"Having your goal to focus on is key,……" — Bill Rodgers
"Having your goal to focus on is key, but don't let it become more important than your excellence next year and the year after."
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35 Quotes by Bill Rodgers
Bill Rodgers has 35 quotes on this site.
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I often lose motivation, but it's something I accept as normal.
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Being a lifelong runner, knowing what running gives me, a variety of factors - that is what motivates me.
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I ran my fastest marathon in the rain.
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If you want to win a race you have to go a little berserk.
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The marathon can humble you.
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Runners...you're competitive, but you want to have fun, too. You want to enjoy life. And runners really get to do…
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Runners are the ultimate celebration people. Running is just so intense, you're really experiencing life to the fullest.
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Aiming for the marathon is a task of sorts which can include terrific highs and lows.
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My biggest weakness as a endurance athlete has been in not drinking enough water after training, thereby racing sometimes while…
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My guess is many top athletes, distance runners included, use performance-enhancing drugs, enough so that the problem must be tackled.
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Good health, peace of mind, being outdoors, camaraderie - those are all wonderful things that come to you when running.…
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Don't feel guilty about driving somewhere nice to run. If people can drive to a park to eat hot dogs,…
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate…
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Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to…
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Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason…
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Dullness in matters of government is a good sign, and not a bad one - in particular, dullness in parliamentary…
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No student ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him: it is the amount and…
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I'm a perfectionist. Sometimes I have to remind myself that it's okay if there are flaws here and there.
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It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet…
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We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point…
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Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.
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Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are…
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