Frank Shorter Quotes

I've been a runner a long time. When I first got into it, I started doing small triathlons in Chicago, and I just did it to get in shape. When I got out of college, I put on a few pounds like everybody does. I did it when I was in my early 20s, but I never really did any long runs.

To graduate in four years as a student-athlete with no summer school is quite a feat.

If he's having a good day and running the right race, nobody can beat Frank Shorter at 10,000 meters... nobody except me.

Training for the Olympics was a lifelong endeavor and took many years.

At my father's request I took up the study of law at the University of Zurich In 1863.

To be the best, you need to spend hours and hours and hours running, hitting the speed bag, lifting weights and focusing on training.

I have an affinity for the law. I like looking at the small type on contracts, and if I could have afforded law school, I probably would have gone.

When you're a chef, you graze. You never get a chance to sit down and eat. They don't actually sit down and eat before you cook. So when I finish work, the first thing I'll do, and especially when I'm in New York, I'll go for a run. And I'll run 10 or 15k on my - and I run to gain my appetite.

You don't run 26 miles at five minutes a mile on good looks and a secret recipe.

Being in school is the best place to be if you are an athlete because you can structure your own time.

I was actually going to law school in 1972.

I always say, and I mean it, that the great break of my literary career was when I went to law school.

I used to think that it didn't make any difference how far you ran if you had a good, strong musculoskeletal system and no underlying cardiovascular problems.

I am much more wired to be an athlete than anything else. I understand the 'hard work = payoff' equation in sports. I run marathons and I box. And that's my Puerto Rican flag hanging in Freddie Roach's Wild Card Boxing gym. I gave it to him. My last N.Y.C. marathon time I ran in three hours flat.

The great break of my literary career was going to law school.

My training has been going really well these past few days and my goal is to keep it up for the next few weeks and hopefully earn a spot on the U.S. Olympic team.

I still run every other day. Longer at weekends. I probably do 35 miles a week.

I've done a few marathons. I've done a 50-mile one and even a 100-mile one.

It's like running a marathon race. We train all hours of the day. When you are taking a bath, you are thinking of the flight.

Many run primarily for the exercise, but others run to condition themselves for well-publicized races of various distances.

If I run 100 meters 30 times, that is 3 kilometers and no longer a sprint.

I put my body through hell. I run 120 miles a week, week in, week out.

I might take a little time off from school to train. I'd be a totally different animal if I trained full time.

I was a runner in Delhi's Army Public School. I started running when I was in class four and became the fastest sprinter in school and zone competitions by the time I reached class eight.

Before I ever got into coaching, I got my law degree at Pepperdine.