Ben Jipcho quotes

Ben Jipcho quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“Running for money doesn't make you run fast. It makes you run first.”
-- Ben Jipcho

#Sports Quotes #Running Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“Major sports are major parts of society. It's not anomalous to have people who love sports come from other parts of that society.”
“It's a special honor to be one of the leaders of this football team. But I said it once, I'll say it again, no one person wins a game by themselves. Individually, it's top of the mountain, my sport, my profession. It's what you dream about as a kid.”
“If you trust, you will be disappointed occasionally, but if you mistrust, you will be miserable all the time.”
“Every historian loves the past or should do. If not, he has mistaken his vocation; but it is a short step from loving the past to regretting that it has ever changed. Conservatism is our greatest trade-risk; and we run psychoanalysts close in the belief that the only "normal" people are those who cause no trouble either to themselves or anybody else.”

Source : "The Trouble Makers: Dissent over Foreign Policy, 1792-1939". Book by A. J. P. Taylor, "The Radical Tradition: Fox, Paine, and Cobbett", p. 14, 1957.
“The rain is plentious but, by God's decree, Only a third is meant for you and me; Two-thirds are taken by the growing things Or vanish Heavenward on vapour's wings: Nor does it mathematically fall With social equity on one and all. The population's habit is to grow In every region where the water's low: Nature is blamed for failings that are Man's, And well-run rivers have to change their plans.”
“I really hate it when I canâ€™t score runs from a ball.”
“This is not the first time in my life where you know going into a job that you're going to hear in stereo what was wrong with what you did.”
“Lenin was the first to discover that capitalism 'inevitably' caused war; and he discovered this only when the First World War was already being fought. Of course he was right. Since every great state was capitalist in 1914.”
“I read my first book on Woodrow Wilson at age 15, and I was hooked.”
“When I first started, I just wanted to work. I wouldn't necessarily do anything, but I'd pretty much almost do anything at the very beginning.”

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