Talent is everywhere, it only needs the opportunity.

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Life is for participating, not for spectating.

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I said that there's going to come a day in our lives when women's running is as popular and as men's. Looking back, I obviously had a great sense of vision. And I was right.

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Women is out because she's getting in her daily dose of empowerment, freedom and fearlessness. She has put on her freedom wings for 20 minutes or two hours. That's going to make her whole day right and her whole future hold up and seem entirely possible. The sense of her not having any limits, or any restrictions, to me, is so liberating. She doesn't have to prove anything.

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Triumph over adversity that's what the marathon is all about. Nothing in life can't triumph after that

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I could feel my anger dissipating as the miles went by--you can't run and stay mad!

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Jock Semple and I were at daggers drawn for five years, even though I kind of forgave him from the get-go. I knew he was an over-stressed race director, I knew he was protecting his race. It took five years because we had to do our homework - meaning we women - we did our legislative work and we officially got into the Boston Marathon. Then, all was forgiven by Jock Semple.

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If you are losing faith in human nature, go out and watch a marathon.

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A picture, of Jock Semple kissed me,appeared in The New York Times the next day after Boston Marathon in 1973, and the caption was "The end of an era.

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I do forgive people when they get it right, even people who in the past I thought were unforgivable.

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