World Marathon Champion

Famous quotes containing the words world, marathon and/or champion:

    To me this decaying landscape has its uses:
    To make me remember, who am always inclined to forget,
    That there is always a changing at the root,
    And a real world in which time really passes.
    Philip Larkin (1922–1986)

    ... marathon swimming is the most difficult physical, intellectual and emotional battleground I have encountered, and each time I win, each time I touch the other shore, I feel worthy of any other challenge life has to offer.
    Diana Nyad (b. 1949)

    Let’s not quibble! I’m the foe of moderation, the champion of excess. If I may lift a line from a die-hard whose identity is lost in the shuffle, “I’d rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.”
    Tallulah Bankhead (1903–1968)