Emil Zatopek Quotes

Emil Zatopek (15)

Birth:	19th September, 1922
Death:	22nd November, 2000
Nationality:	Czech
Profession:	Runner

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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

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  Tags in Performance, Self, Interesting

• An athlete cannot run with money in his pockets. He must run with hope in his heart and dreams in his head.

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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.

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  Tags in Marathon

• The athlete of today is not an athlete alone. He’s the center of a team – doctors, scientists, coaches, agents and so on.

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• My running was very simple; it was out of myself.

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  Tags in Myself, Running

• If you want to run, run a mile. If you want to experience a different life, run a marathon.

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  Topics in Experience, Life

  Tags in Marathon

• 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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  Tags in Training, Problem

• Great is the victory, but the friendship of all is greater.

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• Men, today we die a little.

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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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  Tags in Great, Advantage, Training

• 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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  Tags in Self, Thought, Practicing

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

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

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  Tags in Self, Learn, Fast

• 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.

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  Topics in Goal

  Tags in Enthusiasm, Bitterness

• A runner must run with dreams in his heart, not money in his pocket.

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  Tags in Runner, Must