Sprint Quotes

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

  Amby Burfoot

  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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• Success is actually a short race-a sprint fueled by discipline just long enough for habit to kick in and take over.

  Gary W. Keller

  Motivation, Race, Discipline

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• The sprint is like life ... blink and you miss it.

  Steve Backley

  Missing, Blink

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• Writing is a marathon, not a sprint.

  Robert McKee

  Writing, Marathon

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• Life’s a marathon, not a sprint.

  Phil McGraw

  Marathon

  Dr. Phil McGraw (2013). “Life Code: New Rules for the Real World”, p.117, Bird Street Books

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• Successful innovation is not a single breakthrough. It is not a sprint. It is not an event for the solo runner. Successful innovation is a team sport, it's a relay race.

  Nguyen Quyen

  Sports, Motivation, Team

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• I want to be the king of sprints because I think I am.

  Asafa Powell

  Kings, Thinking, Want

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• The race of life is a marathon, not a sprint.

  Tony Robbins

  Inspirational, Race, Marathon

  Tony Robbins (2014). “MONEY Master the Game: 7 Simple Steps to Financial Freedom”, p.235, Simon and Schuster

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• Lies run sprints, but the truth runs marathons.

  Michael Jackson

  Running, Truth, Lying

  "Michael Jackson Calls Child Molestation Charges 'Lies'". JET Magazine, December 8, 2003.

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• Character produces endurance and persistence when the going gets tough, and life truly is an endurance race, not a sprint.

  Zig Ziglar

  Character, Persistence, Race

  FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Sep 29, 2014

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• You can run a sprint or your can run a marathon, but you can't sprint a marathon.

  Ryan Holmes

  Running, Marathon

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• Blocking out is everyday, every drill, all the time. We run sprints every time someone does not blockout.

  Rick Majerus

  Basketball, Running, Block

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• Hurdlers are sprinters with a problem. They're not satisfied just to sprint. Anybody can sprint, some not as well as others of course, but anybody can sprint. Not everybody can run hurdles. There's an extra dimension involved. Hurdlers would make a good subject for a thesis in psychology - they are of apersuasion that just needs an extra dimension.

  Denny Moyer

  Motivational, Running, Track

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• Business is a marathon, and most of society thinks it's a sprint.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Thinking, Marathon

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• Life is not a sprint. It was never meant to be. It is just a step of faith after another.

  Richard Paul Evans

  Steps, Life Is, Meant To Be

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• Hill sprints are good for everyone!

  Kara Goucher

  Hills

  FaceBook post by Kara Goucher from Jan 06, 2013

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• Business is a sprint until you find an opportunity, then it's the patience of a marathon runner.

  Robert Herjavec

  Opportunity, Marathon, Runners

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• Nobody Beats Us! served as our main trigger... We practiced using trigger words, private verbal keys, which unlocked certain thoughts for us. We had a half-dozen phrases-some dealt with maintaining our technique, two dealt with maintaining our technique, two dealt with our stroke rating. The most powerful phrase was 'Nobody Beats Us!' According to our plan, when I said these words to Paul toward the end of the race, we would immediately shift into our final sprint, rowing as high and hard as possible, straight through, until we crossed the finish line.

  Brad Alan Lewis

  Powerful, Keys, Race

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• I was running track early in my years and I was breaking track records in sprint running. I was training and I wanted to be in the Olympics. I thought I was going to be able to win a gold medal, and my mind was pretty much set on 'this is what I want to do'.

  Sheila E.

  Running, Winning, Years

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• I got that nickname my first spring training camp with the Expos in 1974. Tim Foli, Ken Singleton and Mike Jorgensen started calling me 'Kid' because I was trying to win every sprint. I was trying to hit every pitch out of the park.

  Gary Carter

  Spring, Kids, Winning

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• Financial winners don't run sprints, they run marathons. They don't rush. They do it step by step over time.

  Dave Ramsey

  Running, Steps, Marathon

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• Still, I also know that most people, including me, tend to applaud the wrong things: the showy, dramatic record-setting sprint rather than the years of dogged preparation or the unwavering grace displayed during a string of losses. Applause, then, never bore much relation to the reality of my life as an astronaut, which was not all about, or even mostly about, flying around in space.

  Chris Hadfield

  Loss, Reality, Years

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• What's true for us as individual humans is true for the civilization we create:
  a sprint culture, seeking ever greater speed and power in all things cannot endure.

  Ed Ayres

  Civilization, Culture, Speed

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• SEO is a race, not a sprint.

  Neil Patel

  Race, Entrepreneur, Seo

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• 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.

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