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I don't have a sprinter's body. -- Allyson Felix
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I am a sprinter, and I love to go fast. It's very difficult for me to be patient and follow a race strategy or conserve energy. -- Allyson Felix
I'm Jamaican, man. I'm Jamaican first. You gotta understand that's where I'm from. That's home. That you can never take away from me. I'm a Jamaican-born Canadian sprinter. -- Donovan Bailey
Life is often compared to a marathon, but I think it is more like being a sprinter; long stretches of hard work punctuated by brief moments in which we are given the opportunity to perform at our best. -- Michael Johnson
As a little kid, not only is my dad Jo-Jo White, but M. L. Carr is involved in the family, Red Auerbach is my godfather, and my stepmother was an Olympic-caliber sprinter. Athletes were all around. I happened to be a natural athlete. If I wasn't, it might have been hell. But I never got any pressure from my mom and dad to be an athlete. -- Brian J. White
I always wanted to be a sprinter. -- Michael Johnson
As a kid, I was a pretty good little sprinter. -- Mary Lou Retton
I like to think of myself as a pretty good athlete, I don't think I'm a great sprinter, but 200, 400, maybe 800. I won't say excel in them, but I'd do pretty good. -- Grant Hill
A couple of years ago, I had my DNA sequencing done, and it is all anonymous. When the results came back, my musculature type said, 'most likely to be a sprinter.' -- Aimee Mullins
It's always been too slow for me. Playing. The pace of things. I'm a fast sprinter. The trouble was, after playing in the group for a few months, I couldn't reach that point. -- Syd Barrett
When I hit New York in 1972, I thought I was a sprinter. I thought that I would star in a Broadway show and do a movie and win an Oscar by the time I was 25. It turned out that I'm a long distance runner. -- Beth Grant
We crave instant success these days. If you are a really good sprinter and long jumper, you don't want to spend two or three years on a whole new set of events. You're used to doing well and it's difficult to give that up. -- Daley Thompson
The poster boy for our superabled future is Oscar Pistorius, an increasingly famous South African sprinter who happens to have had both of his legs amputated below the knee. Using upside down question mark-shaped carbon fiber sprinting prosthetics, called Cheetah blades, Mr. Pistorius can challenge the fastest sprinters in the world. -- Daniel H. Wilson
I think animation is like running a marathon, and making a movie is like a 100 meter sprint. The question is: are you a marathon man or are you a sprinter? I realized that I was more of a sprinter than a marathon man. With a long, long project, I get bored easily. -- Marjane Satrapi
My goal is to get another 30 years out of this business. So I need to figure out the fuel to do that. And so far, I think it's respect and quality and company, not celebrity or box office or stardom. It's not a sprinter's approach. It's more like a long-distance thing. You can stick around a lot longer if you kind of slow-play it. -- Jason Bateman
Propaganda is a sprinter, but truth is a long-distance runner. -- Ernest Partridge
I'm not much of a distance runner, more of a sprinter. -- Carrie Jones
If you're a cannibal, an Olympic sprinter would be considered fast food. -- Jarod Kintz
He took it out like a sprinter, and brought it home like a distance swimmer. -- Jennifer Lane
Love affairs are for emotional sprinters; the pleasures of love are for the emotional marathoners. -- Robertson Davies
I'm a decent sprinter and I can gun a motorcycle from zero to suicidal in less than ten seconds. -- Mira Grant
You find sprinters testing other sprinters' mental capability. But these are my good friends on the track. I don't think we need to do that. -- Donovan Bailey
I am basically turning football players into sprinters for a while. When we first talked about it, I didn't know how my expertise could be used. -- Ato Boldon
Before me, sprinters retired at 23 or 24. I run because I still like it, I can make a living, and I feel I was born to do it. And because people tell me I can't do it. -- Evelyn Ashford
I have to keep going, as there are always people on my track. I have to publish my present work as rapidly as possible in order to keep in the race. The best sprinters in this road of investigation are Becquerel and the Curies... -- Ernest Rutherford
Humans are built for endurance, not speed. We're awful sprinters compared to every other animal. We try to run our races as if they were speed races, but they are not. They're endurance races. Even a marathon, the way it's run now, it's not an endurance contest. -- Christopher McDougall
For some of us love comes into the room, kicks her shoes off, ?nds the most comfortable sofa, and lies down, rests, has no intention of going anywhere. For others love walks in smoking a cigarette, checking her watch every two seconds, jittery, with one hand on the doorknob, heart rate up, always in sprinter's position, ready to run. -- Eric Jerome Dickey
He imagined himself as a sprinter now, felt his arms and legs pumping, thought of the old Cuban sprinter his father used to tell him about.Juan something?No, no.Juantarena.Alberto Juantarena.His father said it was like watching a god run. And his father, the old fool, wasn't even Cuban, he was Dominican. The only Dominican who wanted to talk about track stars instead of baseball. -- Mike Lupica
You learn to run like a sprinter, you'll be a great distance runner -- Alberto Salazar
Carl Lewis wasn't a great sprinter. He could only run fast for like 9 seconds. -- Serge Ibaka
To a sprinter, the hundred-yard dash is over in three seconds, not nine or ten. -- Jesse Owens
Double gold means I'm king of the sprints. It shows I'm the best sprinter around. -- Justin Gatlin
I realized that I was more of a sprinter than a marathon man. With a long, long project, I get bored easily. -- Marjane Satrapi
Im Jamaican, man. Im Jamaican first. You gotta understand thats where Im from. Thats home. That you can never take away from me. Im a Jamaican-born Canadian sprinter. -- Donovan Bailey
How you start is important, but it is how you finish that counts. In the race for success, speed is less important than stamina. The sticker outlasts the sprinter. -- B. C. Forbes
No one is born a sprinter. We all learn to push ourselves up from the floor and then balance before taking that first, wobbly step. It is an individual choice where to go from there. -- Richelle E. Goodrich

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