Bits Quote by Ted Turner

I didn't realise how tightly wound I was until I retired because I would think about racing pretty close to 24 hours a day,…

— Dario Franchitti

After college I picked my races to be one race every two weeks. That gave me time to recover. I raced just as fast…

— Gerry Lindgren

I used to run a full marathon in three hours and 25 or 26 minutes. Not any more.

— Haruki Murakami

I was unable to walk for a whole week after that, so much did the race take out of me. But it was the…

— Emil Zatopek

My best time is a 3:20 in Paris in 2010, and I trained to try for a 3-hour marathon in New York, but Hurricane…

— Sam Heughan

Endurance running was my passion, my ride. So here, I was in the driver's seat, running for two days straight pushing the mental and…

— Dean Karnazes

I really live for the racing, the moments in those races where everything slows down even though you're swimming as fast as possible.

— Jessica Long

I sort of fall apart in terms of stamina after about 25 minutes!

— Gary Lineker

I'm a keen runner, so I try to fit in a half hour every other day.

— Olly Murs

Other nights ... I visualize to the point that I know exactly what I want to do: dive, glide, stroke, flip, reach the wall,…

— Michael Phelps

I can't really do the running on hard ground that I used to do. Instead I go swimming as often as possible.

— Jamie Dornan

I was a swimmer growing up. I was a miler - like long, long distance. So I was in the water for four or…

— Scott Speedman