Top 8 Quotes & Sayings by Ron Clarke

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an Australian athlete Ron Clarke.

Last updated on December 23, 2024.

Ronald William Clarke, AO, MBE was an Australian athlete, writer, and the Mayor of the Gold Coast from 2004 to 2012. He was one of the best-known middle- and long-distance runners in the 1960s, notable for setting seventeen world records.

Australian - Athlete | February 21, 1937 - June 17, 2015

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No one knows the fear in a front runner's mind more than me. When you set off at a cracking pace for four or five laps and find that your main rivals are still breathing down your neck, that's when you start to panic.

Ron Clarke

It makes me sick to see a superior runner wait behind the field until 200 meters to go and then sprint away. That is immoral. It's both an insult to the other runners and a denigration of his own ability.

Ron Clarke

I got tired of seeing otherwise innocent young kids from all walks of life getting criminal records for, in effect, doing nothing more than millions of other people in society were doing with alcohol.

Ron Clarke

The hardest step for a runner to take is the first one out the door.

Ron Clarke

Worry about him? I never even heard of him.

Ron Clarke

In my case, I thoroughly enjoy running 100-odd miles a week. If I didn't I wouldn't do it. Who can define happiness? To some, happiness is a warm puppy or a glass of cold beer. To me, happiness is running in the hills with my mates around me.

Ron Clarke

There is not, and never was, a greater man than Emil Zatopek.

Ron Clarke

Love testing yourself more than fearing loosing

Ron Clarke

Top 8 Quotes & Sayings by Ron Clarke

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