Runners Quotes - Page 9

• It so happens that the major relationships in the novel [The Kite Runner] are between men, dictated not by any sort of prejudice or discomfort with female characters, but rather by the demands of the narrative.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Character, Men, Female

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• To be a runner is to learn continual life lessons. To be a coach is not just to teach these lessons but also to feel them in the core of your marrow. The very act of surpassing personal limits in training and racing will bend the mind and body toward a higher purpose for the rest of my runners' lives. Settling for mediocrity-settling instead of pushing-those who learn to be the best version of themselves know the secret to a full life.

  Martin Dugard

  Life Lesson, Training, Mind

  Martin Dugard (2011). “To Be a Runner: How Racing Up Mountains, Running with the Bulls, or Just Taking On a 5-K Makes You a Better Person (and the World a Better Place)”, p.15, Rodale

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• It sucks to be the runner-up because I've been the runner-up for a long time in my career. I would get so close and then lose a huge movie and sometimes it's one kid who beats you out for three different movies. It's so frustrating at the time, but what's so great is the lesson you take from that, which is, 'I've got to get better.'

  Jason Dohring

  Kids, Careers, Long

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• Every day of the year where the water is 76, day and night, and the waves roll high, I take my sled, without runners, and coast down the face of the big waves that roll in at Waikiki.

  Duke Kahanamoku

  Night, Years, Water

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• So for front-runners we have a black and a woman. It's like being made to choose between syphilis or having and old man crap on your face. I would do the country a favor and run myself but I couldn't deprive Hollywood of me for 4 years.

  Zach Braff

  Running, Country, Men

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• I used to be pretty reckless. When I was a runner for a production company, I drove a massive 16 seater van. I was only 18. I mean I look young now, but then I looked about 12.

  Gail Porter

  Mean, Looks, Reckless

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• I watch 2001: A Space Odyssey every time it’s on. I made the kids watch it every time, too, and now they just love watching it. Stanley Kubrick’s great. And Blade Runner is one of my top three science fiction films. A lot of it has come true.

  Bruce Willis

  Kids, Space, Blade Runner

  "Bruce Willis: Maybe he really is a sci-fi guy". Interview with Peter Howell, www.thestar.com. September 27, 2012.

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• While great leaders may be as rare as great runners, great actors, or great painters, everyone has leadership potential, just as everyone has some ability at running, acting, and painting.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Running, Leader, Acting

  Warren G. Bennis, Burt Nanus (2003). “Leaders: the strategies for taking charge”

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• 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.

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• In those long, lonely miles you put in during the off-season, and in those knife-in-the-gut repetitions and hill repeats that buckly your knees - at that moment in almost every race when you ask yourself how much you're willing to hurt to catch one more runner - you can draw strength and inspiration from your running mates.

  Don Kardong

  Running, Lonely, Hurt

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• The 3-minute mile goal is to teach runners that the impossible is where goals should be set.

  Gerry Lindgren

  Goal, Impossible, Should

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

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• 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.

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• With Rodham, for instance, it has to work on an emotional level. It has to work on a character level. If it's only "Look, it has famous people," then it's a wax museum come to life and that's really boring. It's sort of like what they say about science fiction and horror where the really good ones, if you remove that element of it, it still has to work. That's the reason The Shining works or Rosemary's Baby or Blade Runner.

  James Ponsoldt

  Baby, Character, Emotional

  Source: collider.com

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• When you hit a certain spot you Sprint no matter how you feel inside or what your co-runner thinks. You just go! In training as a nickel, you sprint because you need to sprint! You just do it! In racing people see it and call it courage, but it is attitude; determination; duty.

  Gerry Lindgren

  Determination, Attitude, Thinking

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

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• Blade Runner's just a noir at the end of the day. Rosemary's Baby is about the fear of having a child and how that gets in the way of a romantic relationship. Or whatever it is, and you add that extra element that blows your mind apart.

  James Ponsoldt

  Baby, Children, Blow

  Source: collider.com

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• You have an advantage if you win. I always think it's best to be remembered as a winner rather than as the runner-up. It's definitely more fun getting the gold than it is the silver.

  Simon Cowell

  Fun, Winning, Thinking

  Interview with Jerry Nunn, chicago.gopride.com. December 19, 2013.

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• For me, The Kite Runner became about a guy who’s emotionally shut down because he hasn’t confronted his past.

  Marc Forster

  Past, Guy, Kites

  "An Interview With “The Kite Runner” Director Marc Forster". Interview with Jacob Bernstein, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 28, 2008.

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• Is it not true that the clever rogue is like the runner who runs well for the first half of the course, but flags before reaching the goal: he is quick off the mark, but ends in disgrace and slinks away crestfallen and uncrowned. The crown is the prize of the really good runner who perseveres to the end.

  Plato

  Encouraging, Running, Perseverance

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• I am very amazed by the runners out there because I like jog to the garbage can outside sometimes, and I get tired.

  Kacy Catanzaro

  Tired, Garbage Cans, Sometimes

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• In the race of faith, stay focused upon Christ, not the other runners, nor the spectators.

  Steven J Lawson

  Race, Stay Focused, Christ

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• It makes me sick to see a superior runner wait behind the field until 200 meters to go and then sprint away. That is immoral. It's both an insult to the other runners and a denigration of his own ability.

  Ron Clarke

  Sick, Waiting, Fields

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• I don't know if there's a proper way to define toughness in a runner, but I do know that there comes a sudden moment when the mindset shifts. The impossible becomes doable, or at least attemptable. The long run goes from two miles to four to ten to fifteen, until it becomes routine at some point deep in an intense training cycle to knock off a couple hours without giving it a thought.

  Martin Dugard

  Running, Couple, Two

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• You can't be a 20-mile a day eater if you're just a 5-mile a day runner.

  Bruce Robinson

  Miles, Ifs

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• I've always been fortunate in that I'm quite good at what I do, but there have been many people who have made it to the high level and they weren't necessarily the fastest runner in their class at school. Concentrate on yourself. It's down to planning, preparation and being dedicated.

  Jenny Meadows

  School, Class, People

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• One of the most painful things for me was Jay Leno, Jay Leno going back on the air and saying to people that it was a choice between his writing staff and his crew, I think that really hurt a lot of show runners, because it was never a choice between our writers and our crew.

  Edward Allen Bernero

  Hurt, Writing, Thinking

  Source: deadline.com

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