Quotes About Fast Runners

#1. Or why it is acceptable to train fast runners and high jumpers but not to breed them. I can think of some answers, and they are good ones, which would probably end up persuading me. But hasn't the time come when we should stop being frightened even to put the question?

Richard Dawkins

#2. 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

#3. The main quality a great third base coach must have is a fast runner.

Rocky Bridges

#4. Affectation of candour is common enough - one meets with it everywhere. But to be candid without ostentation or design - to take the good of everybody's character and make it still better, and say nothing of the bad - belongs to you alone.

Jane Austen

#5. Some runners judge performance by whether they won or lost. Others define success or failure by how fast they ran. Only you can judge your performance. Avoid letting others sit in judgment of you.

Hal Higdon

#6. I am a runner because I run. Not because I run fast. Not because I run far. I am a runner because I say I am. And no one can tell me I'm not.

John Bingham

#7. The best runners every year are those who race out way too fast.

Gerry Lindgren

#8. Liver, lungs, heads, tails, kidneys, testicles, all of these things which are traditional, delicious and nutritious parts of our gastronomy go to waste.

Tristram Stuart

#9. 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

#10. It's the same thing now. When I go onstage the young people scream and holler as much as the older generation.

Etta James

#11. We have nothing to fear but fear itself," Otto replied. "Oh, and a megalomaniacal headmaster, the world's deadliets assassin, giant mutated plant monsters, an international cartel of supervillains, and the security forces of every country on earth, but other than that ... just fear.

Mark Walden

#12. I know this is going to sound weird but this kind of love is almost too intense. It hurts a bit. It feels almost like loss.

Sergio De La Pava

#13. I wake up late, say 10 or 11, because we've usually been out and about town until 2 or 3 A.M. listening to music at the jazz clubs or hitting the jazz clubs post-theater.

Tamara Tunie

#14. Many runners worry about who is in the race, or they think about the time they must run to win. I only try to run as fast as I am capable - nothing less.

Henry Rono

#15. Mr. Collins shook his head. "Stay off the roof," he ordered. Then he paused. "Stay off all the roofs." The fact that he felt he had to make that clarification told me a great deal about Asher Rhodes.

Jennifer Lynn Barnes

#16. Why can't I be naked baby?!

Randy Orton

#17. Lots of things could kill you. Fire. Ice. Why not sadness?

Jessica Martinez

#18. Body follows mind. If the mind compares itself to others this could lead to overtraining. Tune out what other runners do and how fast they run. Tune in, instead, to how your body wants to increase speed and distance.

Gina Greenlee