Emil Zatopek Quotes About Running

• A runner must run with dreams in his heart.

  Emil Zatopek

  Fitness, Running, Dream

• If you want to run, run a mile. If you want to experience a different life, run a marathon.

  Emil Zatopek

  Running, Different, Want

• An athlete cannot run with money in his pockets. He must run with hope in his heart and dreams in his head.

  Emil Zatopek

  Inspirational, Sports, Running

  Quoted by Christopher Brasher in the Observer,12 Sep 1982.

• If one can stick to the training throughout the many long years, then will power is no longer a problem. It's raining? That doesn't matter. I am tired? That's besides the point. It's simply that I just have to.

  Emil Zatopek

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

• If I can get better, why not?

  Emil Zatopek

  Running, Get Better, Why Not

• It's at the borders of pain and suffering that the men are separated from the boys.

  Emil Zatopek

  Running, Pain, Not Giving Up

  Attributed to Emil Zatopek in "Citius, Altius, Fortius" ("Swifter, Higher, Stronger"), an unsigned article from Khaleej Times, August 8, 2008.

• I was unable to walk for a whole week after that, so much did the race take out of me. But it was the most pleasant exhaustion I have ever known.

  Emil Zatopek

  Running, Race, Marathon

• Why should I practice running slow? I already know how to run slow. I want to learn to run fast.

  Emil Zatopek

  Running, Practice, Romance

• If you come to think of it, you never see deer, dogs and rabbits worrying about their menus and yet they run much faster than humans.

  Emil Zatopek

  Running, Dog, Thinking

• I was not talented enough to run and smile at the same time

  Emil Zatopek

  Running, Athlete, Olympics

• When I was young, I was too slow. I thought I must learn to run fast by practicing to run fast, so I ran 100 meters fast 20 times. Then I came back, slow,slow,slow. People said, 'Emil, you are crazy. You are training like a sprinter.'

  Emil Zatopek

  Running, Crazy, People

• My running was very simple; it was out of myself.

  Emil Zatopek

  Running, Simple

• One day the factory sports coach, who was very strict, pointed at four boys, including me, and ordered us to run in a race. I protested that I was weak and not fit to run, but the coach sent me for a physical examination and the doctor said that I was perfectly well. So I had to run, and when I got started I felt I wanted to win. But I only came in second. That was the way it started.

  Emil Zatopek

  Sports, Running, Winning

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