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Running Quotes by Herb Elliott
- The important thing is the attitude of the athlete, the desire to get to the top.
- The only tactics I admire are do-or-die
- The single biggest change in middle-distance running, from the 1500 metres to 10,000 metres, has been the track surface.
- The greatest stimulator of my running career was fear.
- I have never been a killer. I'm not an aggressive personality and if I can remember any emotion I felt during a race it was…
- Poetry, music, forests, oceans, solitude-they were what developed enormous spiritual strength. I came to realize that spirit, as much or more than physical conditioning, had…
- I had a dual goal in my running that was to win and to achieve excellence, so I was never happy with a slow tactical…
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