On Running

Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up. It knows it must outrun the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning in Africa, a lion wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the slowest gazelle, or it will starve. It doesn’t matter whether you are a lion or a gazelle—when the sun comes up, you’d better be running.”

— Roger Bannister
First man in history to run a
mile in less than four minutes
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Posted on 08 July 2009

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  1. janetober says:

    Like this also!

  2. A very nice quote from a man with the credentials to make it even more powerful, eh?


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