Frank Shorter Quotes

A good athlete always mentally replays a competition over and over, even in victory, to see what might be done to improve the performance the next time.
Frank Shorter

Time, Good, Done

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.
Frank Shorter

Yourself, Important, Give

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.
Frank Shorter

Experience, Important, Keep

Hills are speedwork in disguise.
Frank Shorter

Disguise, Hills

I started in law school in '71 and graduated in '74. So I was training for the Olympics, running or averaging around 20 miles a day and going to law school full time.
Frank Shorter

Time, School, Law

You don't run 26 miles at five minutes a mile on good looks and a secret recipe.
Frank Shorter

Good, Secret, Run

Because running fast is more fun than running slow.
Frank Shorter

Fun, Fast, Running

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

Older, Grow, Admire

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

Art, Lost, Friends

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.
Frank Shorter

Long, Before, Stuff

Again, racing for me was about energy management.
Frank Shorter

Energy, Again, Racing

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

Work, Again, Able

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

Time, Best, School

I also held several masters running titles.
Frank Shorter

Running, Masters, Titles

I plan to be running as long as I can and have no plans to stop.
Frank Shorter

Long, Plan, Stop

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

Light, Fact, Secret

I was actually going to law school in 1972.
Frank Shorter

School, Law, Actually

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

Health, Crisis, Words

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

Work, Running, Improve

My goal is to break three hours in a marathon.
Frank Shorter

Goal, Three, Break

Right now, after having had back surgery, I am finally back to running again.
Frank Shorter

After, Again, Running

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

Help, Others, Off

So, in a way I was hedging and saying that if the Olympic stuff doesn't work out at least I can be a lawyer.
Frank Shorter

Work, Saying, Stuff

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

Perfect, Weather, Gods

To put it another way, Michael Jordan was a gym rat.
Frank Shorter

Put, Another, Gym

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Nationality: American

Born: October 31, 1947

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