Frank Shorter famous quotes

Running with others can help get you out when you might otherwise blow it off.
-- Frank Shorter

#Running #Blow #Might

I admire runners older than I - they are now my heroes. I want to be like them as I grow older.
-- Frank Shorter

#Hero #Want #Admire

You have to forget your last marathon before you try another. Your mind can't know what's coming.
-- Frank Shorter

#Running #Mind #Trying

Hills are speedwork in disguise.
-- Frank Shorter

#Inspirational #Motivational #Running

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.
-- Frank Shorter

#Sports #Running #Focus

Three half-mile repeats on the track at 5-K race pace with a short recovery jog in between shouldn't scare anyone away-and it will improve your speed.
-- Frank Shorter

#Recovery #Race #Track

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

#Running #Simple #Goal

There's always the feeling of getting stronger. I think that's what keeps me going.
-- Frank Shorter

#Thinking #Feelings #Stronger

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.
-- Frank Shorter

#Running #Suffering #Littles

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.
-- Frank Shorter

#Softball #Sports #Athlete

You train best where you are the happiest.
-- Frank Shorter

#Running #Where You Are #Train

I want my time spent running to serve as a reward.
-- Frank Shorter

#Running #Giving Up #Want

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.
-- Frank Shorter

#Running #Europe #Bob

Be willing to move forward and find out what happens next.
-- Frank Shorter

#Moving #Moving Forward #Next

I plan to be running as long as I can and have no plans to stop.
-- Frank Shorter

#Running #Long #Plans

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.
-- Frank Shorter

#Work Out #Lawyer

Because running fast is more fun than running slow.
-- Frank Shorter

#Running #Fun #Running Fast

You don't run 26 miles at five minutes a mile on good looks and a secret recipe.
-- Frank Shorter

#Inspirational #Funny #Motivational

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

#Running #New York #Firsts

My goal is to break three hours in a marathon
-- Frank Shorter

#Goal #Three #Marathon

How did I know you ran a 4:30 mile in high school? That's easy. Everyone ran a 4:30 mile in high school.
-- Frank Shorter

#School #Easy #Miles

Again, racing for me was about energy management.
-- Frank Shorter

#Racing #Energy #Management

In other words we have marketed our way into this health crisis.
-- Frank Shorter

#Way #Crisis

As I've been able to once again gain the benefits of speed work, I'm enjoying my running more and more.
-- Frank Shorter

#Running #Benefits #Able

Being in school is the best place to be if you are an athlete because you can structure your own time.
-- Frank Shorter

#Athlete #School #Structure

Intervals and other types of speed work are essential to improve running speed.
-- Frank Shorter

#Running #Essentials #Speed

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.
-- Frank Shorter

#Children #Caring #Needs

I was actually going to law school in 1972.
-- Frank Shorter

#Sports #School #Law

Right now, after having had back surgery, I am finally back to running again.
-- Frank Shorter

#Sports #Running #Surgery

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.
-- Frank Shorter

#Sports #Thinking #Long

I think the secret of my light, quick, foot strike is related to the fact that I have fragile feet.
-- Frank Shorter

#Thinking #Light #Feet

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.
-- Frank Shorter

#Running #Blow #Race

Running a marathon is just like reading a good book. After a while you're just not conscious of the physical act of reading.
-- Frank Shorter

#Running #Book #Reading

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.
-- Frank Shorter

#Education #Airplane #Tape

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

#Training #Mind #Body

The weather is perfect. The gods are shining on us.
-- Frank Shorter

#Weather #Perfect #Shining

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.
-- Frank Shorter

#Sports #Kids #Thinking

To put it another way, Michael Jordan was a gym rat.
-- Frank Shorter

#Gym Rats #Way #Jordan

I also held several masters running titles.
-- Frank Shorter

#Running #Titles #Masters

It is not the time spent with the child at their activity that is going to produce the highest level athlete. It is in supporting the child in an organized activity so the child can find what they truly like to do and let them go.
-- Frank Shorter

#Children #Athlete #Levels

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.
-- Frank Shorter

#Thinking #Race #Different

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.
-- Frank Shorter

#Running #Winning #Careers

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.
-- Frank Shorter

#Stars #Children #Athlete

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.
-- Frank Shorter

#Mean #Preparation #Racing

Why couldn't Pheidippides have died at 20 miles?
-- Frank Shorter

#Endurance #Miles

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.
-- Frank Shorter

#Sports #Running #Talking

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.
-- Frank Shorter

#Sports #Running #School