Ron Clarke quotes

Ron Clarke quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“The hardest step for a runner to take is the first one out the door.”
-- Ron Clarke

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“In my case, I thoroughly enjoy running 100-odd miles a week. If I didn't I wouldn't do it. Who can define happiness? To some, happiness is a warm puppy or a glass of cold beer. To me, happiness is running in the hills with my mates around me.”
-- Ron Clarke

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“Love testing yourself more than fearing loosing”
-- Ron Clarke

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“There is not, and never was, a greater man than Emil Zatopek.”
-- Ron Clarke

Source : Ron Clarke, Norman Harris (1967). “The Lonely Breed”

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“It makes me sick to see a superior runner wait behind the field until 200 meters to go and then sprint away. That is immoral. It's both an insult to the other runners and a denigration of his own ability.”
-- Ron Clarke

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“No one knows the fear in a front runner's mind more than me. When you set off at a cracking pace for four or five laps and find that your main rivals are still breathing down your neck, that's when you start to panic.”
-- Ron Clarke

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“I got tired of seeing otherwise innocent young kids from all walks of life getting criminal records for, in effect, doing nothing more than millions of other people in society were doing with alcohol.”
-- Ron Clarke

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“Worry about him? I never even heard of him.”
-- Ron Clarke

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“Making money is not gonna change anything about what I am, except I won't answer the door.”

Source : "Abel Ferrara: 'I made Scarface look like Mary Poppins'" by Andrew Purcell, www.theguardian.com. August 5, 2010.
“Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.”
“Everything seems overwhelming when you stand back and look at the totality of it. I build a lot of stuff and it would all seem impossible if I didn't break it down piece by piece, stage by stage. The best gift you can give yourself is some drive--that thing inside of you that gets you out the door to the gym, job interviews, and dates. The believe-in-yourself adage is grossly overrated.”
“Death is a door life opens.”

Source : Adela Rogers St. Johns (1979). “Love, Laughter and Tears: My Hollywood Story”
“It's a fact of earthly life that when God opens the windows of heaven to bless us, the devil opens the doors of hell to blast us. When God begins moving, the devil fires up all his artillery.”
“The doors of opportunity swing on the hinges of opposition!”
“I still get very scared when I step in front of a live audience.”
“Once you discover that you can, then you must. And it's not easy. You have to take direct steps. You really have to count your blessings and you have to make a decided effort to not get seduced by the blues.”
“There's some task which the God of all the universe, the great Creator, your redeemer in Jesus Christ has for you to do, and which will remain undone and incomplete until by faith and obedience you step into the will of God.”
“You want to be like a ticking bomb. As calm as possible before the fight, to save energyâ€¦ But ready to explode the second you step into the cage.”

Source : "Exclusive Interview: Alexander ‘The Mauler’ Gustafsson – What Karate Can Learn from MMA". Interview with Jesse Enkamp, www.karatebyjesse.com.

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