Paul Tergat quotes
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“Ask yourself: 'Can I give more?'. The answer is usually: 'Yes'.”
-- Paul TergatSource : "Coeurs d'athlètes". Sport/Documentary, 2003.
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“My upbringing gave me a strong will, a mental aggressiveness in what I wanted to achieve.”
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“I thought the race could be won in the last kilometers in the park. Every hill I ran in training I ran to gain an extra step in the park.”
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“It's probably the toughest distance race in the world to win. World class runners from 1500m to the marathon contest it and instead of just three runners from each country, like in the Olympics or World Championships, in the senior men's race there are nine.”
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“I feel it was just a few years ago I was running around in short pants”
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“The day we run out of petrol is the day Iran will be free.”
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Source : A. B. Simpson (1984). “Days of Heaven on Earth: A Daily Devotional to Comfort and Inspire”, Moody Publishers
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“The principle of Sturgeon's Razor states that the simplest answer to any problem is 90% crap”
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