Frank Shorter Quotes

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Frank Shorter

Profession : Athlete

Birth : October 31, 1947

The weather is perfect. The gods are shining on us.

Frank Shorter

I think he had a wake-up call. It's a different kind of race, and I think maybe he didn't take it quite as seriously as he might have, but you can bet he learned a lot of lessons.

Frank Shorter

Hills are speedwork in disguise.

Frank Shorter

Yes, winning the gold medal was undoubtedly the biggest day of my career - mostly because I won the way I had prepared to run it. It was a totally satisfying experience.

Frank Shorter

When I am totally race fit, I don't worry about breathing or technique - they take care of themselves.

Frank Shorter

When you are caring about your children perhaps you always have to remember at what point you can become over involved because of something you need rather than something the child needs.

Frank Shorter

In other words we have marketed our way into this health crisis.

Frank Shorter

It is just called Continuing Legal Education. You can go to lectures, you can even listen to tapes on airplanes - they want you to stay current. So you do have to stay current to maintain your license even if you are not practicing.

Frank Shorter

There's obviously some validity to it. But I think it also points out that you obviously can do it on your own because people have been doing it long before they had the stuff.

Frank Shorter

I was actually going to law school in 1972.

Frank Shorter

It is not the time spent with the child at their activity that is going to produce the highest level athlete. It is in supporting the child in an organized activity - and Bill alluded to this - so the child can find what they truly like to do and let them go.

Frank Shorter

So, in a way I was hedging and saying that if the Olympic stuff doesn't work out at least I can be a lawyer.

Frank Shorter

Running with others can help get you out when you might otherwise blow it off.

Frank Shorter

The irony of that is, what makes it kind of ironic, is when you do become successful as a professional athlete in particular, a lot of the young children who are emulating these stars do have a different perspective.

Frank Shorter

Intervals and other types of speed work are essential to improve running speed.

Frank Shorter

Because running fast is more fun than running slow.

Frank Shorter

To put it another way, Michael Jordan was a gym rat.

Frank Shorter

The marathon is all about energy management. I had planned to run it like a track race with strategic surges to blow up my competitors by putting them into oxygen debt, so that is the way I prepared.

Frank Shorter

I think it is that parents just don't kick their kids out the door as much as they used to. I think the demise of sandlot sports has had a lot to do with it.

Frank Shorter

Really, I think that going out and playing with your friends is kind of becoming a lost art, with the kids in the neighborhood.

Frank Shorter