Matt Long quotes

“What did I discover during my solo—besides learning to unwrap my energy bar ahead of time? That you ask yourself a lot of questions when you're alone on a bike for that long. One question more than others: Why the heck am I doing this? When I was done, I think I had found the answer: For the satisfaction that comes with pushing your body to the breaking point and conquering the unknown.”
-- Matt Long

Source : Matt Long, Charlie Butler (2010). “The Long Run: A New York City Firefighter's Triumphant Comeback from Crash Victim to Elite Athlete”, p.179, Rodale

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“I would hate to be 65 and think, 'What if I had tried to be an actor?”
-- Matt Long

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“I wasnt athletic. I played baseball, but I was terrible.”
-- Matt Long

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“I see myself being married to my girlfriend and backpacking all over the world. If I can go out and do a 15-mile hike and climb a 12,000-ft. peak, I'm good to go.”
-- Matt Long

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“There was a time I thought about being a professional guide. I'm a big outdoorsman, but the acting thing has always been there - always something I wanted to do.”
-- Matt Long

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

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“Americans think the only funny Brits are John Cleese, Benny Hill and whoever makes our toothpaste. They're not laughing with us, they are laughing at us.”

“Think it over, think it under.”

“Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head, behind Christopher Robin. It is, as far as he knows, the only way of coming downstairs, but sometimes he feels that there really is another way, if only he could stop bumping for a moment and think of it. And then he feels that perhaps there isn't.”

“My goal has been to encourage jointness, to push people to think of affiliations rather than to operate as solo entrepreneurs.”

“Growing terrorism, permissive societies, democracy collapsing through lack of law and order. If things continue on their present track, the disintegration of Western societies will occur much sooner than you think under the hammer blows of fascism and communism. Freedom is not something that does not have a breaking point, and your enemies would like you to reach that point.”

Source : "Keeping Faith: Memoirs of a President". Book by Jimmy Carter, p. 444, 1995.

“As long as you want anything very much, especially more than you want God, it is an idol.”

Source : A. B. Simpson (1984). “Days of Heaven on Earth: A Daily Devotional to Comfort and Inspire”, Moody Publishers

“Krishnamacharya's personal practice was always with long deep breathing and mental focus. Observe the position of his head, the lower abdomen and his mental focus. He was always concentrated on the inner alignment through breath.”

“A human lifespan is less than a thousand months long. You need to make some time to think how to live it.”

Source : "This much I know". Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. July 4, 2009.

“Autumn can be glorious but menacing too - the long shadows, brisk winds, scurrying leaves, impending frost.”

Source : A. S. A. Harrison (2013). “The Silent Wife: A Novel”, p.96, Penguin

“It's hard to say what I want my legacy to be when I'm long gone.”