"But I also realize that winning doesn't always mean getting first place; it means getting the best out of yourself."

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Source : Meb Keflezighi (2010). “Run to Overcome: The Inspiring Story of an American Champion's Long-Distance Quest to Achieve a Big Dream”, p.176, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

Meb Keflezighi

#Running Quotes #Mean Quotes #Winning Quotes

“Her cake is a failure, but she is loved anyway. She is loved, she thinks, in more or less the way the gifts will be appreciated: because they have been given with good intentions , because they exist, because they are part of a world in which one wants what one gets.”
“If one is a greyhound, why try to look like a Pekingese?”
“The left no longer stands for common sense, as it did in the days of Tom Paine.”
“Left Behind takes what to some people may be unbelievable predictions from the Bible and shows how they might play out. It makes the events of biblical prophecy understandable and thus believable.”
“Her vice takes hold of her again, but she still refrains until some moment when, gnawed by some hideous caprice, she comes aground like a mournful wreck ruined by lust, in the midst of her own banal, perfidious pollution.”
“Giving kids whatever they ask for is disastrous parenting. There's no sense of something earned. I'm sorry, but when you're 12, you don't need a new cell phone every few months just because a new one comes out.”
“I'm home. I hope the Manchester United fans forgive me for being late.”
“I'm an Asian with a Southern accent. To a lot of people, that right there is funny.”

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