Tergat Quotes & Sayings

My upbringing gave me a strong will, a mental aggressiveness in what I wanted to achieve. — Paul Tergat

Kip Keino, Moses Tanui, Paul Tergat, they all come from my tribe. Some say it is the food we eat that makes us strong, the way we live. In the history of our people we wear no clothes and we are used to drinking the blood of animals. — Martin Lel

When we love others, we naturally want to talk about them, we want to show them off, like emotional trophies. We invest them with a power to do to others what they do to us; a vain hope, as the lovers of others are rarely of much interest to us. But we listen in patience, as friends must, and as Isabel now did, refraining from comment, other than to encourage the release of the story and the attendant confession of human frailty and hope. — Alexander McCall Smith

Blind faith in your leaders, or in anything, will get you killed. — Bruce Springsteen

Obstacles are opportunities turned upside down ... or prisons self-imposed. — Chriscinthia Blount

I see you finally got a number to match your IQ. — Bob Marley

I thought the race could be won in the last kilometers in the park. Every hill I ran in training I ran to gain an extra step in the park. — Paul Tergat

My mission is to see things as they are. Exactly contrary of a mission. — Emile M. Cioran

Metaphor is a slippery eel, if it wasn't for its shock I'd stick to the easy catch of prose. — David Joseph Cribbin

What about your parents? You can't let them down? Even if it means letting yourself down? Which I doubt they'd want for you. I understand about wanting to please your parents, to make them proud. It's a noble impulse, and I commend you for it. But at the end of the day, it's your education. You have to own it. And you should enjoy it. — Gayle Forman

It's probably the toughest distance race in the world to win. World class runners from 1500m to the marathon contest it and instead of just three runners from each country, like in the Olympics or World Championships, in the senior men's race there are nine. — Paul Tergat

Initially, I know that I handled it worse than she did and I think partly because I've always been ... every bit of adversity I've faced up until the last year and a half is adversity I brought upon myself - or the opposing teams have given me. — Brett Favre

Ask yourself: 'Can I give more?'. The answer is usually: 'Yes'. — Paul Tergat

A beetle lumbered up onto her arm, and she stilled herself, enjoying the tickling feeling of its thread-thin feet. It was deep green with shimmers of blue and turquoise, with pitch-black legs. She kissed it very softly. If happiness were a color, it would be the color of this beetle, thought Wil. — Katherine Rundell

If you start to revise before you've reached the end, you're likely to begin dawdling with the revisions and putting off the difficult task of writing. — Pearl S. Buck

I need wings," said Total, still sniffling. "I need my own wings. Then things like that wouldn't happen."
Yeah, that was all I needed. A flying talking mutant dog. — James Patterson

I don't know what I mean, but I know I believe it. — Jane Urquhart

All the talking in the world couldn't even prove you and the other person both saw the same color red. — L.J.Smith