Czechoslovakian - Athlete | September 19, 1922 - November 22, 2000
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
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A runner must run with dreams in his heart, not money in his pocket.
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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.
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It's at the borders of pain and suffering that the men are separated from the boys.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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If I run 100 meters 30 times, that is 3 kilometers and no longer a sprint.
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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.
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