Sprinters Quotes - Page 2

• I realized that I was more of a sprinter than a marathon man. With a long, long project, I get bored easily.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Men, Long, Bored

  Source: collider.com

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• For some of us love comes into the room, kicks her shoes off, finds the most comfortable sofa, and lies down, rests, has no intention of going anywhere. For others love walks in smoking a cigarette, checking her watch every two seconds, jittery, with one hand on the doorknob, heart rate up, always in sprinter’s position, ready to run.

  Eric Jerome Dickey

  Running, Lying, Heart

  Eric Jerome Dickey (2006). “Genevieve”, p.94, Penguin

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• Double gold means I'm king of the sprints. It shows I'm the best sprinter around.

  Justin Gatlin

  Kings, Mean, Gold

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• When I was young, I was too slow. I thought I must learn to run fast by practicing to run fast, so I ran 100 meters fast 20 times. Then I came back, slow,slow,slow. People said, 'Emil, you are crazy. You are training like a sprinter.'

  Emil Zatopek

  Running, Crazy, People

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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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• As a kid, I was a pretty good little sprinter.

  Mary Lou Retton

  Kids, Littles

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• Im Jamaican, man. Im Jamaican first. You gotta understand thats where Im from. Thats home. That you can never take away from me. Im a Jamaican-born Canadian sprinter.

  Donovan Bailey

  Home, Men, Firsts

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• Carl Lewis wasn't a great sprinter. He could only run fast for like 9 seconds.

  Serge Ibaka

  Running, Seconds

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• A short story is a sprint, a novel is a marathon. Sprinters have seconds to get from here to there and then they are finished. Marathoners have to carefully pace themselves so that they don't run out of energy (or in the case of the novelist-- ideas) because they have so far to run. To mix the metaphor, writing a short story is like having a short intense affair, whereas writing a novel is like a long rich marriage.

  Jonathan Carroll

  Running, Writing, Ideas

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• What I loved about bike racing was that it was not a mainstream sport. My heroes were self-made. There were no coaches, no training centers, and only a handful of sponsors. Training rides were not totally devoted to bike talk. I got to know a lot of riders this way, not just as good sprinters or good climbers, but as people who had ideas different from mine, jobs different from mine, and dreams different from mine.

  Steve Tesich

  Sports, Dream, Jobs

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• Humans are built for endurance, not speed. We're awful sprinters compared to every other animal. We try to run our races as if they were speed races, but they are not. They're endurance races. Even a marathon, the way it's run now, it's not an endurance contest.

  Christopher McDougall

  Running, Animal, Race

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• It's always been too slow for me. Playing. The pace of things. I'm a fast sprinter. The trouble was, after playing in the group for a few months, I couldn't reach that point.

  Syd Barrett

  Groups, Pace, Months

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

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• I think animation is like running a marathon, and making a movie is like a 100 meter sprint. The question is: are you a marathon man or are you a sprinter? I realized that I was more of a sprinter than a marathon man. With a long, long project, I get bored easily.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Running, Men, Thinking

  Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. August 9, 2012.

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