Gerry Lindgren Quotes About Running

Quotes about: Running

• 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

  Motivational, Running, Heart

• When I first came into international running, most runners did about 60-70 miles or running a week. I guess that is still the standard except for Kenya and Ethiopia. I was doing 150-250 a week and some weeks as high as 350. It was unheard of! But, because I did not have access to what was possible and standard, I had to set my own possibilities and standards. I was just lucky enough to be out of the loop and not know.

  Gerry Lindgren

  Running, Lucky, Kenya

  Interview with Mick Grant, John Molvar, www.youthrunner.com. January 12, 2011.

• 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

  Running, Speed, Young

  Interview with Mick Grant, John Molvar, www.youthrunner.com. January 12, 2011.

• 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

  Running, Moving, Winning

  Interview with Mick Grant, John Molvar, www.youthrunner.com. January 12, 2011.

• I never did cross training or lifted weights or put anything between myself and my passion for running.

  Gerry Lindgren

  Running, Passion, Training

  Interview with Mick Grant, John Molvar, www.youthrunner.com. January 12, 2011.

• 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

  Running, Distance, Race

  Interview with Mick Grant, John Molvar, www.youthrunner.com. January 12, 2011.

• 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

  Running, Passion, Down And

  Interview with Mick Grant, John Molvar, www.youthrunner.com. January 12, 2011.

• 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

  Running, Race, Anxiety

  Interview with Mick Grant, John Molvar, www.youthrunner.com. January 12, 2011.

• I should be doing that too. I should be out there running and racing. I should be taking care of my body.

  Gerry Lindgren

  Running, Racing, Body

• 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

  Running, Believe, Thinking

  Interview with Mick Grant, John Molvar, www.youthrunner.com. January 12, 2011.

• 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

  Basketball, Sports, Baseball

  Interview with Mick Grant, John Molvar, www.youthrunner.com. January 12, 2011.

• 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

  Running, Kids, Train Hard

  Interview with Mick Grant, John Molvar, www.youthrunner.com. January 12, 2011.

• News people were holding me up as a symbol of defiance to the boycott and I couldn't even run.

  Gerry Lindgren

  Running, People, News

  Interview with Mick Grant, John Molvar, www.youthrunner.com. January 12, 2011.

• 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

  Running, School, Work Out

  Interview with Mick Grant, John Molvar, www.youthrunner.com. January 12, 2011.

• 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

  Girl, Running, Team

  Interview with Mick Grant, John Molvar, www.youthrunner.com. January 12, 2011.

• 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

  Crush, Sports, Running

  Interview with Mick Grant, John Molvar, www.youthrunner.com. January 12, 2011.

• 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

  Running, Team, Opportunity

  Interview with Mick Grant, John Molvar, www.youthrunner.com. January 12, 2011.

• 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

  Running, Hurt, Attitude

  Interview with Mick Grant, John Molvar, www.youthrunner.com. January 12, 2011.

• If you KNOW dehydration is a problem in long runs it becomes a problem in long runs.

  Gerry Lindgren

  Running, Long, Dehydration

  Interview with Mick Grant & John Molvar, www.youthrunner.com. December 01, 2011.

• 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

  Running, Passion, Track

  Interview with Mick Grant, John Molvar, www.youthrunner.com. January 12, 2011.

• Set a master goal for your running and for your life...

  Gerry Lindgren

  Running, Goal, Masters

  Interview with Mick Grant, John Molvar, www.youthrunner.com. January 12, 2011.

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