Frank Shorter Quotes

• Intervals and other types of speed work are essential to improve running speed.

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• It is just called Continuing Legal Education. You can go to lectures, you can even listen to tapes on airplanes – they want you to stay current. So you do have to stay current to maintain your license even if you are not practicing.

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• It is not the time spent with the child at their activity that is going to produce the highest level athlete. It is in supporting the child in an organized activity – and Bill alluded to this – so the child can find what they truly like to do and let them go.

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• My goal is to break three hours in a marathon.

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• Right now, after having had back surgery, I am finally back to running again.

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• Running with others can help get you out when you might otherwise blow it off.

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• So, in a way I was hedging and saying that if the Olympic stuff doesn’t work out at least I can be a lawyer.

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• The irony of that is, what makes it kind of ironic, is when you do become successful as a professional athlete in particular, a lot of the young children who are emulating these stars do have a different perspective.

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• The potential elite runner must realize that hard means hard, easy means easy and they must patiently seek out what combinations work for them. They have to learn to be persistent and patient with their training and racing.

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• The marathon is all about energy management. I had planned to run it like a track race with strategic surges to blow up my competitors by putting them into oxygen debt, so that is the way I prepared.

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• To put it another way, Michael Jordan was a gym rat.

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• The weather is perfect. The gods are shining on us.

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• When I am totally race fit, I don’t worry about breathing or technique – they take care of themselves.

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• What you did was live on very little. I think all of us that were competing – Bill is the same way – you don’t need much to live.

  Frank Shorter

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• When you are caring about your children perhaps you always have to remember at what point you can become over involved because of something you need rather than something the child needs.

   

  Frank Shorter

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• Yes, winning the gold medal was undoubtedly the biggest day of my career – mostly because I won the way I had prepared to run it. It was a totally satisfying experience.

  Frank Shorter

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Frank Shorter (36)

Birth:	31st October, 1947
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Runner

About

Frank Charles Shorter was born in Munich, Germany. He is an American former long-distance runner who won the gold medal in the marathon at the 1972 Summer Olympics and the silver medal at the 1976 Summer Olympics. He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree from Yale University in 1969. He earned a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Florida College of Law in 1974.

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