, I knew the eyes of the sports world would be turned away from me. In that situation I knew the NCAA would crush me for sure. But if I could run well, they would not dare to hit me with everyone looking in my direction. I HAD to have a good race.
Gerry Lindgren
#21. The best runners every year are those who race out way too fast.
Gerry Lindgren
#22. The FEAR of becoming dehydrated causes dehydration. As with so many things in our life, it is because we KNOW it is a problem that it is a problem.
Gerry Lindgren
#23. I would instill in my team an attitude of role modeling. We run to teach other people the value of physical activity. In all things, be humble and appreciative; hurt no one; help anyone you can.
Gerry Lindgren
#24. I thought perhaps people with injuries could be subject to a starters gun to cure them.
Gerry Lindgren
#26. As we were walking along, Britta took her book out of her schoolbag and smelled it. She let all of us smell it. New books smell so good you can tell how much fun it's going to be to read them.
Astrid Lindgren
#27. Everyone dies whether one is good in their lifetime or evil in their lifetime. So virtue has no payback. Life is meaningless. When you die, you die!
Gerry Lindgren
#28. I started running in Junior High School. I was so slow and uncoordinated the coach set me up with a paper route so that instead of going to work out after school I went to the corner of Providence Ave at Crestline St. and picked up a bundle of 15 newspapers.
Gerry Lindgren
#29. Kids are afraid that if they race too fast they will get tired. Way too much fear and way too little COURAGE.
Gerry Lindgren
#30. I don't want to write for adults. I want to write for readers who can perform miracles. Only children perform miracles when they read.
Astrid Lindgren
#31. Don't let them get you down. Be cheeky. And wild. And wonderful.
Astrid Lindgren
#32. Based on my experience; I would develop fast speed before anything else. Get your young runners so they can run and teach them speed.
Gerry Lindgren
#33. But Nightshirts aren't dangerous," Pippi assured her. "They don't bite anybody except in self defense.
Astrid Lindgren
#34. What should a good children's book be like? If you ask me, I can tell you after thinking long and hard: It must be good.
Astrid Lindgren
#35. The 3-minute mile goal is to teach runners that the impossible is where goals should be set.
Gerry Lindgren
#36. There are champions in every neighborhood. Anyone can run to the very top. ANYONE! But you have to (a) start right, (b) think right, and (c) believe. Most runners get lost in one or more of those three steps.
Gerry Lindgren
#37. Aren't you going to dry the floor?' asked Annika.
'Oh, no, it can dry in the sun,' answered Pippi. 'I don't think it will catch cold so long as it keeps moving.
Astrid Lindgren
#38. Everything great that ever happened in this world happened first in somebody's imagination.
Astrid Lindgren
#39. Setting goals that have already been achieved is a cop-out.
Gerry Lindgren
#40. I got into running because I was too uncoordinated to play baseball, too small for basketball, and too tiny for football. I lived in a broken home and had looked to those sports as a way of staying away from my home.
Gerry Lindgren
#41. You understand Teacher, don't you, that when you have a mother who's an angel and a father who is a cannibal king, and when you have sailed on the ocean all your whole life, then you don't know just how to behave in school with all the apples and ibexes.
Astrid Lindgren
#42. I should be doing that too. I should be out there running and racing. I should be taking care of my body.
Gerry Lindgren
#43. I have been very interested in labor movement. If I could have wished another life, I would have loved to be a pioneer woman in the beginning of labor movement.
Astrid Lindgren
#44. and just stared at the children with her big cow-eyes. To
Astrid Lindgren
#45. It's definitely best for little children to have a regular life, especially if they can regulate it themselves.
Astrid Lindgren
#46. I don't mind dying, I'll gladly do that, but not right now, I need to clean the house first.
Astrid Lindgren
#47. If you KNOW dehydration is a problem in long runs it becomes a problem in long runs.
Gerry Lindgren
#48. Of course it's almost ludicrously difficult to talk about art. And about beauty. Beauty is a perversion--how can you retain your self-respect when you talk about it?
Torgny Lindgren
#49. My key to victory was that I always went out way too fast. Too fast erases every other race strategy out there. Everyone is hanging on for dear life or they give up.
Gerry Lindgren
#50. What the world of tomorrow will be like is greatly dependent on the power of imagination in those who are learning to read today.
Astrid Lindgren
#51. I never did cross training or lifted weights or put anything between myself and my passion for running.
Gerry Lindgren
#52. I have never experienced being madly in love the way most people seem to have been, although it is not something I would miss. Instead I have had an enormous ability to love my children and my grandchildren and my great grandchildren.
Astrid Lindgren
#53. I have never tried that before, so I think I should definitely be able to do that.
Astrid Lindgren
#54. I hope you won't mind, my dear, if we take it," said Thunder Karlsson.
"Oh, not at all," said Pippi. "Of course not."
And with that, Blom went over and took out the suitcase.
"I hope you won't mind, my dear, if I take it back," said Pippi, as she climbed out of bed and went over to Blom.
Astrid Lindgren
#55. Don't you worry about me. I'll always come out on top.
Astrid Lindgren
#56. But I'm the strongest girl in the world, don't forget.
Astrid Lindgren
#57. When you hit a certain spot you Sprint no matter how you feel inside or what your co-runner thinks. You just go! In training as a nickel, you sprint because you need to sprint! You just do it! In racing people see it and call it courage, but it is attitude; determination; duty.
Gerry Lindgren
#58. I have noticed several times that people don't think I know how to behave even when I'm trying as hard as I can.
Astrid Lindgren
#59. I'm so grateful to Hugo Lindgren, Jon Kelly, and the people who gave me the opportunity to write a weekly column. It's an amazing thing to do, and when I started they both said, you know, the problem with columns is they just exist forever.
David Plotz
#60. Chef Matt Accarrino has the best pasta in San Francisco, and Shelley Lindgren is one of my favorite sommeliers. Their attention to detail in the service, food, and amazing wines will blow anyone away.
Elizabeth Falkner
#63. No Fridolf, bother all this learning. I can't study anymore because I must climb the mast to see what kind of weather we're going to have tomorrow.
Astrid Lindgren
#64. I always enjoyed the training more than I did the racing. There was a high level of anxiety in racing that I did not enjoy. Training runs set me FREE. I could imagine the race in my mind and race as if it were the actual race.
Gerry Lindgren
#65. I had on my team a girl who at age twelve just missed the world mile record for her age group. But at 20 she just couldn't run.
Gerry Lindgren
#66. Kids as young as twelve CAN run 90 minutes, and they can train hard to run fast, BUT they lose something in training hard at that early age.
Gerry Lindgren
#67. We didn't keep track of how many miles we ran back then. We just ran. If you LOVE to run with the kind of passion I have for running, you will understand this. Running was my mode of transportation.
Gerry Lindgren
#68. Wanting to win races is detrimental to courage. You tend to run too conservatively because you want to wait and sprint. If you are there to force the pace, to CREATE greatness rather than to have greatness, Courageous moves are a part of your race.
Gerry Lindgren
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Astrid Lindgren
#70. COURAGE is not a quality you teach. Courage is the by-product of self-discipline. It is an ATTITUDE.
Gerry Lindgren
#71. Instead, I ask you with all my heart, come back to Matt's fort with us now! It's not because I like you - don't think that, whatever you do! But, my daughter does - I know that now - and perhaps I can learn too.
Astrid Lindgren
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