Guy Kawasaki Quotes

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

Often I feel like I can run forever. If someone told me I had to run for 10 hours, I probably could.

I definitely think that theatre is something I'll keep coming back to in my career for as long as I can. I also think theatre's something you have to be very fit to do. I am fairly fit, but I don't think I could do it all the time.

I do a lot of biking. I need that mileage and the long-distance stuff because tennis demands it. My fitness trainer is always trying to convince me to do an Ironman. I can probably run the marathon, I can make the 112 miles on the bike, but I will never swim for 2.4 miles. I will die after 100 meters.

Humans are built for endurance, not speed. We're awful sprinters compared to every other animal. We try to run our races as if they were speed races, but they are not. They're endurance races. Even a marathon, the way it's run now, it's not an endurance contest.

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

Yes, my dad's a marathoner. He used to do sprint distances and then started marathoning. My mom is an endurance animal. She does three-day events like the Susan G. Komen three-day walk.

I am kind of like a diesel. It is the cyclist in me.

You lose the speed before the stamina.

People always ask me how long somebody can last as long as I've been lasting and continue to keep doing it, so I figured that people didn't really know how to do that.

In 1990 we ran across Europe through 13 countries and covering 7,130 miles.

Twenty-six miles is now my daily minimum.

I run at least five miles a day, just long distance.

I can't understand how some guys get tired after one round. If you can't go the distance, why are you even in the fight?

I think I could make a 1,000 mile race. But I would definitely have to take pre-race precautions to make sure I could make it that far.

I can freestyle for a while, but I'm not an Olympic swimmer who can go two or three miles.

The best mark of a player is to beat him over a long distance.

Once in a while you can run very fast, but you cannot always go to the maximum.

Fitness has always been one of my strengths. I can do all the long-distance runs. When I was at school and we entered the competitions, I used to do the 100m, 200m, and the 1500m as well, so it's never just been a pace thing.

The first 90 percent of a revolution is creating the product or service; the second 90 percent is evangelizing it. At the beginning of a revolution, you need evangelists, not sales, because leverage spreads news.

My strength is my distance. I can swim two-and-a-half soccer fields on one breath.

The sustainability revolution will, hopefully, be the third major social and economic turning point in human history, following the Neolithic Revolution - moving from hunter-gathering to farming - and the Industrial Revolution

There is no habit you will value so much as that of walking far without fatigue.

They say the breaks even up in the long run, and the trick is to be a long-distance runner.

Creating something new is easy, creating something that lasts is the challenge.