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"He looked... as if he might be having a fit."

— Cordner Nelson

"He ran as if tortured by internal demons."

— Kenny Moore

"He ran every step of a race as if there was a scorpion in each shoe."

— William Johnson

"He runs like a man wasting no time getting out of a graveyard at the witches' hour with blood on the moon."

— Allison Danzig

"Witnesses ... still wake up screaming in the dark when Emil the Terrible goes writhing through their dreams, clawing at his abdomen in horrible extremities of pain."

— Red Smith

Zatopek had many critics, but he ultimately silenced the proud criticism of them all.

He runs like a man who has just been stabbed in the heart.

— European coach

From:Sri Chinmoy,Emil Zatopek: earth's tearing cry and Heaven's beaming smile, Agni Press, 1980
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