Pekka Vasala quotes

Pekka Vasala quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“It is suicidal for other runners to copy my hill sessions without adequate background.”
-- Pekka Vasala

#Running Quotes #Suicidal Quotes #Adequate Quotes

“Rogue Squadron doesn't run. Unless we really, really have to.”
“When the guy says go, you start to suffer - or you might as well not be out there. It's a small piece of your life, make it hurt.”
“The day we run out of petrol is the day Iran will be free.”
“If I commit suicide, it will not be to destroy myself, but to put myself back together again. Suicide will be for me only one means of violently reconquering myself, of brutally invading my being, of anticipating the unpredictable approaches of God. By suicide, I reintroduce my design in nature, I shall for the first time give things the shape of my will.”
“In America, for a brief time, people who followed John Coltrane were studied and considered important, but it didn't last long. The result is that the kind of music I played in the '60's is completely dismissed in this country as a wrong turn, a suicidal effort.”
“I'm not glorifying it at all, I'm just basically telling you that sometimes I have suicidal thoughts. And maybe I should seek help, or maybe it's not that deep.”
“For the more limited, if adequate, is always preferable.”
“I didn't know exactly what I wanted to do in school, but I definitely didn't have adequate time to reach my full potential as a student.”
“I should never have made a good scientist, but I should have made a perfectly adequate one.”
“Ensuring Americans have access to adequate medical care should be a priority for all of us.”

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