Frank Shorter Quotes
37 Frank Shorter quotes:
"I think it is that parents just don't kick their kids out the door as much as they used to. I think the demise of sandlot sports has had a lot to do with it."
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"I admire runners older than I - they are now my heroes. I want to be like them as I grow older."
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"In other words we have marketed our way into this health crisis."
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"You don't run 26 miles at five minutes a mile on good looks and a secret recipe."
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"As I've been able to once again gain the benefits of speed work, I'm enjoying my running more and more."
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"Being in school is the best place to be if you are an athlete because you can structure your own time."
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"Hills are speedwork in disguise."
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"Intervals and other types of speed work are essential to improve running speed."
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"It is just called Continuing Legal Education. You can go to lectures, you can even listen to tapes on airplanes - they want you to stay current. So you do have to stay current to maintain your license even if you are not practicing."
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"Running with others can help get you out when you might otherwise blow it off."
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"When I am totally race fit, I don't worry about breathing or technique - they take care of themselves."
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"Really, I think that going out and playing with your friends is kind of becoming a lost art, with the kids in the neighborhood."
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"There's obviously some validity to it. But I think it also points out that you obviously can do it on your own because people have been doing it long before they had the stuff."
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"For the novice runner, I'd say to give yourself at least 2 months of consistently running several times a week at a conversational pace before deciding whether you want to stick with it. Consistency is the most important aspect of training at this point."
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"I graduated from Yale in 1969, from the University of Florida Law School in 1974, and passed the Colorado bar and was admitted in 1975."
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"I started in law school in '71 and graduated in '74. So I was training for the Olympics, running or averaging around 20 miles a day and going to law school full time."
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"I was actually going to law school in 1972."
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"To put it another way, Michael Jordan was a gym rat."
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"Yes, winning the gold medal was undoubtedly the biggest day of my career - mostly because I won the way I had prepared to run it. It was a totally satisfying experience."
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"A good athlete always mentally replays a competition over and over, even in victory, to see what might be done to improve the performance the next time."
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