Quotes by Emil Zatopek - Page 1

Men, today we die a little.
Emil Zatopek / Olympic Athlete
Today
Die
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A runner must run with dreams in his heart.
Emil Zatopek / Olympic Athlete
Dream
Running
Fitness
Heart
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My running was very simple; it was out of myself.
Emil Zatopek / Olympic Athlete
Running
Simple
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In my country, I am just a common man... a nobody.
Emil Zatopek / Olympic Athlete
Common
Common Man
Man I Am Country
Nobody
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Great is the victory, but the friendship of all is greater.
Emil Zatopek / Olympic Athlete
Friendship
Great
Greater
Victory
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A runner must run with dreams in his heart, not money in his pocket.
Emil Zatopek / Olympic Athlete
Fitness
Heart
Run
Pocket
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If I run 100 meters 30 times, that is 3 kilometers and no longer a sprint.
Emil Zatopek / Olympic Athlete
Sprint
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It's at the borders of pain and suffering that the men are separated from the boys.
Emil Zatopek / Olympic Athlete
Running
Men
Borders
Boys
Not Giving Up
Pain
Suffering
Boy
Separated
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If you want to run, run a mile. If you want to experience a different life, run a marathon.
Emil Zatopek / Olympic Athlete
Experience
Running
Different
Different Life
Marathon
Want
Run
Mile
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I'm not interested in how long I can hold out, but in how fast I can reach the finishing line.
Emil Zatopek / Olympic Athlete
Finishing
Not Interested
Fast
Reach
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Why should I practice running slow? I already know how to run slow. I want to learn to run fast.
Emil Zatopek / Olympic Athlete
Running
Practice
Run
Fast
Slow
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What has passed is already finished with. What I find more interesting is what is still to come.
Emil Zatopek / Olympic Athlete
Finished
Passed
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Sometimes I feel that old desire. Then my body tells me it is 50 years old. I take the easy way instead.
Emil Zatopek / Olympic Athlete
Desire
Easy
Easy Way
Me Body Feel
Instead
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An athlete cannot run with money in his pockets. He must run with hope in his heart and dreams in his head.
Emil Zatopek / Olympic Athlete
Dreams
Money
Athlete
Heart
Pockets
He
Cannot
Run
Must
His
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You must be fast enough - you must have endurance. So you run fast for speed and repeat it many times for endurance.
Emil Zatopek / Olympic Athlete
Endurance
Speed
Run
Fast
Repeat
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The athlete of today is not an athlete alone. He's the center of a team - doctors, scientists, coaches, agents and so on.
Emil Zatopek / Olympic Athlete
Agents
Athlete
Coaches
Doctors
Center
Scientists
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The childhood games ended for me when I was 14 and I finished school. I had to find a job, not an easy thing in those days.
Emil Zatopek / Olympic Athlete
Childhood
Finished
Games
Easy Thing
Childhood Me School
Ended
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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.
Emil Zatopek / Olympic Athlete
Experience
Essence
Marathon
Run
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I was unable to walk for a whole week after that, so much did the race take out of me. But it was the most pleasant exhaustion I have ever known.
Emil Zatopek / Olympic Athlete
Running
Marathon
Race
Week
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I will run with perfect style when they start judging races for their beauty, like figure-skating. For now, I just want to run as fast as possible.
Emil Zatopek / Olympic Athlete
Beauty
Judging
Perfect
Run
Possible
Fast
Races
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I had started as an average athlete - a normal boy. It took me three years to win a race. I was glad that I endured those three years - that I did not give up.
Emil Zatopek / Olympic Athlete
Athlete
Average
Glad
Normal
Endured
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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.
Emil Zatopek / Olympic Athlete
Ran
Fast
Practicing
Slow
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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.
Emil Zatopek / Olympic Athlete
Advantage
Conditions
Race
Relief
Training
Difference
Great Advantage
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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.
Emil Zatopek / Olympic Athlete
Inspirational
Motivational
Running
Sports
Long
Matter
Problem
Tired
Training
Years
Besides
Simply
Point
Raining
Stick
Throughout
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You can't climb up to the second floor without a ladder. When you set your aim too high and don't fulfill it, then your enthusiasm turns to bitterness. Try for a goal that's reasonable, and then gradually raise it.
Emil Zatopek / Olympic Athlete
Aim
Bitterness
Enthusiasm
Reasonable
Turns
Climb
Set
High
Floor
Fulfill
Gradually
Ladder
Raise
Second
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To boast of a performance which I cannot beat is merely stupid vanity. And if I can beat it that means there is nothing special about it. What has passed is already finished with. What I find more interesting is what is still to come.
Emil Zatopek / Olympic Athlete
Boast
Finished
Interesting
Special
Stupid
Beat
Performance
Merely
Passed
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I didn't know much. It wasn't possible to buy a book about Nurmi, but I found out that in order to be faster over 10,000m, he ran 5,000m many times in training. And to be better at 5,000m, he ran 1,500m many times. And to be better at 1,500m, he ran four times 400m in training.
Emil Zatopek / Olympic Athlete
Faster
Ran
Training
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