"It takes patience to become the best runner you can be. Top athletes realize that running is a long-term sport. It is set up for people who value delayed gratification and who like hard-earned success."

-- Anthony Famiglietti

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“Men have always volunteered, they just called themselves coaches, trustees, and firemen!”
“Our definition of a weakness is anything that gets in the way of excellent performance.”

Source : Marcus Buckingham, Donald O. Clifton (2001). “Now, Discover Your Strengths”, p.148, Simon and Schuster
“It is good that a man's enemies want him dead, for it proves he has lived a life of worth.”

Source : Forrest Carter (1989). “Josey Wales: Two Westerns : Gone to Texas; The Vengeance Trail of Josey Wales”, p.64, UNM Press
“We know in the field of aging that some people tend to senesce, or grow older, more rapidly than others, and some more slowly.”
“Skinny' is only one body type.”
“Columbus went around the world in 1492. That isn't a lot of strokes when you consider the course.”
“Every morning, just like in Alabama, I got up with the sun, ate my breakfast even before my mother and sisters and brothers, and went to school, winter, spring, and fall alike to run and jump and bend my body this way and that for Mr. Charles Riley.”
“I do not know when, but I know that many have come in this century to develop arts and sciences, sow the seeds of a new culture that will flourish, unexpected, sudden, just when the power is deluded into believing they have won.”

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