"The marathon can humble you." — Bill Rodgers
"The marathon can humble you."
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Bill Rodgers
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35 Quotes by Bill Rodgers
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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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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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I also feel it usually takes four or five races to hit your best marathon for your body to be…
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There is something in humility which strangely exalts the heart.
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I've never had a humble opinion. If you've got an opinion, why be humble about it?
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The praise that comes from love does not make us vain, but more humble.
— James M. Barrie
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Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble.
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The unassuming youth seeking instruction with humility gains good fortune.
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Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Dear brothers and sisters, after the great Pope John Paul II, the cardinals have elected me - a simple, humble…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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The proud do not change to improve, but defend their position by rationalizing. Repentance means change, and it takes a…
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To the proud, the applause of the world rings in their ears; to the humble, the applause of heaven warms…
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If I was freer than I had ever been in my life, I was not yet entirely free, for I…
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I am but one member of a vast team made up of many organizations, officials, thousands of scientists, and millions…
— Norman Borlaug
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The true way to be humble is not to stoop until you are smaller than yourself, but to stand at…
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