Amby Burfoot Quotes

In running, it doesn't matter how fast or slow you are relative to anyone else. You set your own pace and you measure your own progress. You can't lose this race because you're not running against anyone else. You're only running against yourself, and as long as you are running, you are winning.

Amby Burfoot

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• Middle school was probably my hardest time. I was trying to fit in for so long, until about junior year of high school when I realized that trying to fit into this one image of perfection was never going to make me happy.

  

  Maiara Walsh
  • Time
  • Long
  • Trying

• When you are dining with a demon, you got to have a long spoon.

  

  Navjot Singh Sidhu
  • Long
  • You
  • Demon

• Certainly by the time I was in seventh grade, I knew I had to have a long education if I wanted to become an astronomer, but I figured I'd try it, and if I didn't get far enough, I could always end up teaching in high school or math or physics.

  

  Nancy Roman
  • Up
  • Time
  • Long

• When people read a novel 600 pages long, six months pass, and all they will remember are five pages. They don't remember the text - instead, they remember the sensations the text gives them.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • People
  • Long
  • Remember

• Standing as I do, with my hand upon this staff, and under the folds of the American flag, I ask you to stand by me so long as I stand by it.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Long
  • American
  • Hand

• I'll take a look and get a second wind because so many little children are running around at my side.

  

  Oxana Chusovitina
  • Children
  • Running
  • Wind

• We've got a long career ahead of us and it's going to be great. Trust me.

  

  Dan Hawkins
  • Great
  • Long
  • Career

• When I want a long ball, I spin my hips faster.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Long
  • Want
  • Hips

• We haven't had the success we had hoped to achieve. Josh McDaniels is the head coach of the Broncos and you always strive for stability at that position. However, with five games left in the 2010 season, we will continue to monitor the progress of the team and evaluate what's in the best interest of this franchise.

  

  Pat Bowlen
  • Success
  • Team
  • Best

• When I was eight years old, I wrote a paragraph-long short story about a goat on my mother's hundred-pound, black-and-white-screen laptop. The story came about largely because I liked the way the word 'goat' looked on the page, but I decided then and there that I wanted to be a writer. That desire never changed.

  

  Tea Obreht
  • Long
  • Mother
  • Black

• Paint goes a long way in making old look like new.

  

  Candice Olson
  • Long
  • Look
  • Old

• Because our fight has been for such a long time we are isolated from the world, even after reconstruction we don't have much attention from people outside.

  

  Hanoi Hannah
  • People
  • Time
  • World

• Having long hair has allowed me to enter orthodox or religiously conservative situations with slightly more ease.

  

  Hailey Gates
  • Conservative
  • Situations
  • Religiously

• California is a very important state. As goes California, so goes the nation. We need to have strong leadership. Someone who can hit the ground running.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • Important
  • Strong
  • Running

• In Utah, one word sums up our business prowess: investment. Simply put, we know we can't have long-term economic growth and maintain Utah's enviable quality of life without making some critical investments.

  

  Gary Herbert
  • Life
  • Up
  • Long

• I still drive my 1977 Honda Accord. The paint is almost all worn off. It's still running.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Running
  • Paint
  • Drive

• I enjoy listening to contemporary rock on the college stations while I'm taking long walks, love gospel and soul music, am fascinated by hip-hop and rap as the new kind of urban 'beat' poetry and, come to think of it, find something interesting about just any kind of music.

  

  Oscar Hijuelos
  • Music
  • Long
  • Love

• We will not be beaten. But we may be shamed and embarrassed on a needlessly long road to victory.

  

  Ralph Peters
  • Long
  • May
  • Road

• I have watched people around members of the royal family for a long time now, and something very strange happens to them. They turn into sycophants.

  

  Penny Junor
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• Im Reiche der Zwecke hat alles entweder einen Preis oder eine Würde. Was einen Preis hat, an dessen Stelle kann auch etwas anderes als Äquivalent gesetzt werden; was dagegen über allen Preis erhaben ist, mithin kein Äquivalent verstattet, das hat eine Würde.

  

  Immanuel Kant

• The even larger difference between rich and poor makes the latter even worse off, and this violates the principle of mutual advantage.

  

  John Rawls

• Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East.

  

  Jack Schwartz
  • Democracy
  • Israel
  • Middle

• The week before the (US Open) I gave a few interviews for CNN, USA Network, New York Times, USA Today and Sports Illustrated which had been arranged beforehand. The reason for giving these interviews is not only because working with the media is just part of the job, it is much more my desire to contribute to the promotion of tennis in the U.S.

  

  Roger Federer
  • Today
  • Desire
  • Reason

• In running, it doesn't matter how fast or slow you are relative to anyone else. You set your own pace and you measure your own progress. You can't lose this race because you're not running against anyone else. You're only running against yourself, and as long as you are running, you are winning.

  

  Amby Burfoot
  • Long
  • Running
  • Winning