Titel: The Quotable Runner: Great Moments of Wisdom, Inspiration, Wrongheadedness and Humor
Verlag: Breakaway Books
Erscheinungsjahr: 1999
Sprache: Englisch
ISBN-10: 1558214208
ISBN-13: 9781558214200
Einband: Paperback
Zustand: Fair
Gewicht: 431 Gramm

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Contents
Introduction
The Starting Line
Voices from the Midpack (and Elsewhere)
Coaches
Eat, Drink, But Be Wary
Training
Fear
Racing
Records
Cross-Country
Hills
In the Footsteps of Atalanta
The Marathon
The Mile
Mind Over Matter
The International Runner
Pain
The Olympics
Medals and Money
The Finish Line: Retirement
Victories and Defeats
Who's Who

A few of our favorite quotes:

"Bid me run and I will strive with things impossible." �Shakespeare

"Long distance running is particularly good training in perseverance." �Chairman Mao

"Without ice cream there would be darkness and chaos." �Don Kardong

"Mental will is a muscle that needs exercise, like the muscles of the body." �Lynn Jennings

"If you want to win a race you have to go a little berserk." �Bill Rodgers

"Running is the greatest metaphor for life, because you get out of it what you put into it." �Oprah Winfrey "The mile has all the elements of drama." �Roger Bannister

"Mind is everything. Muscle � pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind." �Paavo Nurmi

"The will to win means nothing without the will to prepare." �Juma Ikangaa
"Start slowly, then taper off." �Walt Stack

"Records are made to be broken." �Anonymous

Introduction by Mark Will-Weber

Compiling a book of quotations is a bit like prospecting. For long, unrewarded hours you sift through the silt, murk, and bottom mud which comprise the great body of sports literature and journalism�all for that rare nugget of gold.

I began work on The Quotable Runner without actually realizing that I was doing it. (I highly recommend this method for any lengthy task if you can arrange it.) The first few hundred quotations that I gathered were used at the bottom of race results, in batches of five or six quotes per race, which I passed on to the cross-country runners at Moravian College in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. As their coach, I thought it might be a fun way to jazz up the results sheets and inspire the runners to train with diligence and a new spark. Maybe a line from Zatopek, Nurmi, or Benoit would ignite a dre

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Mark Will-Weber is the editor of The Quotable Runner, Breakaway's best-selling title. Former editor of Runner's World.

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