Eliud Kipchoge Quotes

Me, if I'm in a long-distance race, I have speed. In the sprint, I don't have so much speed.

The advantage doesn't come because you can run more than someone over 90 minutes. The advantage comes when, in the tenth minute, I'm sprinting back and making another guy chase me. By the end of the game, that guy's worn down, but I can still keep going at the same pace.

I'm going to focus on speed, doing little things like my turns and my starts - just speed.

I've always said the one change that would've been nice is if I'd been a bit faster - like fast enough to be able to run past people instead of just being overtaken all the time!

My weakness might be that the guys with the longer legs can hold their top speed a little bit longer and might not slow down as fast at the end of the race.

You can run a sprint or your can run a marathon, but you can't sprint a marathon.

Stamina is the force that drives the drumming; it's not really a sprint.

I could produce spurts of speed and after taking up athletics I found myself running quite quickly over 400m.

We are just not made up to be middle distance runners.

Being faster would probably make me better at football.

Life is often compared to a marathon, but I think it is more like being a sprinter; long stretches of hard work punctuated by brief moments in which we are given the opportunity to perform at our best.

In a marathon, if you run too fast, you get exhausted. If you run too slow, you never make it.

It's always been too slow for me. Playing. The pace of things. I'm a fast sprinter. The trouble was, after playing in the group for a few months, I couldn't reach that point.

I am a sprinter, and I love to go fast. It's very difficult for me to be patient and follow a race strategy or conserve energy.

So when you put the kick in and the other runners go past you, it's game over!

You could run harder, longer. If the workout was four 200s really, really fast, they wouldn't seem as hard as before. You could cut the rest down from five minutes to three. That's a big difference.

Rejoice not at thine enemy's fall - but don't rush to pick him up either

It's about not going to the well all the time. The body has limits. The mind has limits, too.

You must be fast enough - you must have endurance. So you run fast for speed and repeat it many times for endurance.

I think there's something to be said about pacing yourself.

If I am running 100 yards, I should be cut. Because then I am getting beat. I do not need to be doing that. I need to be running 20, 30, 40 yards as fast as I can over and over and over at optimal energy and efficiency and speed.

Speed is something I always worked on really hard.

Even during a sprint, I can occasionally still accelerate. I am so fit that I can accelerate during a acceleration, like making a new start.

My special thing is my speed. I'm fast.

There are a few moments in every game when I will have to sprint and use my explosiveness to win.