Sprinters Quotes

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  Worrying gets you nowhere. If you turn up worrying about how you're going to perform, you've already lost. Train hard, turn up, run your best and the rest will take care of itself.

  Usain Bolt

  Success, Running, Perseverance

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• How you start is important, but it is how you finish that counts. In the race for success, speed is less important than stamina. The sticker outlasts the sprinter.

  B. C. Forbes

  Persistence, Race, Important

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• To a sprinter, the hundred-yard dash is over in three seconds, not nine or ten. The first 'second' is when you come out of the blocks. The next is when you look up and take your first few strides to attain gain position. By that time the race is actually about half over. The final 'second' - the longest slice of time in the world for an athlete - is that last half of the race, when you really bear down and see what you're made of. It seems to take an eternity, yet is all over before you can think what's happening.

  Jesse Owens

  Sports, Block, Athlete

  Jesse Owens, Paul G. Neimark (1972). “I Have Changed”

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• Life is often compared to a marathon, but I think it is more like being a sprinter; long stretches of hard work punctuated by brief moments in which we are given the opportunity to perform at our best.

  Michael Johnson

  Life, Motivational, Sports

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• Twenty seconds before a race, there's absolute focus. The key thing is to achieve relaxation, but at the same to have absolute total control. You've got to find the balance between being totally ready to go and being really at peace with yourself as well.

  Cathy Freeman

  Sports, Running, Peace

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• You learn to run like a sprinter, you'll be a great distance runner

  Alberto Salazar

  Running, Distance, Runners

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• I am a sprinter, and I love to go fast. It's very difficult for me to be patient and follow a race strategy or conserve energy.

  Allyson Felix

  Race, Energy, Patient

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• To a sprinter, the hundred-yard dash is over in three seconds, not nine or ten.

  Jesse Owens

  Nine, Yards, Three

  Jesse Owens, Paul G. Neimark (1972). “I Have Changed”

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• How you start is important, very important, but in the end it is how you finish that counts. It is easier to be a self-starter than a self-finisher. The victor in the race is not the one who dashes off swiftest but the one who leads at the finish. In the race for success, speed is less important than stamina. The sticker outlasts the sprinter in life's race. In America we breed many hares but not so many tortoises.

  B. C. Forbes

  Perseverance, Self, America

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• I always wanted to be a sprinter.

  Michael Johnson

  Wanted

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• In swimming at my level it's about control of the small movements. A good ballet dancer floats across the stage, the best sprinters virtually abolish gravity. All motion occurs in the right direction.

  Alexander Dale Oen

  Swimming, Dancer, Ballet

  "With Alexander Dale Oen's sudden death, Norway lost a hero" by Andy Bull, www.theguardian.com. June 2, 2012.

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• You need to become more than one type of athlete. You have to be a sprinter, a weight man and a distance guy all in one.

  Dan O'Brien

  Distance, Athlete, Men

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• Before me, sprinters retired at 23 or 24. I run because I still like it, I can make a living, and I feel I was born to do it. And because people tell me I can't do it.

  Evelyn Ashford

  Running, People, Born

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• I'm fascinated by the sprinters. They suffer so much during the race just to get to the finish, they hang on for dear life in the climbs, but then in the final kilometers they are transformed and do amazing things. It's not their force per se that impresses me, but rather the renaissance they experience. Seeing them suffer throughout the race only to be reborn in the final is something for fascination.

  Miguel Indurain

  Race, Cycling, Suffering

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• I have to keep going, as there are always people on my track. I have to publish my present work as rapidly as possible in order to keep in the race. The best sprinters in this road of investigation are Becquerel and the Curies.

  Ernest Rutherford

  Science, Race, Order

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• Divas do it, golfers do it, pilots do it, violists do it, sprinters do it, soldiers do it, surgeons do it, astronauts do it...only business people think it isn't necessary to train.

  Tom Peters

  Teamwork, Thinking, People

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• I don't have a sprinter's body.

  Allyson Felix

  Body

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• We crave instant success these days. If you are a really good sprinter and long jumper, you don't want to spend two or three years on a whole new set of events. You're used to doing well and it's difficult to give that up.

  Daley Thompson

  Years, Two, Long

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• You find sprinters testing other sprinters' mental capability. But these are my good friends on the track. I don't think we need to do that.

  Donovan Bailey

  Good Friend, Thinking, Track

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• Love affairs are for emotional sprinters; the pleasures of love are for the emotional marathoners.

  Robertson Davies

  Emotional, Affair, Pleasure

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• I'm a decent sprinter and I can gun a motorcycle from zero to suicidal in less than ten seconds.

  Mira Grant

  Zero, Suicidal, Gun

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• I am a bit different from the other sprinters because, I would say, I can run many different ways while the other guys they just came on and they can only run one way.

  Asafa Powell

  Running, Guy, Different

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• I've always been quite an active person especially when I was younger. When I was in primary school, I used to play lots of sports. I was a sprinter and I did basketball and swimming and Gaelic football and things like that. So I always thought, I guess, that it would be fun to incorporate that much physical activity and work into a dramatic piece.

  Saoirse Ronan

  Basketball, Sports, Football

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• I am basically turning football players into sprinters for a while. When we first talked about it, I didn't know how my expertise could be used.

  Ato Boldon

  Football, Player, Firsts

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• As a little kid, not only is my dad Jo-Jo White, but M. L. Carr is involved in the family, Red Auerbach is my godfather, and my stepmother was an Olympic-caliber sprinter. Athletes were all around. I happened to be a natural athlete. If I wasn't, it might have been hell. But I never got any pressure from my mom and dad to be an athlete.

  Brian J. White

  Mom, Dad, Kids

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