"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."

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Source : Interview with Mick Grant, John Molvar, www.youthrunner.com. January 12, 2011.

Gerry Lindgren

#Running Quotes #Race Quotes #Anxiety Quotes

“We are motivated more by aversion to the unpleasant than by a will toward truth, freedom, or healing. We are constantly attempting to escape our life, to avoid rather than enter our pain we, and we wonder why it is so difficult to be fully alive. (43)”
“Gotta get up and try.”

Source : Song: Try, Album: The Truth About Love, 2012
“A lot of writers and artists are like chefs who eat their own cooking in the kitchen and then deliver an empty plate with assurances that it's great. Whereas the chef makes cake and sometimes tastes it with a finger, but that's it - the rest is for the people.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“I'm a frotteur, someone who likes to rub words in his hand, to turn them around and feel them, to wonder if that really is the best word possible.”

Source : "James Salter, The Art of Fiction No. 133". Interview with Edward Hirsch, www.theparisreview.org. 1993.
“You must pay for your sins. If you have already paid, please ignore this notice.”
“I'll never stop dreaming that one day we can be a real family, together, all of us laughing and talking, loving and understanding, not looking at the past but only to the future.”
“Nosology (from the Greek nosos, meaning disease, and logos, referring to study) is not a sport for the timid, and certainly not for those so scrupulous about rules and order that they demand consistency in all things.”
“Loneliness remembers what happiness forgets”

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