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Zola Budd
18 quotes
“I have never watched that video; I never will.”
“It is difficult to summarize it. There have been lots of bad times. But lots of good times as well.”
“The biggest regret I have is running the ’84 Olympics. I was too young, so inexperienced, and being whisked to Great Britain, and all the politics. It was a life-changing experience, being blamed for apartheid, the political situation in South Africa, the stress on our family, everything.”
“It was the third or fourth lap when the pace drastically slowed. Because I was barefoot, I wanted to get to the front. On the next lap [after taking the lead from Decker], I felt something tug on my vest and the crowd started booing. On the next lap, Mary was laying on the infield.”
“It is just sad that it happened between me and Mary. If it had been anyone else, if it had been Wendy Sly … But because it was Mary.”
“Going barefoot is a way of life, Growing up, I loved my running. I was just barefoot and playing and getting stronger. It is good for the feet.”
“[Barefoot running] is a great movement, but you have to approach it conservatively. You have to do it gradually. For kids, I recommend running on grass and safe surfaces. I would not recommend running on the roads barefoot. I never did.”
“It just shows I was right all along.”
“It was hectic, having three kids in two years. It was a lot of work, You can run, but you do not get much time to recover. I would get ill with colds and the flu. But after those three years, I slowly got my life back and started running again.”
“First of all, finish strongly, to actually finish, to start out slow and conservative and feel good about the race. I don’t have any time in mind. I don’t regard myself as a marathon runner. Maybe I will be competitive in my age group for the first five places. I just want to run and see how I do.”
“I only train when I feel like it. I don’t do half the mileage I used to.”
“I don’t really do a lot of long runs. I would rather do high-intensity work, because it takes so long to recover [from the long run].”
“Especially when you have kids, it puts life in perspective. It puts [the 1984 Olympics] at the bottom of importance. It is just another life event. It was important, but not as important as having kids. I never talk about my running. This is the first year we put a picture of me running in the house, but when Lisa was born, we took everything down.”
“I wanted them to see the benefits of running, of being healthy and of being outdoors in the countryside. I want them to do it because they like it and not to be competitive.”
“So I am not the only one. We were all barefoot. I grew up with really good runners and watched them race quite a lot. It is just something that naturally developed. It is the reason I enjoy it.”
“I wore shoes only for distance runs on the roads. Runs would be 1K laps on the grass, and all our races were barefoot as well. It is the way we grew up in South Africa. Even today, kids are encouraged to go barefoot. It all starts with the foot; if the foot is strong, the body posture will be the same way.”
“So sluggish and uncomfortable. I had more injuries running with shoes than I ever did barefoot. I always felt so restricted in shoes. It felt like they weighed 200 pounds. I am so glad it [natural and barefoot running] is being rediscovered.”
“I love my running; I don’t think my life would be complete without it.”
Zola Budd (born 1966) first seen 2010 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Zola Budd: Still Running Naturally", Runners World (October 03 2010)