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If I run 100 meters 30 times, that is 3 kilometers and no longer a sprint.
- Emil Zatopek
#Longer
#Run
#Sprint
#Times
In my country, I am just a common man... a nobody.
- Emil Zatopek
#Country
#I Am
#Just
#Man
#Nobody
To boast of a performance which I cannot beat is merely stupid vanity. And if I can beat it that means there is nothing special about it. What has passed is already finished with. What I find more interesting is what is still to come.
- Emil Zatopek
#Beat
#Find
#Nothing
#Performance
#Stupid
When I was young, I was too slow. I thought I must learn to run fast by practicing to run fast, so I ran 100 meters fast 20 times. Then I came back, slow, slow, slow.
- Emil Zatopek
#Back
#Fast
#Learn
#Slow
#Young
We are different, in essence, from other men. If you want to win something, run 100 meters. If you want to experience something, run a marathon.
- Emil Zatopek
#Essence
#Experience
#Men
#Want
#Win
I will run with perfect style when they start judging races for their beauty, like figure-skating. For now, I just want to run as fast as possible.
- Emil Zatopek
#Beauty
#Fast
#Perfect
#Start
#Style
Sometimes I feel that old desire. Then my body tells me it is 50 years old. I take the easy way instead.
- Emil Zatopek
#Body
#Desire
#Feel
#Me
#Way
If one can stick to the training throughout the many long years, then will power is no longer a problem. It's raining? That doesn't matter. I am tired? That's besides the point. It's simply that I just have to.
- Emil Zatopek
#I Am
#Long
#Power
#Tired
#Training
You can't climb up to the second floor without a ladder. When you set your aim too high and don't fulfill it, then your enthusiasm turns to bitterness. Try for a goal that's reasonable, and then gradually raise it.
- Emil Zatopek
#Aim
#Bitterness
#Enthusiasm
#Ladder
#Try
My running was very simple; it was out of myself.
- Emil Zatopek
#Myself
#Out
#Running
#Simple
#Very
What has passed is already finished with. What I find more interesting is what is still to come.
- Emil Zatopek
#Come
#Find
#Interesting
#More
#Still
I'm not interested in how long I can hold out, but in how fast I can reach the finishing line.
- Emil Zatopek
#Fast
#I Can
#Long
#Not Interested
#Reach
Why should I practice running slow? I already know how to run slow. I want to learn to run fast.
- Emil Zatopek
#Fast
#Know
#Practice
#Slow
#Why
Men, today we die a little.
- Emil Zatopek
#Die
#Little
#Men
#Today
Great is the victory, but the friendship of all is greater.
- Emil Zatopek
#Friendship
#Great
#Greater
#Victory
An athlete cannot run with money in his pockets. He must run with hope in his heart and dreams in his head.
- Emil Zatopek
#Cannot
#Dreams
#Head
#Heart
#Hope
#Money
If you want to run, run a mile. If you want to experience a different life, run a marathon.
- Emil Zatopek
#Experience
#Life
#Marathon
#Mile
#Want
It's at the borders of pain and suffering that the men are separated from the boys.
- Emil Zatopek
#Borders
#Men
#Pain
#Separated
#Suffering
A runner must run with dreams in his heart, not money in his pocket.
- Emil Zatopek
#Dreams
#Fitness
#Heart
#Money
#Must
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