A Quote by Mao Zedong

Long distance running is particularly good training in perseverance.

Mao Zedong

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Mao Zedong
Chinese - Leader
December 26, 1893 - September 9, 1976

In general, any form of exercise, if pursued continuously, will help train us in perseverance. Long-distance running is particularly good training in perseverance.

Mao Zedong

During long, slow distance training, you should think of yourself as a thoroughbred disguised as a plow horse. No need to give yourself away by running fast.

Marty Liquori

I guess I am basically most comfortable when I'm alone. As a kid, I was very much a loner. I love long distance running and long distance biking. A director once pointed out that those are all very isolated exercises you do for hours at a time.

Kevin Conroy

We do a lot of lifting, and mix it up with upper body and lower body. A lot of circuit training for cardio. I hate just doing long distance running, so I do 5 or 6 different exercises for 20 to 30 seconds then move to the next one.

Madison Keys

When I was in school, we would always have running races. I was good at it. Always sprinting. I can run long distance, too.

Sadio Mane

One training session won't change anything, but 10 will. Perseverance and straight up training.

Mauricio Rua

Of course, long-distance running has to do with the fact that we're hunters.

Freeman Dyson

I love sprinting, but I hate long-distance running. Isn't that funny?

Dylan O'Brien

We have these amazing gifts of music and mathematics and painting and Olympic running. I mean, we're the animal that is best of all the animals at long-distance running. Why? It is quite amazing. Superfluous gifts you don't really need to survive.

Freeman Dyson

Running long offers a dress rehearsal. Running long teaches the stress of lifting feet 5,000 times per hour. Running long builds confidence.

Hal Higdon

Long distance running is 90% mental and the other half is physical.

Rich Davis

In long-distance running the only opponent you have to beat is yourself, the way you used to be.

Haruki Murakami

And if any of you want some tips on running, don't be in a hurry, and never let any of the other runners know you are in a hurry even if you are. You can always overtake on long-distance running without letting others smell the hurry in you.

Colin S. Smith

I had to have running training because I'm not a very good runner. I run weird. ... The hardest stunt is probably basic running. And trying not to hit myself in the face with my bow, are my two greatest challenges.