If one can stick to the training throughout the many long years, then will power is no longer a problem. Its raining? That doesnt matter. I am tired? Thats besides the point. Its simply that I just have to. – Emil Zatopek
We are different, in essence, from other men. If you want to win something, run 100 meters. If you want to experience something, run a marathon. – Emil Zatopek
An athlete cannot run with money in his pockets. He must run with hope in his heart and dreams in his head. – Emil Zatopek
A runner must run with dreams in his heart, not money in his pocket. – Emil Zatopek
Bill Clinton sitting on Air Force One getting his hair cut while people around the country cooled their heels and waited for him, became a metaphor for a populist president who had gotten drunk with the perks of his own power and was sort of, you know, not sensitive to what people wanted. – Dee Dee Myers