#speed

If you want to be a successful runner, you have to consider everything. It's no good just thinking about endurance and not to develop fine speed. ↗

— Arthur Lydiard

#consider #develop #endurance #everything #fine

I have run two Olympic 'A' standard times over the past 12 months and with the time I ran at the African Championships last week I know my speed and fitness are constantly improving so that I will peak in time for the Olympics. ↗

— Oscar Pistorius

#championships #constantly #fitness #i #improving

Does speed dating necessarily end up in a quickie divorce....? ↗

— Josh Stern

#divorce-humor #speed #speed-dating-quickie #dating

The body is sort of a pain. It has to go to the bathroom. It has to be comfortable. But the spirit is indestructible. It can move at the speed of light. ↗

— Robert Ballard

#body #comfortable #go #indestructible #light

The mare set off for home with the speed of a swallow, and going as smoothly and silently. I never had dreamed of such a motion, fluent and graceful, and ambient, soft as the breeze flitting over the flowers, but swift as the summer lightening. ↗

— Richard Blackmore

#breeze #dreamed #flitting #flowers #fluent

Thank you so much for supporting me from the day I stepped foot into the music industry. It really means something to me to have Maya Angelou speak on my behalf. It also means a lot to have Oprah on my speed dial! ↗

— Mary J. Blige

#angelou #behalf #day #dial #foot

But any perception of this application being speeded up requires me to take responsibility. ↗

— David Blunkett

#application #being #me #perception #requires

You lose the speed before the stamina. ↗

— Haile Gebrselassie

#lose #speed #stamina #you

We are also ignoring and underfunding high speed rail which is one of the best ways to move citizens and improve congestion on our highways. ↗

— Corrine Brown

#best #citizens #congestion #high #highways

I sum up the prospects for 1967 in three short sentences. We are back on course. The ship is picking up speed. The economy is moving. Every seaman knows the command at such a moment: 'steady as she goes'. ↗

— James Callaghan

#command #course #economy #every #goes