Alfred Shrubb quotes
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“Training can get on a man's nerves. There is no profit or use in denying it.”
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“The less serious running of any description which an athlete indulges in before eighteen, the better for his future prospects.”
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“Of all athletic forms, running is perhaps the most taxing and the most exciting; that is, when carried to the extreme.”
-- Alfred Shrubb
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“Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose, But young men think it is, and we were young.”
Source : More Poems (1936) no. 36
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Source : "Paroles d'un sage: Choix de pensées d'African Spir" ("Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir") by Hélène Claparède-Spir, (p. 59), 1937.
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