Emil Zatopek Quotes

If you want to run, run a mile. If you want to experience a different life, run a marathon.

For me, becoming the best you can be in something that you love, like rowing, is incredibly challenging, and what you learn about yourself, the sense of satisfaction as you get older and move on, you'll never forget that. It's huge.

There's no glory in climbing a mountain if all you want to do is to get to the top. It's experiencing the climb itself - in all its moments of revelation, heartbreak, and fatigue - that has to be the goal.

Through climbing, I've learned to find goals and work toward them. That's just the way I love to live.

You have to wonder at times what you're doing out there. Over the years, I've given myself a thousand reasons to keep running, but it always comes back to where it started. It comes down to self-satisfaction and a sense of achievement.

It's the journey toward doing these harder climbs that really gives value to the whole activity of climbing.

There is nothing better than having a personal-best day, being in shape and pushing myself beyond my own limits.

Being a runner means you are now 'free' to win and lose and live life to its fullest.

Over the years, I've given myself a thousand reasons to keep running, but it always comes back to where it started. It comes down to self-satisfaction and a sense of achievement.

I think in life, if you continue to challenge yourself, you can pride yourself in what you continuously accomplish.

I'm excited by challenging myself physically and mentally every day.

The greatest stimulator of my running career was fear.

In some respects, progressing through life is like running a marathon.

I like a challenge. I get such a sense of satisfaction when I push myself beyond what I thought I could do.

I love to do something that's challenging to myself, and just to see the success, it makes me go harder and harder the next time.

Aiming for the marathon is a task of sorts which can include terrific highs and lows.

Criticism is easy; achievement is difficult.

Do your best to succeed and push the limits without violating them.

What is golden is miles under your belt, miles, miles, miles.

The challenge to be the best is what drives me and to just improve my body every day.

An easy, non-self-denying life will never be one of power.

If four things are followed - having a great aim, acquiring knowledge, hard work, and perseverance - then anything can be achieved.

I think when you begin to think of yourself as having achieved something, then there's nothing left for you to work towards. I want to believe that there is a mountain so high that I will spend my entire life striving to reach the top of it.

There are few things that you can't do as long as you are willing to apply yourself.

What you come to discover is, it isn't how you get there, it's that you get there. If that's what it took to get me where I'm at today, so be it.