Gerry Lindgren famous quotes

Run with your heart instead of your mind. When you think with your mind, you think of the things you can and can't do. But when you run with your heart you forget about what you can't do, and you just go out and do it.
-- Gerry Lindgren

#Running #Heart #Thinking

I should be doing that too. I should be out there running and racing. I should be taking care of my body.
-- Gerry Lindgren

#Running #Racing #Body

When I first came into international running, most runners did about 60-70 miles or running a week. I guess that is still the standard except for Kenya and Ethiopia. I was doing 150-250 a week and some weeks as high as 350. It was unheard of! But, because I did not have access to what was possible and standard, I had to set my own possibilities and standards. I was just lucky enough to be out of the loop and not know.
-- Gerry Lindgren

#Running #Lucky #Kenya

COURAGE is not a quality you teach. Courage is the by-product of self-discipline. It is an ATTITUDE.
-- Gerry Lindgren

#Attitude #Self #Discipline

My key to victory was that I always went out way too fast. Too fast erases every other race strategy out there. Everyone is hanging on for dear life or they give up.
-- Gerry Lindgren

#Giving Up #Keys #Race

Wanting to win races is detrimental to courage. You tend to run too conservatively because you want to wait and sprint. If you are there to force the pace, to CREATE greatness rather than to have greatness, Courageous moves are a part of your race.
-- Gerry Lindgren

#Running #Moving #Winning

Set a new standard. Change reality. Break ground to something new and different. That achievement will live forever just because you WERE somebody special!
-- Gerry Lindgren

#Reality #Achievement #Forever

Kids are afraid that if they race too fast they will get tired. Way too much fear and way too little COURAGE.
-- Gerry Lindgren

#Tired #Kids #Race

I just wanted to quit running. My coach, Tracy Walters, took me aside and told me that I had an opportunity few people ever get. He said that I could inspire the whole team because I was so small and unathletic.
-- Gerry Lindgren

#Running #Team #Opportunity

Goals should be impossible! You should tread FEARLESSLY where the brave dare not go.
-- Gerry Lindgren

#Goal #Brave #Impossible

The only thing that lives beyond the grave is the wake you have created by the way you have lived your life; the goals you have set; the distance away from the normal you dared to tread.
-- Gerry Lindgren

#Distance #Goal #Wakes You

The hard part is believing it can happen to you. Most likely, my runners will never achieve a 3-minute mile. I think they may all be disappointed at 3:20 or 3:30. But even if they never break 4-minutes they will have accomplished something DYNAMIC! They will have created the possibility than now does not exist.
-- Gerry Lindgren

#Believe #Thinking #May

Speedwork is terribly overrated! I remember talking to runners after distance races and someone is sure to say they were able to run fast off base work with no speed work at all. The truth is speedwork doesn't work. Lots of miles, and then fast miles gets you there much quicker than speed work.
-- Gerry Lindgren

#Running #Distance #Race

Everyone dies whether one is good in their lifetime or evil in their lifetime. So virtue has no payback. Life is meaningless. When you die, you die!
-- Gerry Lindgren

#Evil #Payback #Life Is

Based on my experience; I would develop fast speed before anything else. Get your young runners so they can run and teach them speed.
-- Gerry Lindgren

#Running #Speed #Young

There are champions in every neighborhood. Anyone can run to the very top. ANYONE! But you have to (a) start right, (b) think right, and (c) believe. Most runners get lost in one or more of those three steps.
-- Gerry Lindgren

#Running #Believe #Thinking

I would instill in my team an attitude of role modeling. We run to teach other people the value of physical activity. In all things, be humble and appreciative; hurt no one; help anyone you can.
-- Gerry Lindgren

#Running #Hurt #Attitude

We didn't keep track of how many miles we ran back then. We just ran. If you LOVE to run with the kind of passion I have for running, you will understand this. Running was my mode of transportation.
-- Gerry Lindgren

#Running #Passion #Track

The FEAR of becoming dehydrated causes dehydration. As with so many things in our life, it is because we KNOW it is a problem that it is a problem.
-- Gerry Lindgren

#Dehydration #Causes #Becoming

The 3-minute mile goal is to teach runners that the impossible is where goals should be set.
-- Gerry Lindgren

#Goal #Impossible #Should

This life is made to change all reality. We are here for the benefit, happiness, and welfare of a new reality; a new direction.
-- Gerry Lindgren

#Reality #Benefits #Life Is

If you KNOW dehydration is a problem in long runs it becomes a problem in long runs.
-- Gerry Lindgren

#Running #Long #Dehydration

I never did cross training or lifted weights or put anything between myself and my passion for running.
-- Gerry Lindgren

#Running #Passion #Training

I always enjoyed the training more than I did the racing. There was a high level of anxiety in racing that I did not enjoy. Training runs set me FREE. I could imagine the race in my mind and race as if it were the actual race.
-- Gerry Lindgren

#Running #Race #Anxiety

When you hit a certain spot you Sprint no matter how you feel inside or what your co-runner thinks. You just go! In training as a nickel, you sprint because you need to sprint! You just do it! In racing people see it and call it courage, but it is attitude; determination; duty.
-- Gerry Lindgren

#Determination #Attitude #Thinking

Humans are a TOUGH animal! We can do anything.
-- Gerry Lindgren

#Animal #Tough #Humans