Jeff Galloway Quotes

The label of "marathoner" has, from the beginning, been awarded to those who went the distance under their own power, whether they ran, walked, crawled or tiptoed. When you cross that finish line, you've entered an elite group. About one-tenth of one percent of the population has done it. Don't let anyone take that great achievement away from you.

What’s clear is that we need business leaders who envision, and enact, a future with more jobs—not billionaires who want the government to fund, with taxes they avoid, social programs for people to sit on their couches and watch Netflix all day. Jeff, show some real fucking vision.

A few months later I got a call from a close friend, Jeff Bloch. “I was reading in Men’s Health that they’re going to do a search for a regular guy to put on the cover,” Jeff said. He went on to tell me that Men’s Health usually only had celebrities on their cover, but they were teaming up with Kenneth Cole to do this “Ultimate Guy Search,” and Jeff thought I should enter. During my Army days I used to tell the guys that I’d be on the cover of Men’s Health someday. Back then it was a real pie-in-the-sky dream, but I thought about it a lot. I even thought about it again after I was injured and started to design my own workouts. I thought I had a legit story for them. But of course it wasn’t a reality until Jeff’s call.

To reach the finish line in a marathon is to enter an elite group: only about one-tenth of 1 percent of the population does it.

By having at least one long run beyond 26 miles, you can boost your endurance limit, which will allow you to maintain a hard marathon pace for a longer time in the marathon itself. When you go the extra distance, it is crucial to take the walk breaks and adhere to the pacing guidelines. For maximum performance, your longest run should be 28 to 29 miles. And, I’ll say it again: you must go extra slowly on those extra-long runs. Walk breaks Take walk breaks every mile, from the beginning, to reduce fatigue. Put in a 1-minute walk break every 1–3 minutes of running from the beginning. Walk breaks do not reduce the endurance value of the

If you wait until the spirit moves you to run, you will probably have many empty spaces in your training journal. You must also be in charge of the little things that keep the schedule filled—such as spending a few minutes a week to plan your weekly runs, and to reward yourself afterward.

En una de sus famosas cartas a los inversores, Jeff Bezos destacó que lo que acaba con las compañías maduras es su apego poco saludable a los procesos acostumbrados. Solo hay que preguntarle a Óscar Muñoz, CEO de United Airlines, quien defendió a los empleados de la aerolínea que sacaron a un pasajero a rastras de un avión, porque «habían seguido los protocolos preestablecidos para hacer frente a ese tipo de situaciones».

A lifestyle change begins with a vision and a single step.’ Jeff Galloway

Jeff Bezos owns The Washington Post (conveniently, the biggest media company in D.C.), and he’s building Amazon’s second headquarters (HQ2) across the river from—shocker!—the capital city.

We are designed to run and we increase our chance of daily happiness when we do so.” Jeff Galloway, running coach

Today, America is more feudal than democratic. One man—Jeff Bezos—has enough capital to end homelessness in the U.S. ($20 billion), eradicate malaria worldwide ($90 billion), and pay 700,000 teachers’ salaries. Bezos makes the average Amazon employee’s annual salary every ten seconds. Yes, we are a country that rewards genius, but we used to be one that showed kindness and generosity to those in need.

those with the right Run-Walk-Run adjustments are strong to the finish. They are the “passers” not the passees” during the last few miles—which is very empowering.

Many runners in the 12-16 minute pace range have reported running 60+ minutes faster in the marathon or 30+ minutes faster in the half marathon when they switched to R/W/R.

Rehearsals become patterns of behavior more easily if you don’t think but just move from one action to the next. The power of the rehearsal is that you have formatted your brain for a series of actions so that you don’t have to think as you move from one action to the next. As you repeat the pattern, revising it for real life, you become what you want to be.