"Sometimes I run and I don't even feel the effort of running. I don't even feel the ground. I'm just drifting. Incredible feeling. All the agony and frustration, they're all justified by one moment like that"

-- Steve Ovett

#Running Quotes #Frustration Quotes #Agony Quotes

“The warrior who had gone out from the lake to save his people by slaying the evil one was now just a boy sitting in the dirt with his fingers in a mane of blond hair. He stared at nothing. Expected nothing. Planned nothing. Just sat.”
“There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.”
“Explore your mind, discover yourself, then give the best that is in you to your age and to your world. There are heroic possibilities waiting to be discovered in every person”

Source : Wilferd Arlan Peterson, Xizhen Wu (1978). “當代的生活藝術”
“But I have contrived an explanation which has every advantage; is inviting to christians of every communion; gradually frees them from all religious prejudices; cultivates the social virtues; and animates them by a great, a feasable, a speedy prospect of universal happiness, in a state of liberty and moral equality, freed from the obstacles which subordination, rank, and riches, continually throw in our way. My explanation is accurate and complete, my means are effectual, and irresistable. Our secret association works in a way that nothing can withstand, and man shall soon be free and happy.”
“I was struggling against corruption and the only thing... my only weapon was to put the truth in the medias and of course it made me win lots of enemies that didn't want me to just denounce what was happening.”

Source : "Big Think Interview With Ingrid Betancourt". Interview with Max Miller, bigthink.com. October 19, 2010.
“A successful economic development strategy must focus on improving the skills of the area's workforce, reducing the cost of doing business and making available the resources business needs to compete and thrive in today's global economy.”

Source : "Gov. Blagojevich Announces Major Opportunity Returns Investment to Bring Leading Manufacturer and 480 Jobs to Macomb". Illinois Government Network, February 22, 2005.
“I've become a body of films, not a man, I am all those films.”
“Failure is good. It's fertilizer. Everything I've learned about coaching I've learned from making mistakes.”

You may also like:

Alberto Juantorena
Olympic athlete
Brendan Foster
Runner
Daley Thompson
Olympic athlete
Hicham El Guerrouj
Runner
John Treacy
Olympic athlete
Kelly Holmes
Olympic athlete
Noureddine Morceli
Olympic athlete
Roger Bannister
Athlete
Sebastian Coe
British Politician