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Running Quotes by Arthur Lydiard
- They're very tenacious. They're dedicated. Once a woman decides she's going to do something, she'll probably stick to it. The only problem with women is…
- The idea that you can't lose contact with the leaders has cut more throats than it has saved.
- You must realize one thing. In every little village in the world there are great potential champions who only need motivation, development and good exercise…
- 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…
- Encourage kids to enjoy running and play in athletics. Don't force them to run too much competition.
- I have a saying 'train, don't strain.' The Americans have the saying 'no pain, no gain' and that's why they have no distance running champions.…
- I discovered years ago that the best results in this respect could be gained by running 100 miles weekly at my near best aerobic efforts…
- 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…
- If you want to be a successful runner, you have to consider everything. It's no good just thinking about endurance and not to develop fine…
More Running Quotes
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- I have nothing against 3-D in theory. But I've also never run to the movies because something's in 3-D. — J. J. Abrams
- To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does… — Aristotle
- I exercise everyday. I swim, I bike, I run and I go to the gym. — Lance Armstrong
- I believe that every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don't intend to waste any of mine running around doing… — Neil Armstrong
- I don't run a car, have never run a car. I could say that this is because I have this extremely tender… — David Attenborough
- We thought we were running away from the grownups, and now we are the grownups. — Margaret Atwood
- Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Let not your mind run on what you lack as much as on what you have already. — Marcus Aurelius
- We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears… — Marcus Aurelius
- The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit. — Teresa of Avila
- If you look at the themes that he struck from the minute he started running for president through today, there is a… — David Axelrod