Filbert Bayi famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I was out training one black night when I heard a noise. I turned around and saw a leopard. I threw some stones at him and he went away, so I went on my way.
-- Filbert Bayi

#Night #Black #Training
Think about the change that occurred in the 1500m at Christchurch. The 1500m was usually a slow race and then a sprint [at the finish]. But in 1974 I changed that from the beginning to the end. And not many people have thought about that.
-- Filbert Bayi

#Thinking #Race #People
To say that politics is not a part of sports is not being realistic. When I run, I am more than a runner. I am a diplomat, an ambassador for my country.
-- Filbert Bayi

#Sports #Running #Country

Lovers lying two and two Ask not whom they sleep beside, And the bridegroom all night through Never turns him to the bride.
Perhaps something like Facebook couldn't have been invented by somebody who goes out five nights a week and has a ton of friends and makes friends really easily.
I love Prospect Park-watching fireflies at night and going to the bandshell for free music.
Mainstream medias representation, or its guerrilla decontextualization, of black mens lives in particular can set the stage for erroneous assumptions capable of damaging an individual or a nation.
In theory, cars are fairly simple. If they don't start, it's either the fuel system or the electrical system. Teach yourself about the path of each in your engine and tracing it is fairly straightforward. But at the beginning, mastering each new system seems like an unreachable shore. The car is effectively a black box.
The only difference is now more young black men are in the spotlight.
There is no specialized art of prayer. All of life must be a training to pray. We pray the way we live.
To exercise at or near capacity is the best way I know of reaching a true introspective state. If you do it right, it can open all kinds of inner doors.
And I think that still is true of this business - which is basically research and development - that you probably spend more time in planning and training and designing for things to go wrong, and how you cope with them, than you do for things to go right.
What is difficult in training will become easy in a battle

Filbert Bayi famous quotes

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