Ted Corbitt famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Long-distance runners have to be very strange people. You have to really want to do it. You don't have to win or beat someone, you just have to get through the thing. That's the sense of victory. The sense of self-worth.
-- Ted Corbitt

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Buy all shoes, both street and running, slightly longer and wider than your bigger foot. Also, avoid pointed shoes. You'll save yourself needless foot pain.
-- Ted Corbitt

#Running #Pain #Shoes
Once you find a warmup routine that works, repeat it as habitually as possible.
-- Ted Corbitt

#Routine
People loose tension when they run. The feeling of self respect will almost always increase. You accept yourself a little more.
-- Ted Corbitt

#Running #Self #People
Running is something you just do. You donâ€™t need a goal. You donâ€™t need a race. You donâ€™t need the hype of a so-called fitness craze. All you need is a cheap pair of shoes and some time; the rest will follow.
-- Ted Corbitt

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How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.
You can't turn the ball over and expect to win.
Sure, I like to win when I play basketball or board games or video games, but my day isnt ruined if I lose. Im always up for a rematch. In all seriousness, thats something thats nice about maturing.
It's too late. We can't win, they've gotten too powerful.
When you get billions in aid and your weapons resupplied and your ammunition stock resupplied, you don't learn the lesson that war is bad and nobody wins.
When someone is unrelentingly critical of you, always finds fault, can never be pleased, and blames you for everything that goes wrong, it is the insidious nature and cumulative effects of the abuse that do the damage. Over time, this type of abuse eats away at your self-confidence and sense of self-worth, undermining any good feelings you have about yourself and about your accomplishments .
We women often gauge our own self-worth by the quality of our interactions with our lovers. And often these interactions are interpreted for, described for, processed by our women friends. Relationships are the conduits through which flows our connection with each other.
Our sense of self-worth is the single most important determinant of the health, abundance, and joy we allow into our lives.
When you please others in hopes of being accepted, you lose you self-worth in the process.
To the artist, all problems of art appear uniquely personal. Well, that's understandable enough, given that not many other activities routinely call one's basic self-worth into question.

Ted Corbitt famous quotes

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