Sprinting Quotes

Psychological edge is massive in sprinting.

Sprinting is my stress relief, something to do to relax. I don’t know what I would do without it.

Usually, sprinting is my main source of energy and recovery time because that’s how I move.

My high-school coach Tony Reginelli was kind of famous for ‘Reggie-isms,’ kind of like ‘Yogi-isms.’ He always said if you want to be a good quarterback, when sprinting left you want to be amphibious and throw left-handed. I told him, ‘You mean ambidextrous, coach?’

The main thing is confidence. I’m gaining more and more confidence to do whatever I want to do on the basketball court, whether it is shooting threes or sprinting to the rim and finishing or ball handling. I’m confident enough because I have worked on it that I am going to do the exact same things in the game.

I’m glad women‘s sprinting is taking the course it is.

We have this amazing ability to turn on the exactly same stress response worrying about a mortgage that a zebra does when it’s sprinting away from a lion.

No one likes going out and sprinting 20 sprints, but you do it because it’s going to help you.

We always said that directors work their whole lives to get final cut on a movie. We have that. So why would you want to run away from what every other director is sprinting toward their entire careers?

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

Sometimes I can’t sleep at night because I’m so excited to work on sprinting the next day, because I’m such a bad sprinter.

Think of it this way: performing is like sprinting while screaming for three, four minutes. And then you do it again. And then you do it again. And then you walk a little, shouting the whole time. And so on. Your adrenaline quickly overwhelms your conditioning.

Hurdling, sprinting, athletics in general, is always in the back of your mind.

So I was in football, athletics doing shot put and sprinting, and rugby all at the same time. Ultimately, I didn’t know how serious you had to take one of them and I was just a kid wanting to do everything at once.

In my view, fitness training isn’t that important in England, as they all train with such intensity anyway and have a competitive edge when just sprinting. The matches are all hard-fought, too.

This is a marathon in life. You can’t be sprinting all the time or else you wear yourself out. You have to make sure you’re taking care of yourself, keeping yourself grounded and not letting every little thing get you worked up.

You do, mostly, in track, different sessions, sprinting and medium sessions in different style. You have to see that even if the pace is slow in championships, you can still sprint well and you can still power the last 200, which is always the main part when the race is slow.

Photography is a demanding action sport. The light can change so quickly. I often find myself sprinting so that I can catch the perfect light falling on a photogenic subject.

I was running to catch a train when one of my teachers saw me. He thought I was fast, time me, and later gave me my first instructions in sprinting. I happened to be at the right place at the right time.

I live by a hill. I began walking it and then I began jogging it and then I began sprinting it.

I like watching athletics and I like watching boxing. Probably the sprints, I like watching sprinting.

Most of the time I meet my trainer at the gym and we do a lot of everything: weights circuit with cardio, football drills, sprinting with weights on the treadmill.

Bobsledding is like sprinting with NASCAR. You get to push these 400-pound sleds as fast as you can down a hill and hop in. How could you not enjoy that?

I never really hated any particular sport but out of all the sports, I used to prefer the team games to running and sprinting and those types of things.

Darren Campbell has helped me out a lot with my sprinting mechanics. These are things I’ve always wanted to do, but neglected as I am already fast and strong.