Jim Fixx quotes
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“Set aside a time solely for running. Running is more fun if you don't have to rush through it.”
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“Play not only keeps us young but also maintains our perspective about the relative seriousness of things. Running is play, for even if we try hard to do well at it, it is a relief from everyday cares.”
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“Is beer good for runners? Sure...if it's the other guy drinking it.”
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“It is not something I must do but something I want to do....”
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“When you realise that you possess within your self everything you need to promote your own success, the feeling is one of empowerment.”
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“Much of my good fortune was a matter of nothing more clever on my part than luck.”
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“Pain is nature's way of telling you to slow down. Death is nature's way of telling you to stop.”
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“The qualities and capacities that are important in running-such factors as will power, the ability to apply effort during extreme fatigue and the acceptance of pain-have a radiating power that subtly influences one's life.”
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“[Eventually the] hoopla will die down [and people will] run the same way we brush our teeth-every day, without a fuss.”
-- Jim Fixx
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Source : "Young Love, Complicated by Cancer" by A.O. Scott, www.nytimes.com. June 05, 2014.
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“Remember that sports are meant to be fun. Don't let someone make the sport unfun for you.”
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Source : A. J. Liebling (2004). “Mollie and Other War Pieces”, p.121, U of Nebraska Press
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Source : "Salman is number one: Aamir Khan". www.hindustantimes.com. September 11, 2011.
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Source : "Cartographer of Word Galaxies". The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. September 24, 2013.
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