"Blink and you miss a sprint. The 10,000 meters is lap after lap of waiting. Theatrically, the mile is just the right length: beginning, middle, end, a story unfolding."

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Source : "An Exclusive Club". Interview with Gary Smith, www.si.com. June 27, 1994.

Sebastian Coe

#Running Quotes #Waiting Quotes #Missing Quotes

“The man of culture is one of the poorest mortals alive. For simple pedantry and want of good sense no man is his equal. No assumption is too unreal, no end is too unpractical for him.”

Source : Frederic Harrison (1975). “Order and Progress”, p.150, Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
“Listening is a reciprocal process - we become more attentive to others if they have attended to us.”
“God is a questioner; Man is a philosopher.”
“If there is one thing I am, it's always right.”
“I live my life with a sense of urgency that most people cant comprehend.”
“Ants offer special advantages for some important kinds of basic biological research. The colony is a superorganism. It can be analyzed as a coherent unit and compared with the organism in the design of experiments, with the individuals treated as the rough analogues of cells.”
“One thing that sticks in my mind is that jazz means freedom and openness. It's a music that, although it developed out of the African American experience, speaks more about the human experience than the experience of a particular people.”
“I know many of you would say "What about the Bible?" The Bible says this, the Bible says that, the Bible is the inspired Word of God. I think the Bible is the inspired word of man - about God, and some of that is now expired.”

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