Two Hours Quotes

“Marathon runners, by default, must have resilient minds.”
― Ed Caesar, Two Hours: The Quest to Run the Impossible Marathon

“You think you can be a successful runner from a good family?” It was not really a question. He had talked of his upbringing in Ethiopia: about the poverty that surrounded him, and about the violence meted out to him in his home. Haile’s counterintuitive analysis was that all world-beating runners spring from twisted roots. He believed that a deficit of opportunities, and an early taste of pain, had not stifled his talent but fertilized it.”
― Ed Caesar, Two Hours: The Quest to Run the Impossible Marathon