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“The prize never goes to the fastest guy,” Chris replied. “It goes to the guy who slows down the least.”
― Finding Ultra: Rejecting Middle Age, Becoming One of the World's Fittest Men, and Discovering Myself
― Finding Ultra: Rejecting Middle Age, Becoming One of the World's Fittest Men, and Discovering Myself
“You only ever grow as a human being if you’re outside your comfort zone.”
― Eat and Run: My Unlikely Journey to Ultramarathon Greatness
― Eat and Run: My Unlikely Journey to Ultramarathon Greatness
“If it comes easy, if it doesn’t require extraordinary effort, you’re not pushing hard enough: It’s supposed to hurt like hell.”
― Ultramarathon Man: Confessions of an All-Night Runner
― Ultramarathon Man: Confessions of an All-Night Runner
“The recommended practice is to stop for five minutes at half of the deepest depth to which you have been diving and to stop again at a depth of 15 to 20 feet (4.5 to 6.1 m) for five minutes before surfacing.”
― Scuba Diving
― Scuba Diving
“but in today’s world with women’s rights and equality being such an integral part of life I think it is an important observation, because when I look around me for a role model of a woman who has succeeded as a woman, all I see are women who are clones of the men. I can’t help but wonder what will happen one day when women start playing by their own rules.”
― Fatally Flawed: The Quest to be Deepest
― Fatally Flawed: The Quest to be Deepest
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