Runners Quotes - Page 16

• Swimming is probably the ultimate of burnout sports. It's ironic because millions of people who swim as their regular exercise love the meditation aspect of it; you don't wind up with any orthopedic injuries. But when you swim at a world class level for hours and hours - the loneness of the long distance runner.

  Diana Nyad

  Sports, Distance, Exercise

  "Diana Nyad chats about her Cuba to Key West swim". Live Chat, live.washingtonpost.com. May 26, 2011.

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• I've never been a politician, but , I am totally committed to the Republican Party. I feel very honored to be the front runner.

  Donald Trump

  Party, Republican, Politician

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• I want to do my Blade Runner, which is like a future Berlin film, which is like a thriller, but it's much deeper characters, I think.

  Duncan Jones

  Character, Thinking, Blade Runner

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• I own records that have the power to make me cry. Records to be by or with - truly precious possessions. It is the ambition of the Midnight Runners to make records of this value.

  Kevin Rowland

  Ambition, Midnight, Precious Possessions

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• To be a champion long-distance runner you have to run on the edge of death.

  Toshihiko Seko

  Running, Distance, Long

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• It was being a runner that mattered, not how fast or how far I could run. The joy was in the act of running and in the journey, not in the destination. We have a better chance of seeing where we are when we stop trying to get somewhere else. We can enjoy every moment of movement, as long as where we are is as good as where we'd like to be. That's not to say that you need to be satisfied forever with where you are today. But you need to honor what you've accomplished, rather than thinking of what's left to be done (p. 159).

  John Bingham

  Running, Journey, Thinking

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• If this is what you do to the winner, I'd hate to see how you treat the runner up.

  Anthony Horowitz

  Hate, Winner, Treats

  "Alex Rider: Operation Stormbreaker". www.imdb.com. 2006.

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• During the First World War, I told her, Hitler had been a runner, delivering messages between the German trenches, and he was disgusted by seeing his fellow soldiers visit French brothels. To keep the Aryan bloodlines pure,and prevent the spread of venereal disease, he commissioned an inflatable doll that Nazi troops could take into battle. Hitler himself designed the dolls to have blond hair and large breasts. The Allied firebombing of Dresden destroyed the factory before the dolls could ever go into wide distribution.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  War, Hair, Soldier

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• Pardon all runners, All speechless, alien winds, All mad waters. Pardon their impulses, Their wild attitudes, Their young flights, their reticence. When a message has no clothes on How can it be spoken.

  Thomas Merton

  Attitude, Wind, Clothes

  Thomas Merton (1980). “The Collected Poems of Thomas Merton”, p.351, New Directions Publishing

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• When Heraclitus said that everything passes steadily along, he was not inciting us to make the best of the moment, an idea unseemly to his placid mind, but to pay attention to the pace of things. Each has its own rhythm: the nap of a dog, the procession of the equinoxes, the dances of Lydia, the majestically slow beat of the drums at Dodona, the swift runners at Olympia.

  Guy Davenport

  Dog, Naps, Ideas

  Guy Davenport (2013). “The Guy Davenport Reader”, p.224, Counterpoint

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• The human race is the most stupid and unfair kind of race. A lot of the runners don't even get decent sneakers or clean drinking water. Some runners are born with a massive head start, every possible help along the way and still the referees seem to be on their side. It's not surprising a lot of people have given up compeating altogether and gone to sit in the grandstand, eat junk and shout abuse. What the human race needs is a lot more streakers.

  Banksy

  Stupid, Drinking, Sneakers

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• I don't know a lot of show runners. I mean I met a lot of them in picket lines. I'm not part of a, like, secret society or pickup basketball game. As far as I'm concerned, pick-up basketball games are secret societies. They confuse me. I've never been a networker or I've never been very social.

  Joss Whedon

  Basketball, Mean, Games

  "Joss Whedon on Comic Books, Abusing Language and the Joys of Genre". Interview with Adam Rogers, www.wired.com. May 3, 2012.

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• Once we get into the groove, we're kind of like long-distance runners - that adrenalin kicks in for me and I just keep running - and I don't stop!

  Keith Urban

  Running, Distance, Long

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I was a runner and a soccer player living in Okinawa, Japan and I didn't have recruiters coming in to recruit me for sports. So how many kids out there and planning to go to college are super stud athletes but don't have a chance because they come from some podunk town and no one comes to watch them?

  Kristin Armstrong

  Soccer, Sports, Athlete

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• A slow band can be great. A slow 100-metres runner is just obsolete.

  Gylve Nagell

  Band, Obsolete

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• For the novice runner, I'd say to give yourself at least 2 months of consistently running several times a week at a conversational pace before deciding whether you want to stick with it. Consistency is the most important aspect of training at this point.

  Frank Shorter

  Sports, Running, Talking

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• Republicans woke up Sunday with an undeniable reality. Donald Trump's the clear front-runner now for their party's nomination. Trump, celebrated, of course, his big win in South Carolina.

  Chris Matthews

  Party, Sunday, Winning

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Musical theatre goes through cycles. I came in when it was at the absolute height of musical theatre as I remember it. It was the age of the long-runners.

  Ruthie Henshall

  Long, Musical, Age

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• I like the old-school Warner Bros. Looney Tunes cartoons. I'm talking Wile E. Coyote, Road Runner, Bugs Bunny and Marvin the Martian!

  Colin Kaepernick

  Old School, Talking, Cartoon

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• It's very difficult to have any faith in the sincerity of the SLORC about stamping out drug production if they find it so easy to forgive a drug baron whom at one time they said they would never, never forgive and would never, never regard as anything but a drug runner. The SLORC is far more aggressive in its attitude toward the National League for Democracy than against drug traffickers.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Attitude, League, Drug

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• I've always been a decent runner so I've never been massively unfit, but for this I've got stronger. I've got rid of a bit of podge and I'm just a bit leaner, which means that I'm just quicker at moving, I'm more agile and I recover much better as well. At the moment I feel ultra-fit and it's been an amazing change.

  Greg James

  Moving, Mean, Stronger

  "Greg James' Gregathlon for Sport Relief". Interview with Stephanie Soh, in.askmen.com.

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• Being in Birmingham, I thought I was going to be a gangster or a bag-runner or a thief. I heard music and I was determined to get out of there.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Thieves, Bags, Determined

  Interview with David Furnish, www.gq-magazine.co.uk. October 2004.

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• Campaign manager Eli Gold played by Alan Cumming on "The Good Wife" describing an old maxim in politics, don't commit to a decision before you have to. And that rule appears to have worked brilliantly for Democratic candidate front-runner Hillary Clinton, who has avoided taking a position on the president's trade agenda and has remained out of the ugly public spat with the progressive wing of her party. She has also not taken a position on the Iranian - on the talks.

  Chris Matthews

  Party, Taken, Wings

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• I am a runner. Last October, there was a marathon here in Beijing. I didn't participate this time, but friends told me that the run wasn't prepared too well. The organizers had only arranged about three hours' worth of food and water supplies. Most people don't finish within three hours, however. Too bad for them - or so it seemed. In fact, however, even those finishing last were perfectly taken care of, particularly during the fourth and fifth hour when demand is highest.

  Zhang Xin

  Running, Taken, Water

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I want to write a score for a film. It can be a proper film, maybe for a film kind of like... I saw that movie 'Drive', or a bit of a 'Blade Runner' vibe. A little bit sci-fi, but I don't know. I've just always wanted to write a score for a film.

  Flume

  Writing, Blade Runner, Want

  Source: www.coupdemainmagazine.com

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