#runner

If I run I lose so much weight, which I need because you're limited on weight when you are a tall driver. And have you seen marathon runners? They're quite skinny. ↗

— Jenson Button

#driver #i #limited #lose #marathon

The base paths belonged to me, the runner. The rules gave me the right. I always went into a bag full speed, feet first. I had sharp spikes on my shoes. If the baseman stood where he had no business to be and got hurt, that was his fault. ↗

— Ty Cobb

#bag #base #baseman #belonged #business

In athletics, older runners tend to go for longer races, but it's the opposite in swimming because your body can't handle the endurance. ↗

— Kirsty Coventry

#because #body #endurance #go #handle

I wasn't a big science fiction aficionado, there were a few films like 2001 or Blade Runner that were favorites of mine, but since I started this series I have gained more respect for the genre and become more of a fan myself. ↗

— Joe Flanigan

#become #big #blade #blade runner #fan

In some of the middle colonies the towns and counties were both active and had a relation with each other which was the forerunner of the present system of local government in the Western States. ↗

— Albert Bushnell Hart

#both #colonies #counties #each #forerunner

Buzz has reduced my range. Running safely with him means using fewer and shorter routes, with multiple laps per day or multiple returns there per week. Neither of us minds repeating ourselves. This is what runners do. ↗

— Joe Henderson

#day #fewer #him #laps #means

In fact, the bandits steal the drinks and assistance provided along the course. Worse, they cross the finish line and mess up the scoring of legitimate runners. ↗

— Joe Henderson

#assistance #bandits #course #cross #drinks

If you want to be a successful runner, you have to consider everything. It's no good just thinking about endurance and not to develop fine speed. ↗

— Arthur Lydiard

#consider #develop #endurance #everything #fine

Trust me, my runners aren't going to run one event while looking past it to the second event. When they get on the line for the 10K, that's a do-or-die situation for them. ↗

— Alberto Salazar

#get #going #line #looking #me

With my runners now, they get two month-long breaks during the year. ↗

— Alberto Salazar

#during #get #now #runners #two