Ron Clarke
Ron Clarke
Ronald William "Ron" Clarke, AO, MBEwas an Australian athlete, writer, and Mayor of the Gold Coast from 2004 to 2012. He was one of the best-known middle- and long-distance runners in the 1960s, notable for setting seventeen world records...
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When we got to the stadium, there were 5,000 people and it was a playoff-like atmosphere.
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On our first day of driving as we were heading out of Massachusetts, it was great to see other vehicles on the road also carrying down relief supplies. There was a caravan of 12 to 15 ambulances heading south out of New York state.
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They are out on the curb waiting for me, and I am still down at the other baggage claim waiting for them,
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This is a very important project for us. We spent a heck of a lot of money. . . . My client has bent over backwards to do everything that the staff has requested, Vote Yes on Preservation Pointe.
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I've got a little more pressure because there are a lot of fans out there rooting for me. But it'd be neat winning in your home town.
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Just a broken play where the quarterback scrambled around and found someone open. Other than that, hats goes off to our defense.
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The parking lots of the hotels around Jackson were jammed with various vehicles - power companies, county ambulances, relief trucks like ours, FEMA vehicles, fire and rescue trucks. FEMA was controlling all of the hotel rooms. It was kind of exciting, being at the center of the relief effort.
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We have a situation where two of the three selectmen who weren't invited to the meeting go off and complain to the DA's office. Mrs. Pratt goes to a bazillion meetings and she doesn't invite me along.
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We were able to run tonight, ... We controlled the line of scrimage, our O-line was outstanding and the runners did a great job.
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The hardest step for a runner to take is the first one out the door.
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Love testing yourself more than fearing loosing
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I got tired of seeing otherwise innocent young kids from all walks of life getting criminal records for, in effect, doing nothing more than millions of other people in society were doing with alcohol.
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It makes me sick to see a superior runner wait behind the field until 200 meters to go and then sprint away. That is immoral. It's both an insult to the other runners and a denigration of his own ability.