A Quote by Joan Rivers
A Mafia guy in Vegas gave me this advice: "Run your own race, put on your blinders."
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Your goal is simple: Finish. Experience your first race, don't race it. Your first race should be slightly longer or slightly faster than your normal run. Run your first race. Later you can race. You will be a hero just for finishing, so don't put pressure on yourself by announcing a time goal. Look at it this way: The slower you run the distance, the easier it will be to show off by improving your time the next race!
God gave you your own race to run, stop comparing yourself to other people. They have their race and you have yours. Run hard and don't quit.
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My mother is home. Your mother is your home. Everybody is a momma's boy or a momma's girl. That's where we came from, from a woman's womb. She always gave me good advice because mothers know best at times. She gives me advice and I take it, run with it and share that with somebody else.
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Real success is being totally indulgent about your own trip. You put your blinders on about the garbage and go full speed ahead.
Put blinders on to those things that conspire to hold you back, especially the ones in your own head.
When you get made into the Mafia, they cut, prick your finger. And they take the blood and put it on the picture of a saint. Then they burn it. That's the Mafia induction ceremony.
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