Frank Shorter Quotes

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  • Experience has taught me how important it is to just keep going, focusing on running fast and relaxed. Eventually it passes and the flow returns. It's part of racing.

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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.

  • 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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  • 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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  • The thing that makes [Bob] Kennedy so good is that he doesn't have a fear of losing. He was willing to go to Europe and get hammered.

  • 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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  • In other words we have marketed our way into this health crisis.

  • Running with others can help get you out when you might otherwise blow it off.

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  • When you first run up First Avenue in New York, if you don't get goose bumps, theres something wrong with you.

  • Be willing to move forward and find out what happens next.

  • You train best where you are the happiest.

  • I plan to be running as long as I can and have no plans to stop.

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  • You can actually suffer a little bit more going slowly than when you're going really fast. A faster marathon might even be easier than a slow one, in terms of what it takes out of you mentally.

  • My goal has always been to slow down as slowly as possible. It's as simple as that.

  • 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.

  • Intervals and other types of speed work are essential to improve running speed.

  • I was actually going to law school in 1972.

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  • Hills are speedwork in disguise.

  • 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.

  • I also held several masters running titles.

  • Numbers don't lie. You always seem to remember your workouts as being a little better than they were. It's good to go back and review what you do.

  • I want my time spent running to serve as a reward.

    Frank Shorter, Marc Bloom (1984). “Olympic gold: a runner's life and times”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • 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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  • You have to forget your last marathon before you try another. Your mind can't know what's coming.

  • 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 weather is perfect. The gods are shining on us.

  • You have to know your body. It's part of the beauty of the training process, and once you've determined how much your body and mind can take, you can then begin to reach your potential.

    Frank Shorter, Marc Bloom (1984). “Olympic gold: a runner's life and times”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • 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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  • To put it another way, Michael Jordan was a gym rat.

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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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    Frank Shorter

    • Born: October 31, 1947
    • Occupation: Olympic athlete