"I was thinking back to all the time in the gym, working hard, and that spurred me on [winning New York marathon just ten months after giving birth"

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Paula Radcliffe

#New York Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Winning Quotes

“If you don't have obsessions, don't write. my characters are obsessed.”
“Be the holder of your own Nature. It is a joyful responsibility.”
“There isnâ€™t a person in this city more dangerous than a wolf whose mate is in danger.”
“It is not I who have been consigned to the bedroom of history....”
“My life is very exciting now. Nostalgia for what? It's like climbing a staircase. I'm on the top of the staircase, I look behind and see the steps. That's where I was. We're here right now. Tomorrow, we'll be someplace else. So why nostalgia?”
“The silver-leaved birch retains in its old age a soft bark; there are some such men.”
“The true poet, is like a man who's happy anywhere, in endless measure, if he's allowed to look at leaves and grass, to see the sun rise and set.”
“I can't be left unsupervised.”

Source : "The do Ron Ron" by Mariella Frostrup, www.theguardian.com. December 02, 2001.

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