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Top 25 Grete Waitz Quotes (2024 Update)

Grete Waitz Quote: “I am a private person and that has always been my personality.”

1. “I am a private person and that has always been my personality.”

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Grete Waitz Quote: “My basic philosophy can be summed up by an expression we use in Norwegian: hurry slowly. Get there, but be patient.”

2. “My basic philosophy can be summed up by an expression we use in Norwegian: hurry slowly. Get there, but be patient.”

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Grete Waitz Quote: “Sustained motivation is essential to achieving your potential.”

3. “Sustained motivation is essential to achieving your potential.”

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Grete Waitz Quote: “You’ve got to look for tough competition. You’ve got to want to beat the best.”

4. “You’ve got to look for tough competition. You’ve got to want to beat the best.”

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Grete Waitz Quote: “In terms of fitness and battling through cancer, exercise helps you stay strong physically and mentally.”

5. “In terms of fitness and battling through cancer, exercise helps you stay strong physically and mentally.”

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Grete Waitz Quote: “There is something about the ritual of the race – putting on the number, lining up, being timed – that brings out the best in us.”

6. “There is something about the ritual of the race – putting on the number, lining up, being timed – that brings out the best in us.”

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Grete Waitz Quote: “When I came to New York in 1978, I was a full-time school teacher and track runner, and determined to retire from competitive running. But winning the New York City Marathon kept me running for another decade.”

7. “When I came to New York in 1978, I was a full-time school teacher and track runner, and determined to retire from competitive running. But winning the New York City Marathon kept me running for another decade.”

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Grete Waitz Quote: “Every day I spend time on the treadmill. I am walking faster, stronger and harder than I was two months ago.”

8. “Every day I spend time on the treadmill. I am walking faster, stronger and harder than I was two months ago.”

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$Grete Waitz Quote: “The worst injury I ever had was a stress fracture from running.”$

9. “The worst injury I ever had was a stress fracture from running.”

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Grete Waitz Quote: “I tried to keep it secret, but the story got into the newspapers. It was more difficult for my family, who couldn’t understand why the media wouldn’t leave me in peace.”

10. “I tried to keep it secret, but the story got into the newspapers. It was more difficult for my family, who couldn’t understand why the media wouldn’t leave me in peace.”

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Grete Waitz Quote: “For every finish-line tape a runner breaks – complete with the cheers of the crowd and the clicking of hundreds of cameras – there are the hours of hard and often lonely work that rarely gets talked about.”

11. “For every finish-line tape a runner breaks – complete with the cheers of the crowd and the clicking of hundreds of cameras – there are the hours of hard and often lonely work that rarely gets talked about.”

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Grete Waitz Quote: “One day you are happy and laughing and the next you are crying.”

12. “One day you are happy and laughing and the next you are crying.”

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Grete Waitz Quote: “I’m never going to run this again.”

13. “I’m never going to run this again.”

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Grete Waitz Quote: “Some people feel ‘transformed’ from the first day they begin running; others feel that it’s just plain hard work. Most of us realize it is both. I know how great running can feel, but I also know it can feel not so great, even downright awful! It can be fun, but it takes work to have that fun.”

14. “Some people feel ‘transformed’ from the first day they begin running; others feel that it’s just plain hard work. Most of us realize it is both. I know how great running can feel, but I also know it can feel not so great, even downright awful! It can be fun, but it takes work to have that fun.”

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Grete Waitz Quote: “Spend at least some of your training time, and other parts of your day, concentrating on what you are doing in training and visualizing your success.”

15. “Spend at least some of your training time, and other parts of your day, concentrating on what you are doing in training and visualizing your success.”

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Grete Waitz Quote: “My goal has always been to introduce other people to running. They might accomplish something they never thought they could.”

16. “My goal has always been to introduce other people to running. They might accomplish something they never thought they could.”

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Grete Waitz Quote: “What spurs a person to get more serious is highly individual, but I have found that no matter what a person’s level of ability, motivation must come from within, or it will not last.”

17. “What spurs a person to get more serious is highly individual, but I have found that no matter what a person’s level of ability, motivation must come from within, or it will not last.”

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Grete Waitz Quote: “To suddenly be a hero on a world basis was hard for me to understand. God gave me a gift. I got the chance to use it. I didn’t think I deserved what people were saying. My talent is just more visible than theirs.”

18. “To suddenly be a hero on a world basis was hard for me to understand. God gave me a gift. I got the chance to use it. I didn’t think I deserved what people were saying. My talent is just more visible than theirs.”

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Grete Waitz Quote: “I am living in Norway, where I am under the care of the best cancer doctor in Norway and I can be closer to my family.”

19. “I am living in Norway, where I am under the care of the best cancer doctor in Norway and I can be closer to my family.”

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Grete Waitz Quote: “Another inspiration that has helped me get through has been Lance Armstrong’s story. My cancer is not nearly as bad as his, but I believe in staying motivated and keeping as fit as you can.”

20. “Another inspiration that has helped me get through has been Lance Armstrong’s story. My cancer is not nearly as bad as his, but I believe in staying motivated and keeping as fit as you can.”

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Grete Waitz Quote: “I am about to get involved with the biggest cancer hospital in Norway. They are building a fitness center to work with patients. I will be a consultant.”

21. “I am about to get involved with the biggest cancer hospital in Norway. They are building a fitness center to work with patients. I will be a consultant.”

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Grete Waitz Quote: “You go into the disease as one person and come out of it as a different person. It has changed my perspective on everything. Things that used to upset me no longer do.”

22. “You go into the disease as one person and come out of it as a different person. It has changed my perspective on everything. Things that used to upset me no longer do.”

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Grete Waitz Quote: “What Fred Lebow went through was an inspiration for me. You have to set goals for yourself.”

23. “What Fred Lebow went through was an inspiration for me. You have to set goals for yourself.”

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Grete Waitz Quote: “I don’t think I would have been such a good runner if I hadn’t enjoyed it.”

24. “I don’t think I would have been such a good runner if I hadn’t enjoyed it.”

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Grete Waitz Quote: “For a couple of days after chemotherapy, food tastes really bland, even the best foods. I haven’t been sick, but have been a little tired. I haven’t lost any weight.”

25. “For a couple of days after chemotherapy, food tastes really bland, even the best foods. I haven’t been sick, but have been a little tired. I haven’t lost any weight.”

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