Marty Liquori quotes

“Overtraining is the biggest problem incurred by runners who lack the experience or discipline to cope with their own enthusiasm.”
-- Marty Liquori

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“Run your own race at an even pace. Consider the course, the temperature, the weather, and most importantly, your current level of fitness.”
-- Marty Liquori

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“There's no satisfaction without a struggle first.”
-- Marty Liquori

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“Road racing is rock 'n roll; track is Carnegie Hall.”
-- Marty Liquori

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“You've got to be a little bored to be doing really good training.”
-- Marty Liquori

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“The endurance athlete is the ultimate realist.”
-- Marty Liquori

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“There are no secrets to running success,anyone who says there are is probably trying to sell you something.”
-- Marty Liquori

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“During long, slow distance training, you should think of yourself as a thoroughbred disguised as a plow horse. No need to give yourself away by running fast.”
-- Marty Liquori

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“Happy people don't run a 3:47 mile.”
-- Marty Liquori

Source : "Mexico wins at World Cup! Does that mean the 'no sex' thing is working?" by Brian Alexander, www.today.com. October 14, 2016.

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“The discipline of colleges and universities is in general contrived, not for the benefit of the students, but for the interest, or more properly speaking, for the ease of the masters. Its object is, in all cases, to maintain the authority of the master, and whether he neglects or performs his duty, to oblige the students in all cases to behave toward him as if he performed it with the greatest diligence and ability.”

“For dash and gallantry the bloodthirsty Scots, Australians and Canadians led the way, with the impetuous Irish close behind. The Australian to my mind were the most aggressive, and managed to keep their form in spite of their questionable discipline. Out of the line they were undoubtedly difficult to handle, but once in it they loved a fight. They were a curious mixture of toughness and sentimentality...”

“It has been said that the great scientific disciplines are examples of giants standing on the shoulders of other giants. It has also been said that the software industry is an example of midgets standing on the toes of other midgets.”

“A man provided with paper, pencil, and rubber, and subject to strict discipline, is in effect a universal machine.”

Source : "Intelligent Machinery: A Report by A. M. Turing". Submitted to the National Physical Laboratory in 1948. "Key Papers: Cybernetics". Book edited by C. R. Evans and A. D. J. Robertson, 1968.

“Enthusiasm just creates bubbles; it doesn't keep them from popping.”

“It cannot take decades to resurrect, we must act immediately with purpose and enthusiasm to rebuild.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

“The one thing that fills me with enthusiasm is to try, despite everything, to get nearer to those visions that seem so hard to express.”

Source : Paul Cézanne, Alberto Giacometti, Felix Andreas Baumann, Poul Erik Tøjner, Tobia Bezzola (2008). “Cézanne & Giacometti: paths of doubt”, Hatje Cantz Pub

“No farmer-sportsman group is stronger than the ties of mutual confidence and enthusiasm which bind its members.”

“A lot of bands have the enthusiasm kicked out of them by playing really dreary pub venues that just churn bands through.”

“As always, the British especially shudder at the latest American vulgarity, and then they embrace it with enthusiasm two years later”