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Frank Shorter

"I admire runners older than I - they are now my heroes. I want to be like them as I grow older."

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"I admire runners older than I - they are now my heroes. I want to be like them as I grow older."

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Amber Hurdle

"Heroes are higher than their vulnerability that is why they are heroes."

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"I want to be a hero, a small and good kind of hero, even though I know heroes have very short lives."

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"What has made this nation great? Not its heroes but its households."

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"We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves."

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"To be heroic is to be courageous enough to die for something, to be inspirational is to be crazy enough to live a little."

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Amber Hurdle

"The trouble with super heroes is what to do between phone booths."

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Amber Hurdle

"I'm not ashamed of heroic ambitions. If man and woman can only dance upon this earth for a few countable turns of the sun... let each of us be an Artemis, Odysseus, or Zeus... Aphrodite to the extent of the will of each one."

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Amber Hurdle

"Kaltain unleashed the last of her shadowfire, tipping her face to the ceiling, toward a sky she'd never see again. She took every wall and every column. As she brought it all crashing and crumbling around them, Kaltain smiled, and at last burned herself into ash on a phantom wind."

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Amber Hurdle

"Heroism doesn't pay very well. I try to be cold-blooded and money-oriented, but I keep screwing it up."

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"Hills are speedwork in disguise."
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"Experience has taught me how important it is to just keep going, focusing on running fast and relaxed. Eventually it passes and the flow returns. It's part of racing."
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"Running with others can help get you out when you might otherwise blow it off."
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"There's obviously some validity to it. But I think it also points out that you obviously can do it on your own because people have been doing it long before they had the stuff."
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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."
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"In other words we have marketed our way into this health crisis."
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"For the novice runner, I'd say to give yourself at least 2 months of consistently running several times a week at a conversational pace before deciding whether you want to stick with it. Consistency is the most important aspect of training at this point."
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"The weather is perfect. The gods are shining on us."
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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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"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."
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