Frank Shorter Quotes


37 quotes:

"You don't run 26 miles at five minutes a mile on good looks and a secret recipe."
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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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"When you are caring about your children perhaps you always have to remember at what point you can become over involved because of something you need rather than something the child needs."
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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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"What you did was live on very little. I think all of us that were competing - Bill is the same way - you don't need much to live."
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"To put it another way, Michael Jordan was a gym rat."
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"The potential elite runner must realize that hard means hard, easy means easy and they must patiently seek out what combinations work for them. They have to learn to be persistent and patient with their training and racing."
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"The marathon is all about energy management. I had planned to run it like a track race with strategic surges to blow up my competitors by putting them into oxygen debt, so that is the way I prepared."
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"The irony of that is, what makes it kind of ironic, is when you do become successful as a professional athlete in particular, a lot of the young children who are emulating these stars do have a different perspective."
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"So, in a way I was hedging and saying that if the Olympic stuff doesn't work out at least I can be a lawyer."
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"Running with others can help get you out when you might otherwise blow it off."
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"Right now, after having had back surgery, I am finally back to running again."
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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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"Intervals and other types of speed work are essential to improve running speed."
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"In other words we have marketed our way into this health crisis."
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"I was actually going to law school in 1972."
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"I think the secret of my light, quick, foot strike is related to the fact that I have fragile feet."
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"I think he had a wake-up call. It's a different kind of race, and I think maybe he didn't take it quite as seriously as he might have, but you can bet he learned a lot of lessons."
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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 plan to be running as long as I can and have no plans to stop."
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