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"There is a great advantage in training under unfavorable conditions. It is better to train under bad conditions, for the difference is then a tremendous relief in a race."
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"The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious."

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"Be different to make a difference."

"That was always the difference between Muhammad Ali and the rest of us. He came, he saw, and if he didn't entirely conquer - he came as close as anybody we are likely to see in the lifetime of this doomed generation."

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"What has passed is already finished with. What I find more interesting is what is still to come."

"Why should I practice running slow? I already know how to run slow. I want to learn to run fast."

"If one can stick to the training throughout the many long years, then will power is no longer a problem. It's raining? That doesn't matter. I am tired? That's besides the point. It's simply that I just have to."

"The athlete of today is not an athlete alone. He's the center of a team - doctors, scientists, coaches, agents and so on."

"When I was young, I was too slow. I thought I must learn to run fast by practicing to run fast, so I ran 100 meters fast 20 times. Then I came back, slow, slow, slow."

"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."
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