Frank Shorter Quotes

Running with others can help get you out when you might otherwise blow it off.

Three half-mile repeats on the track at 5-K race pace with a short recovery jog in between shouldn't scare anyone away-and it will improve your speed.

My goal has always been to slow down as slowly as possible. It's as simple as that.

Yes, winning the gold medal was undoubtedly the biggest day of my career - mostly because I won the way I had prepared to run it. It was a totally satisfying experience.

It is not the time spent with the child at their activity that is going to produce the highest level athlete. It is in supporting the child in an organized activity - and Bill alluded to this - so the child can find what they truly like to do and let them go.

Experience has taught me how important it is to just keep going, focusing on running fast and relaxed. Eventually it passes and the flow returns. It's part of racing.

You have to forget your last marathon before you try another. Your mind can't know what's coming.

I think the secret of my light, quick, foot strike is related to the fact that I have fragile feet.

You train best where you are the happiest.

The potential elite runner must realize that hard means hard, easy means easy and they must patiently seek out what combinations work for them. They have to learn to be persistent and patient with their training and racing.

Intervals and other types of speed work are essential to improve running speed.

When you are caring about your children perhaps you always have to remember at what point you can become over involved because of something you need rather than something the child needs.

My goal is to break three hours in a marathon.

I was actually going to law school in 1972.

There's obviously some validity to it. But I think it also points out that you obviously can do it on your own because people have been doing it long before they had the stuff.

Really, I think that going out and playing with your friends is kind of becoming a lost art, with the kids in the neighborhood.

When I am totally race fit, I don't worry about breathing or technique - they take care of themselves.

Running a marathon is just like reading a good book. After a while you're just not conscious of the physical act of reading.

Why couldn't Pheidippides have died at 20 miles?

You can actually suffer a little bit more going slowly than when you're going really fast. A faster marathon might even be easier than a slow one, in terms of what it takes out of you mentally.

It is just called Continuing Legal Education. You can go to lectures, you can even listen to tapes on airplanes - they want you to stay current. So you do have to stay current to maintain your license even if you are not practicing.

The weather is perfect. The gods are shining on us.

For the novice runner, I'd say to give yourself at least 2 months of consistently running several times a week at a conversational pace before deciding whether you want to stick with it. Consistency is the most important aspect of training at this point.

I admire runners older than I - they are now my heroes. I want to be like them as I grow older.

When you first run up First Avenue in New York, if you don't get goose bumps, theres something wrong with you.

You have to know your body. It's part of the beauty of the training process, and once you've determined how much your body and mind can take, you can then begin to reach your potential.

I think it is that parents just don't kick their kids out the door as much as they used to. I think the demise of sandlot sports has had a lot to do with it.

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

As I've been able to once again gain the benefits of speed work, I'm enjoying my running more and more.

In other words we have marketed our way into this health crisis.