"I always say if the marathon is a part-time interest, you will only get part-time results."

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Source : Bill Rodgers, Matthew Shepatin (2013). “Marathon Man: My 26.2-Mile Journey from Unknown Grad Student to the Top of the Running World”, p.293, Macmillan

Bill Rodgers

#Marathon Quotes #Results Quotes #Interest Quotes

“I wish the fire burned my leg hair off”
“To hell with the rules. I'm going for the unknown.”

Source : Twitter post from Nov 15, 2010
“I hope the Vandals had thorns in their sandals”
“Some people love Sundays; I don't, particularly. I used to rather dread them when I was younger. I was brought up on Sunday roasts, which I've always loathed. If I didn't finish my meat, I had to sit with it for most of the afternoon. No wonder I'm a vegetarian now.”
“I sold my soul to the devil. Lucifer will have my soul.”
“My father earned every penny he had, and I would have loved to have bought him a Rolls-Royce because his whole life was cars. Sadly, he didn't live to see the day when I could have done that for him, which still hurts.”

Source : "Bruce Forsyth: My family values" by Angela Wintle, www.theguardian.com. April 13, 2012.
“In our universe there is God and there are people and things. We were made so that we should worship God, love people and use things. However if we worship ourselves, we will ignore God, start loving things and begin to use people.”
“Really, he thought, if you couldn't trust a poet to offer sensible advice, who could you trust?”

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