"Long-distance runners have to be very strange people. You have to really want to do it. You don't have to win or beat someone, you just have to get through the thing. That's the sense of victory. The sense of self-worth."

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Ted Corbitt

#Distance Quotes #Winning Quotes #Self Worth Quotes

“True freedom is tolerant. It gives people the right to live and think in new ways.”

Source : "The Traveler". Book by John Twelve Hawks, 2005.
“Everybody loves a cliffhanger. There's great drama in elections, and the sporting analogy is very apt. There is a lot at stake for both parties and for the country. And CNN will be there to report it all, no matter how long it goes.”
“Yes, pain meant life. But the symmetric property did not apply; Life did not mean pain.”
“If my father was the head of our house, my mother was its heart.”
“[The doctrine of air] I was led into in consequence of inhabiting a house adjoining to a public brewery, where I at first amused myself with making experiments on the fixed air [carbon dioxide] which I found ready made in the process of fermentation . When I removed from that house I was under the necessity of making the fixed air for myself; and one experiment leading to another, as I have distinctly and faithfully noted in my various publications on the subject, I by degrees contrived a convenient apparatus for the purpose, but of the cheapest kind.”
“For me, winning isn't something that happens suddenly on the field when the whistle blows and the crowds roar. Winning is something that builds physically and mentally every day that you train and every night that you dream.”

Source : "Rice, Smith lead star-studded Class of 2010" by Vinnie Iyer, www.sportingnews.com. August 06, 2010.
“The birds of the air die to sustain thee; the beasts of the field die to nourish thee; the fishes of the sea die to feed thee. Our stomachs are their common sepulchre. Good God! with how many deaths are our poor lives patched up! how full of death is the life of momentary man!”
“Myself and Jamie Moffat did not agree on everything but he always knew I had the experience.”

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