Gerry Lindgren Quotes

Kids are afraid that if they race too fast they will get tired. Way too much fear and way too little COURAGE.

Set a new standard. Change reality. Break ground to something new and different. That achievement will live forever just because you WERE somebody special!

My key to victory was that I always went out way too fast. Too fast erases every other race strategy out there. Everyone is hanging on for dear life or they give up.

Everyone dies whether one is good in their lifetime or evil in their lifetime. So virtue has no payback. Life is meaningless. When you die, you die!

COURAGE is not a quality you teach. Courage is the by-product of self-discipline. It is an ATTITUDE.

I never did cross training or lifted weights or put anything between myself and my passion for running.

If you KNOW dehydration is a problem in long runs it becomes a problem in long runs.

The FEAR of becoming dehydrated causes dehydration. As with so many things in our life, it is because we KNOW it is a problem that it is a problem.

Set a master goal for your running and for your life...

I should be doing that too. I should be out there running and racing. I should be taking care of my body.

Based on my experience; I would develop fast speed before anything else. Get your young runners so they can run and teach them speed.

Setting goals that have already been achieved is a cop-out.

There is NOTHING you can do with your running time that is better for you than running. Any other activity only pulls you down and erases passion.

We didn't keep track of how many miles we ran back then. We just ran. If you LOVE to run with the kind of passion I have for running, you will understand this. Running was my mode of transportation.

Humans are a TOUGH animal! We can do anything.

The best runners every year are those who race out way too fast.

I would instill in my team an attitude of role modeling. We run to teach other people the value of physical activity. In all things, be humble and appreciative; hurt no one; help anyone you can.

Goals should be impossible! You should tread FEARLESSLY where the brave dare not go.

The only thing that lives beyond the grave is the wake you have created by the way you have lived your life; the goals you have set; the distance away from the normal you dared to tread.

This life is made to change all reality. We are here for the benefit, happiness, and welfare of a new reality; a new direction.

The 3-minute mile goal is to teach runners that the impossible is where goals should be set.

I had on my team a girl who at age twelve just missed the world mile record for her age group. But at 20 she just couldn't run.

I thought perhaps people with injuries could be subject to a starters gun to cure them.

If you look at your life and compare your life to that of an evil person, you will find that in most regards both lives are the same. You don't live a longer life or live forever by being virtuous.

News people were holding me up as a symbol of defiance to the boycott and I couldn't even run.

Kids as young as twelve CAN run 90 minutes, and they can train hard to run fast, BUT they lose something in training hard at that early age.