Frank Shorter Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“Running with others can help get you out when you might otherwise blow it off.”
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“I admire runners older than I - they are now my heroes. I want to be like them as I grow older.”
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“You have to forget your last marathon before you try another. Your mind can't know what's coming.”
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“Experience has taught me how important it is to just keep going, focusing on running fast and relaxed. Eventually it passes and the flow returns. It's part of racing.”
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“Three half-mile repeats on the track at 5-K race pace with a short recovery jog in between shouldn't scare anyone away-and it will improve your speed.”
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“My goal has always been to slow down as slowly as possible. It's as simple as that.”
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“There's always the feeling of getting stronger. I think that's what keeps me going.”
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“You can actually suffer a little bit more going slowly than when you're going really fast. A faster marathon might even be easier than a slow one, in terms of what it takes out of you mentally.”
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“A good athlete always mentally replays a competition over and over, even in victory, to see what might be done to improve the performance the next time.”
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“You train best where you are the happiest.”
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“I want my time spent running to serve as a reward.”
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“The thing that makes [Bob] Kennedy so good is that he doesn't have a fear of losing. He was willing to go to Europe and get hammered.”
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“Be willing to move forward and find out what happens next.”
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“I plan to be running as long as I can and have no plans to stop.”
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“So, in a way I was hedging and saying that if the Olympic stuff doesn't work out at least I can be a lawyer.”
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“Because running fast is more fun than running slow.”
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“You don't run 26 miles at five minutes a mile on good looks and a secret recipe.”
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“When you first run up First Avenue in New York, if you don't get goose bumps, theres something wrong with you.”
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“My goal is to break three hours in a marathon”
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“How did I know you ran a 4:30 mile in high school? That's easy. Everyone ran a 4:30 mile in high school.”
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“Again, racing for me was about energy management.”
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“In other words we have marketed our way into this health crisis.”
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“As I've been able to once again gain the benefits of speed work, I'm enjoying my running more and more.”
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“Being in school is the best place to be if you are an athlete because you can structure your own time.”
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“Intervals and other types of speed work are essential to improve running speed.”
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“When you are caring about your children perhaps you always have to remember at what point you can become over involved because of something you need rather than something the child needs.”
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“I was actually going to law school in 1972.”
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“Right now, after having had back surgery, I am finally back to running again.”
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“There's obviously some validity to it. But I think it also points out that you obviously can do it on your own because people have been doing it long before they had the stuff.”
-- Frank Shorter
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