Rod Milburn famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

You must see yourself run the race over and over, time and time again. You must put yourself in critical positions and see how you would react in those positions before the race so when and if they do happen, the feedback is automatic.
-- Rod Milburn

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I never really worried about those hurdles. They were just standing there, and I was always zooming past them just to get back on the ground again.
-- Rod Milburn

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When your timing is off, so is your stride. When your cadence is off, you're in deep trouble as a hurdler.
-- Rod Milburn

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I used to get so comfortable running the hurdles, I was just like a ballet dancer going out there and going through the routines.
-- Rod Milburn

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A good hurdler has to be completely familiar with everything that goes on so if something happens he can automatically make an adjustment.
-- Rod Milburn

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Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.
The death of a dream can in fact serve as the vehicle that endows it with new form, with reinvigorated substance, a fresh flow of ideas, and splendidly revitalized color. In short, the power of a certain kind of dream is such that death need not indicate finality at all but rather signify a metaphysical and metaphorical leap forward.
Science, in the very act of solving problems, creates more of them.
Saint George killed the last dragon, and he was called a hero for it. I've never seen a dragon, and I wish he would have left at least one. Saint Patrick made a name for himself by running the snakes out of Ireland, leaving the place vulnerable to rodent infestation. This business of making saints out of men who exterminate their fellow creatures has got to stop. All I'm saying is, it's starting to get a little lonely up here at the top of the food chain.
I've had my run in with trouble. Fortunately, you know, one slap on the hand is usually the last time for me... I learned my lesson.
He wasn't what sent me running. He was what had made me want to stay.
On matters of race, on matters of decency, baseball should lead the way.
Science is global. Einstein's equation, E=mc2, has to reach everywhere. Science is a beautiful gift to humanity, we should not distort it. Science does not differentiate between multiple races.
We feel strongly that the spirit characteristic of America at its noblest, above all the pursuit of higher learning, cannot admit of any conditions as to personnel other than those designed to promote the objects for which this institution is established, and particularly with no regard whatever to accidents of race, creed, or sex.
I believe that the only way that the human race is gonna survive is to start colonizing space and setting up colonies on the moon, and then space stations.

Rod Milburn famous quotes

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