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Athlete Quotes by Arthur Lydiard
- Well, no athlete respects a big, fat coach who's going to stand there and rest the watch on his stomach.
- Athletes need to enjoy their training. They don't enjoy going down to the track with a coach making them do repetitions until they're exhausted. From…
- I get more gratification out of getting some obese person who had a heart attack running around and enjoying life within a year. I get…
- No one will burn out doing aerobic running. It is too much anaerobic running, which the American scholastic athletic system tends to put young athletes…
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- The ideal attitude is to be physically loose and mentally tight. — Arthur Ashe
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- A revised schedule is to business what a new season is to an athlete or a new canvas to an artist. — Norman Ralph Augustine
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