Sprinter Quotes: best 19 famous quotes about Sprinter

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1. "I don't have a sprinter's body."
Author: Allyson Felix

2. "I am a sprinter, and I love to go fast. It's very difficult for me to be patient and follow a race strategy or conserve energy."
Author: Allyson Felix

3. "I am basically turning football players into sprinters for a while. When we first talked about it, I didn't know how my expertise could be used."
Author: Ato Boldon

4. "I have to keep going, as there are always people on my track. I have to publish my present work as rapidly as possible in order to keep in the race. The best sprinters in this road of investigation are Becquerel and the Curies..."
Author: Becquerel

5. "As a little kid, not only is my dad Jo-Jo White, but M. L. Carr is involved in the family, Red Auerbach is my godfather, and my stepmother was an Olympic-caliber sprinter. Athletes were all around. I happened to be a natural athlete. If I wasn't, it might have been hell. But I never got any pressure from my mom and dad to be an athlete."
Author: Brian J. White

6. "I'm not much of a distance runner, more of a sprinter."
Author: Carrie Jones

7. "Humans are built for endurance, not speed. We're awful sprinters compared to every other animal. We try to run our races as if they were speed races, but they are not. They're endurance races. Even a marathon, the way it's run now, it's not an endurance contest."
Author: Christopher McDougall

8. "You need to become more than one type of athlete. You have to be a sprinter, a weight man and a distance guy all in one."
Author: Dan O'Brien

9. "You find sprinters testing other sprinters' mental capability. But these are my good friends on the track. I don't think we need to do that."
Author: Donovan Bailey

10. "I'm Jamaican, man. I'm Jamaican first. You gotta understand that's where I'm from. That's home. That you can never take away from me. I'm a Jamaican-born Canadian sprinter."
Author: Donovan Bailey

11. "For some of us love comes into the room, kicks her shoes off, ?nds the most comfortable sofa, and lies down, rests, has no intention of going anywhere. For others love walks in smoking a cigarette, checking her watch every two seconds, jittery, with one hand on the doorknob, heart rate up, always in sprinter's position, ready to run."
Author: Eric Jerome Dickey

12. "Propaganda is a sprinter, but truth is a long-distance runner."
Author: Ernest Partridge

13. "Before me, sprinters retired at 23 or 24. I run because I still like it, I can make a living, and I feel I was born to do it. And because people tell me I can't do it."
Author: Evelyn Ashford

14. "If you're a cannibal, an Olympic sprinter would be considered fast food."
Author: Jarod Kintz

15. "He took it out like a sprinter, and brought it home like a distance swimmer."
Author: Jennifer Lane

16. "Life is often compared to a marathon, but I think it is more like being a sprinter; long stretches of hard work punctuated by brief moments in which we are given the opportunity to perform at our best."
Author: Michael Johnson

17. "He imagined himself as a sprinter now, felt his arms and legs pumping, thought of the old Cuban sprinter his father used to tell him about.Juan something?No, no.Juantarena.Alberto Juantarena.His father said it was like watching a god run. And his father, the old fool, wasn't even Cuban, he was Dominican. The only Dominican who wanted to talk about track stars instead of baseball."
Author: Mike Lupica

18. "I'm a decent sprinter and I can gun a motorcycle from zero to suicidal in less than ten seconds."
Author: Mira Grant

19. "Love affairs are for emotional sprinters; the pleasures of love are for the emotional marathoners."
Author: Robertson Davies