"You must persevere!" -Coach Springstead
"To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." -Steve Prefontaine
“The miracle isn't that I finish. The miracle is that I had the courage to start."— John Bingham (author/runner)
“The men who learn endurance, are they who call the whole world, brother." — Charles Dickens
"Running: No half times, no time outs, no substitutions. It must be the only true sport."
"Real athletes run, others just play games!"
"If you can beat 50 guys, why beat only 49?" -Coach Springstead
"It hurts up to a point and then it doesn't get any worse." -Ann Trason
"Most people race to see who is the fastest. I run to see who has the most guts." -Steve Prefontaine
"Pain is nature's way of telling you that you are still alive."
"The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win." -Roger Bannister
"The only time hard work beats talent is when talent doesn't work hard."
"Pain is weakness leaving the body."
"To win means nothing without the will to prepare."
"My sport is your team's punishment."
"Nobody who ever gave his best regretted it."
"Champions are made when nobody is watching."
"The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do."
"Some people create with words, or with music, or with a brush and paints. I like to make something beautiful when I run. I like to make people stop and say, "I've never seen anyone run like that before." It's more than just a race, it's a style. It's doing something better than anyone else. It's being creative."
“Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.”
“You cannot propel yourself forward by patting yourself on the back.”
“A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.”
“Life’s battles don't always go to the strongest or fastest man,
But sooner or later the man who wins is the fellow who thinks he can.”
“Success isn't how far you got, but the distance you traveled from where you started.”
“Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”
“If you fail to prepare, prepare to fail.”
"A race is a work of art that people can look at and be affected in as many ways they’re capable of understanding."
"Man imposes his own limitations, don't set any" -Anthony Bailey
"Champions do not become champions when they win the event, but in the hours, weeks, months and years they spend preparing for it. The victorious performance itself is merely the demonstration of their championship character." -T. Alan Armstrong
"Tomorrow is another day, and there will be another battle!" -Sebastian Coe
"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." - Confucius
"All it takes is all you got." -Marc Davis
"The five S's of sports training are: Stamina, Speed, Strength, Skill and Spirit; but the greatest of these is Spirit." -Ken Doherty
"Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself." -William Faulkner
"Ability is what you are capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it." -Lou Holtz
"Other people may not have high expectations of me, but I have high expectations for myself." - Shannon Miller
"Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there." - Will Rogers
"You can fight without ever winning, but never ever, win without a fight."
"It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness."
"Do a little more each day than you think you possibly can." -Lowell Thomas
"Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed." -Booker T. Washington
"Running is a mental sport...and we're all insane!"
"Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss it you will land among the stars." -Les Brown
"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy." -Martin Luther King, Jr.
"No one ever drowned in sweat."
"Gold medals aren't really made of gold. They're made of sweat, determination, and a hard-to-find alloy called guts." -Dan Gable
"To win without risk is to triumph without glory."-Pierre Cornielle
"In running, it doesn't matter whether you come in first, in the middle of the pack, or last. You can say 'I have finished.' There is a lot of satisfaction in that."
"There are clubs you can't belong to, neighborhoods you can't live in, schools you can't get into, but the roads are always open." - Nike
"I've always felt that long, slow distance produces long, slow runners." - Sebastian Coe
"Every morning in Africa a gazelle wakes up. It knows it must move faster than the lion or it will not survive. Every morning a lion wakes up and it knows it must move faster than the slowest gazelle or it will starve. It doesn't matter if you are the lion or the gazelle, when the sun comes up, you better be moving." - Maurice Greene
"Most people run a race to see who is fastest. I run a race to see who has the most guts." - Steve Prefontaine
"You have to forget your last marathon before you try another. Your mind can't know what's coming." - Frank Shorter
The only reason I would take up jogging is so that I could hear heavy breathing again. - Erma Bombeck
Finland has produced so many brilliant distance runners because back home it costs $2.50 a gallon for gas. - Esa Tikkannen, 1979
There are as many reasons for running as there are days in the year, years in my life. But mostly I run because I am an animal and a child, an artist and a saint. So, too, are you. Find your own play, your own self-renewing compulsion, and you will become the person you are meant to be. - George Sheehan
If God invented marathons to keep people from doing anything more stupid, the triathlon must have taken Him completely by surprise. - P.Z. Pearce
The difference between a jogger and a runner is an entry blank. - George Sheehan
"There ain't no shame looking at a good runner's back. Now, if the runner sucks, that's something else entirely… "The Rage, Training Tips "Comeback"
"No doubt a brain and some shoes are essential for marathon success, although if it comes down to a choice, pick the shoes. More people finish marathons with no brains than with no shoes." - Don Kardong
"There will come a point in the race, when you alone will need to decide. You will need to make a choice. Do you really want it? You will need to decide." - Rolf Arands
"Most mistakes in a race are made in the first two minutes, perhaps in the very first minute." - Jack Daniels, Exercise Physiologist and Coach
"Why aren't you signed up for the 401K? I'd never be able to run that far." - Scott Adams, Dilbert (4/2/01)
"If you can't win, make the fellow ahead of you break the record." - Unknown
"Hills are speedwork in disguise." - Frank Shorter
"Run like hell and get the agony over with." - Clarence DeMar
"If you run 100 miles a week, you can eat anything you want - Why? Because...
(a) you'll burn all the calories you consume,(b) you deserve it, and(c) you'll be injured soon and back on a restricted diet anyway." - Don Kardong
"Running is real and relatively simple...but it ain't easy." - Mark Will-Weber
"We can't all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by." - Will Rogers
"It's very hard in the beginning to understand that the whole idea is not to beat the other runners. Eventually you learn that the competition is against the little voice inside you that wants you to quit." - George Sheehan
"Your body will argue that there is no justifiable reason to continue. Your only recourse is to call on your spirit, which fortunately functions independently of logic." - Tim Noakes
"Now if you are going to win any battle you have to do one thing. You have to make the mind run the body. Never let the body tell the mind what to do. The body will always give up. It is always tired morning, noon, and night. But the body is never tired if the mind is not tired. When you were younger the mind could make you dance all night, and the body was never tired..You've got to make the mind take over and keep going." - George S. Patton, U.S. Army General and 1912 Olympian
"My favorite moments are when I pass someone who's huffing and puffing and all I got are some slightly tired legs" - Troy Streacker
"Aspire to be great instead of good, aspire to be remembered instead of forgotten, aspire to accompish what others have and have not done, aspire to be yourself and nothing else for when you strive to be yourself everything is limitless because you are not holding yourself to the limits of others." - Troy Streacker
"Running is the greatest metaphor for life, because you get out of it what you put into it." - Oprah Winfrey
"Racing teaches us to challenge ourselves. It teaches us to push beyond where we thought we could go. It helps us to find out what we are made of. This is what we do. This is what it's all about." - PattiSue Plummer, U.S. Olympian
"You also need to look back, not just at the people who are running behind you but especially at those who don't run and never will...those who run but don't race...those who started training for a race but didn't carry through...those who got to the starting line but didn't get to the finish line...those who once raced better than you but no longer run at all. You're still here. Take pride in wherever you finish. Look at all the people you've outlasted." - Joe Henderson
"The task ahead of you is never greater than the strength within you." - Unknown
"Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up, it knows it must outrun the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning in Africa, a lion wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the slowest gazelle, or it will starve. It doesn’t matter whether you’re the lion or a gazelle-when the sun comes up, you’d better be running." - Christopher McDougall / unknown parable
“Run when you can, walk if you have to, crawl if you must; just never give up.” - Dean Karnazes, Ultramarathon Runner and Author
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