Ken Doherty quotes

“The five S's of sports training are: stamina, speed, strength, skill, and spirit; but the greatest of these is spirit.”
-- Ken Doherty

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“A runners creed: I will win; if I cannot win, I shall be second; if I cannot be second, I shall be third; if I cannot place at all, I shall still do my best.”
-- Ken Doherty

Source : Ken Doherty (1964). “Modern training for running”, Prentice Hall

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“A coach can be like oasis in the desert of a runner's lost enthusiasm.”
-- Ken Doherty

Source : Ken Doherty (1964). “Modern training for running”, Prentice Hall

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“I still have the same hunger like I did 20 years ago but it's a different sort of reflection when you lose. It doesn't hurt you as much because I feel like I've had a good career.”
-- Ken Doherty

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“Develop your own compass, and trust it. Take risks, dare to fail, remember the first person through the wall always gets hurt.”

Source : Aaron Sorkin's Commencement Address at Syracuse University in Syracuse, New York, news.syr.edu. May 13, 2012.

“Books are totally useless unless you take their advice. If you just keep reading them, thinking "that's so insightful! that changes everything," but never actually doing anything different, then pretty quickly the feeling will wear off and you'll start searching for another book to fill the void.”

“The gods have fled, I know. My sense is the gods have always been essentially absent. I do not believe human beings have played games or sports from the beginning merely to summon or to please or to appease the gods. If anthropologists and historians believe that, it is because they believe whatever they have been able to recover about what humankind told the gods humankind was doing. I believe we have played games, and watched games, to imitate the gods, to become godlike in our worship of eachother and, through those moments of transmutation, to know for an instant what the gods know.”

“Basketball is my favorite sport, and I'm also a very passionate football fan.”

“If you trust, you will be disappointed occasionally, but if you mistrust, you will be miserable all the time.”

“Boxing is an all year round sport. You never know when they're going to call you, so you got to stay ready.”

“The resistance that you fight physically in the gym and the resistance that you fight in life can only build a strong character.”

“Sometimes the most urgent and vital thing you can possibly do is take a complete rest.”

“It's hard to beat a person that never gives up.”

“If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.”