"September 24, 1988
Seoul, South Korea
My thoughts before a big race are usually pretty simple. I tell myself: Get out of the blocks, run your race, stay relaxed. If you run your race, you'll win. Just run your race. Channel your energy. Focus.
But this time it was different. It was hard to focus when I saw Ben Johnson ..."
-Carl Lewis
eurodonkey wrote:
Dean K :-(
Have some class. Either a real poet like Kipling...
"If you can fill the unforgiving minute, with sixty seconds worth of distance run...."
....or a real athlete like Bannister...
"We run, not because we think it is doing us good, but because we enjoy it and cannot help ourselves"
For minimalism, find something said by Bikila (barefoot Olympic Marathon) or Bruce Tulloh (barefoot across America in the sixties)
Bikila - "Thank goodness, now I can afford a pair of shoes for next time!"
And seriously, anybody? . . . "Rudyard Kipling was a 4:30 miler."
"You are not a warrior, you're a beginner". - Sagat