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Essentially, we distinguish ourselves from the rest. If you want to win something, run the 100 meters. If you want to experience something, run a marathon.

— Emil Zátopek

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It's at the borders of pain and suffering that the men are separated from the boys.

It is not gymnastics or ice skating, you know.

I was not talented enough to run and smile at the same time.

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