Emil Zatopek Quotes
"Why should I practice running slow? I already know how to run slow. I want to learn to run fast."
- Emil Zatopek
(Related: Practice, Running, Want)
"When I was young, I was too slow. I thought I must learn to run fast by practicing to run fast, so I ran 100 meters fast 20 times. Then I came back, slow, slow, slow."
- Emil Zatopek
(Related: Thought)
"What has passed is already finished with. What I find more interesting is what is still to come."
- Emil Zatopek
"The athlete of today is not an athlete alone. He's the center of a team - doctors, scientists, coaches, agents and so on."
- Emil Zatopek
(Related: Coaches, Doctors, Scientists, Today)
"To boast of a performance which I cannot beat is merely stupid vanity. And if I can beat it that means there is nothing special about it. What has passed is already finished with. What I find more interesting is what is still to come."
- Emil Zatopek
(Related: Performance, Nothing, Vanity)
"If you want to run, run a mile. If you want to experience a different life, run a marathon."
- Emil Zatopek
(Related: Experience, Life, Marathon, Want)
"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
(Related: Experience, Men, Marathon, Want)
"Great is the victory, but the friendship of all is greater."
- Emil Zatopek
(Related: Friendship, Victory)
"My running was very simple; it was out of myself."
- Emil Zatopek
(Related: Running)
"There is a great advantage in training under unfavorable conditions. It is better to train under bad conditions, for the difference is then a tremendous relief in a race."
- Emil Zatopek
(Related: Difference, Race, Training)
"It's at the borders of pain and suffering that the men are separated from the boys."
- Emil Zatopek
(Related: Men, Boys, Pain, Suffering)
"If one can stick to the training throughout the many long years, then will power is no longer a problem. It's raining? That doesn't matter. I am tired? That's besides the point. It's simply that I just have to."
- Emil Zatopek
(Related: Power, Training, Will, Years)
"An athlete cannot run with money in his pockets. He must run with hope in his heart and dreams in his head."
- Emil Zatopek
(Related: Dreams, Money, Heart, Hope)
"A runner must run with dreams in his heart, not money in his pocket."
- Emil Zatopek
(Related: Dreams, Money, Heart)
"Men, today we die a little."
- Emil Zatopek
(Related: Men, Today)