John Landy famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The mile has a classic symmetry....It's a play in four acts.
-- John Landy

#Running #Play #Four
Almost every part of the mile is tactically important: you can never let down, never stop thinking, and you can be beaten at almost any point. I suppose you could say it is like life.
-- John Landy

#Running #Inspirational Life #Thinking
To understand Cerutty you have to see him as a multifaceted personality. He could be both charming and very abusive. He was extremely amusing and darn good company providing you weren't quarrelling with him.
-- John Landy

#Running #Personality #Good Company
If any running event, you are absolutely alone. Nobody can help you.
-- John Landy

#Running #Track #Events
Iâ€™d rather lose a 3:58 mile than win one in 4:10.
-- John Landy

#Winning #Miles
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-- John Landy

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Grind it out. Hanging on just one second longer than your competition makes you the winner. If you can't win, make the fellow ahead of you break the record. The mile has a classic symmetry....It's a play in four acts.
-- John Landy

#Winning #Play #Competition
I’d rather lose a 3:58 mile than win one in 4:10.
-- John Landy

#Winning #Miles #Loses

The movie, like the book before it, is an expertly built machine for the mass production of tears. Directed by Josh Boone ('Stuck in Love') with scrupulous respect for John Green's best-selling young-adult novel, the film sets out to make you weep -- not just sniffle or choke up a little, but sob until your nose runs and your face turns blotchy. It succeeds.
I think it's important to take a break, you know, from the public eye for a while, and give people a chance to miss you. I want longevity. I don't want to get out there and run myself ragged and spread myself thin.
Geniuses come in many shapes and colors, and they often run in packs. If you can find one, it may lead you to others. Collaborate with geniuses. Send them your spells. Look carefully at theirs. What could you do together? Combination is creation.
Animals play a big part in my life, on tour or at home.
The thing you realize as you get older and you play, that you don't really understand when you're a backup the first few offseasons, how important that mental rest is. It's a grind physically during the season, dealing with the hits and the physical pain that goes with playing in this game. But mentally it's probably more taxing, so you need that ability to find that escape.
When you're writing a movie or a play and writing isn't going well, which is for me the normal condition - it's an exceptional day when suddenly I've got something and it's going well - you can call the studio or the producer or whoever is waiting for it and say, "I know I said I was going to have it in by the end of the summer.
Helen Mirren and Meryl Streep can play with the boys but there just aren't that many tour-de-force roles out there for women,
I've been called a moron since I was about four. My father called me a moron. My grandfather said I was a moron. And a lot of times when I'm driving, I hear I'm a moron. I like being a moron.
And it was like knocking four quick times on the door of unhappiness.
If honey bees become extinct, human society will follow in four years.

John Landy famous quotes

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