Emil Zatopek Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“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.”

“Men, today we die a little.”

“My running was very simple; it was out of myself.”

“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.”

“The athlete of today is not an athlete alone. He's the center of a team - doctors, scientists, coaches, agents and so on.”

“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.”