Amby Burfoot Quotes

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• I have learned that there is no failure in running, or in life, as long as you keep moving.

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  Running, Moving, Long

  Amby Burfoot (2000). “The Runner's Guide to the Meaning of Life: What 35 Years of Running Have Taught Me About Winning, Losing, Happiness, Humility, and the Human Heart”, p.77, Rodale

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• Running has taught me, perhaps more than anything else, that there's no reason to fear starting lines... or other new beginnings.

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  Running, New Beginnings, Lines

  Amby Burfoot (2000). “The Runner's Guide to the Meaning of Life: What 35 Years of Running Have Taught Me About Winning, Losing, Happiness, Humility, and the Human Heart”, p.9, Rodale

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• You have to want it, you have to plan for it, you have to fit it into a busy day, you have to be mentally tough, you have to use others to help you. The hard part isn't getting your body in shape. The hard part is getting your mind in shape.

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  Mind, Use, Body

  Amby Burfoot (2005). “Runner's World Complete Book of Beginning Running”, p.47, Rodale

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• The most powerful lesson you can learn in running? You're capable of much more than you think.

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  Running, Powerful, Thinking

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• In running, it doesn't matter how fast or slow you are relative to anyone else. You set your own pace and you measure your own progress. You can't lose this race because you're not running against anyone else. You're only running against yourself, and as long as you are running, you are winning.

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  Running, Winning, Race

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• I always tell beginning runners: Train your brain first. It's much more important than your heart or legs.

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  Sports, Running, Heart

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• Life is a marathon, not a sprint; pace yourself accordingly.

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  Life, Running, Track And Field

  Amby Burfoot (2000). “The Runner's Guide to the Meaning of Life: What 35 Years of Running Have Taught Me About Winning, Losing, Happiness, Humility, and the Human Heart”, p.15, Rodale

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• Winning has nothing to do with racing. Most days don't have races anyway. Winning is about struggle and effort and optimism, and never, ever, ever giving up.

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  Running, Giving Up, Struggle

  Amby Burfoot (2000). “The Runner's Guide to the Meaning of Life: What 35 Years of Running Have Taught Me About Winning, Losing, Happiness, Humility, and the Human Heart”, p.31, Rodale

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• It's not about speed and gold medals. It's about refusing to be stopped.

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  Running, Gold, Speed

  Amby Burfoot (2000). “The Runner's Guide to the Meaning of Life: What 35 Years of Running Have Taught Me About Winning, Losing, Happiness, Humility, and the Human Heart”, p.77, Rodale

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• If you train your mind for running, everything else will be easy.

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  Running, Mind, Easy

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• To get to the finish line, you'll have to try lots of different paths.

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  Running, Trying, Lines

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• As runners, we all go through many transitions-- transitions that closely mimic the larger changes we experience in a lifetime. First, we try to run faster. Then we try to run harder. Then we learn to accept ourselves and our limitations, and at last, we can appreciate the true joy and meaning of running.

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  Running, True Joy, Appreciate

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• I have learned that there is no failure in running, or in life, as long as you keep moving. It's not about speed. And gold medals. It's about refusing to be stopped. you might find that one particular direction proves difficult, but there are many directions on a compass. Infinite, in fact. As long as you keep searching, you'll find your winning way.

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  Running, Moving, Winning

  Amby Burfoot (2000). “The Runner's Guide to the Meaning of Life: What 35 Years of Running Have Taught Me About Winning, Losing, Happiness, Humility, and the Human Heart”, p.77, Rodale

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• I run because I enjoy it — not always, but most of the time. I run because I have always run — not trained, but run. What do I get? Joy and pain. Good health and injuries. Exhilaration and despair. A feeling of accomplishment and a feeling of waste. The sunrise and the sunset.

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  Running, Pain, Sunset

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• That's the beauty of starting lines: Until you begin a new venture, you never know what awaits you.

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  Running, New Ventures, Lines

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• As we run, we become.

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  Running

  Amby Burfoot (2000). “The Runner's Guide to the Meaning of Life: What 35 Years of Running Have Taught Me About Winning, Losing, Happiness, Humility, and the Human Heart”, p.9, Rodale

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• Winning is not about headlines and hardware [medals]. It's only about attitude. A winner is a person who goes out today and every day and attempts to be the best runner and best person he can be. Winning is about struggle and effort and optimism, and never, ever, ever giving up.

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  Giving Up, Attitude, Struggle

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• Why run? I run because I am an animal. I run because it is part of my genetic wiring. I run because millions of years of evolution have left me programmed to run. And finally, I run because there’s no better way to see the sun rise and set... What the years have shown me is that running clarifies the thinking process as well as purifies the body. I think best - most broadly and most fully - when I am running.

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  Running, Thinking, Animal

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• Don't judge your running by your speed.

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  Running, Judging, Speed

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• Courage is crossing a starting line.

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  Lines, Starting, Crossings

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• It's what runners do. We keep on keeping on

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  Runners

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• Running removes us briefly from the fragmentation and depersonalization of the digital world

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  Running, World, Digital

  Amby Burfoot (2000). “The Runner's Guide to the Meaning of Life: What 35 Years of Running Have Taught Me About Winning, Losing, Happiness, Humility, and the Human Heart”, p.24, Rodale

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• Here’s my mantra: ‘Every mile is a gift.’

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  Miles, Mantras

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• Success does not come to the most righteous and rigorously disciplined but to those who continue running.

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  Running, Inspirational Running, Doe

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• The true but rare runner's high is a zone that we enter when everything seems to click perfectly, when time stands still, and when we can run almost without effort.

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  Running, Effort, Clicks

  Amby Burfoot (2000). “The Runner's Guide to the Meaning of Life: What 35 Years of Running Have Taught Me About Winning, Losing, Happiness, Humility, and the Human Heart”, p.80, Rodale

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