"It's probably the toughest distance race in the world to win. World class runners from 1500m to the marathon contest it and instead of just three runners from each country, like in the Olympics or World Championships, in the senior men's race there are nine."

-- Paul Tergat

#Senior Quotes #Running Quotes #Country Quotes

“But it never ceases to amaze me how difficult the things that are supposed to be instinctive really are.”

Source : Rachel Joyce (2012). “The Unlikely Pilgrimage Of Harold Fry”, p.52, Random House
“Every great story deserves a great ending”
“Appeasement, said Winston Churchill, consists of being nice to a crocodile in the hope that he will eat you last. At the moment, the biggest crocodile in the world is Microsoft, and everybody is busy sucking up to it.”
“Architecture appears for the first time when the sunlight hits a wall. The sunlight did not know what it was before it hit a wall.”
“There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it ill behaves any of us to find fault with the rest of us.”
“Perhaps your challenge isn't finding a better project or a better boss. Perhaps you need to get in touch with what it means to feel passionate. People with passion look for ways to make things happen.”
“My mother encouraged it so much. She was so supportive. Even if as a kid, I would do the dumbest trick, which now that I look back on some things, she would love it, she would say that's amazing, or if I'd make the ugliest drawing, she would hang it up. She was amazing.”
“I like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more.”

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