Quotes with runners

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• My guess is many top athletes, distance runners included, use performance-enhancing drugs, enough so that the problem must be tackled.

  ― Bill Rodgers
  American marathon athlete (1947 - )
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• Sooner or later even the fastest runners have to stand and fight.

  Source: Just After Sunset (2008) 531

  ― Stephen King
  American author of horror and supernatural fiction (1947 - )
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• To-day, the road all runners come,
  Shoulder-high, we bring you home,
  And set you at your threshold down,
  Townsman of a stiller town.

  Source: A Shropshire Lad (1896) No. 19 (To an Athlete Dying Young), st. 2

  ― A. E. Housman
  British poet (1859 - 1936)
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• Well, stealing bases adds some runs but very few, and you lose most of the runs that you gain by having runners caught stealing.

  ― Bill James
  American baseball writer, historian, and statistician (1949 - )
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• What I think a lot of great marathon runners do is envision crossing that finish line. Visualization is critical. But for me, I set a lot of little goals along the way to get my mind off that overwhelming goal of 26.2 miles. I know I've got to get to 5, and 12, and 16, and then I celebrate those little victories along the way.

  ― Bill Rancic
  American entrepreneur (1971 - )
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Subjects in these quotes:

• performance-enhancing
• shoulder-high
• visualization
• overwhelming
• celebrate
• victories

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