#marathon

The Muslim world and its subset the countries of the Middle East have been left behind in the marathon of political, economic and human development. For that, there is a tendency to blame others as the primary cause. ↗

— Recep Tayyip Erdogan

#behind #blame #cause #countries #development

I set myself some specific goals, but the key one is just getting myself into as good a shape as possible for one day this year: the Olympic marathon. ↗

— Paula Radcliffe

#getting #goals #good #i #into

I'm convinced that a lot of people run ultramarathons for the same reason they take mood-altering drugs. I don't mean to minimize the gifts of friendship, achievement, and closeness to nature that I've received in my running carer. But the longer and farther I ran, the more I realized that what I was often chasing was a state of mind - a place where worries that seemed monumental melted away, where the beauty and timelessness of the universe, of the present moment, came into sharp focus. ↗

— Scott Jurek

#beauty

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 #marathon #men #meters

The Federal appropriations process is a marathon, not a sprint, and we are at the beginning of that process. ↗

— Jim Walsh

#beginning #federal #marathon #process #sprint

If you don't ever stop singing, your voice stays in shape. It's like the marathon runner. You've got to run, run, run to stay in shape. ↗

— Sammy Hagar

#got #like #marathon #run #runner

But it is nice to know that you have other races lined up, because sometimes you can get so focused on your next marathon that it can become kind of unhealthy in some ways. So it's nice to have something else to slap you in the face and say, all right, there is life after the Olympics. ↗

— Ryan Hall

#because #become #else #face #focused

I couldn't be more excited to return to the ING New York City Marathon. ↗

— Ryan Hall

#excited #i #marathon #more #new

I try to avoid the temptation with time as a total indicator for what my possibilities are for the marathon. It's the not the best indicator, but it's more how you feel, how you cover the distance and how you are able to do the training afterward. ↗

— Ryan Hall

#avoid #best #cover #distance #feel

Our favorite: a former garbage dump converted into a riverside park. I first ran there more than 30 years ago when a marathon passed through this park that later became home to Pre's Trail. ↗

— Joe Henderson

#became #converted #dump #favorite #first