2018 Quotes of the Day -
Coach Gill - "Human beings are like oranges...when pressure is applied, what's inside comes out."
2016 Quotes of the Day -
Jesse Seid - “The only good race pace is suicide pace, and today looks like a good day to die.” - Steve Prefontaine
Coach Randall - “Now this is the Law of the Jungle -- as old and as true as the sky;
And the Wolf that shall keep it may prosper, but the Wolf that shall break it must die.
As the creeper that girdles the tree-trunk the Law runneth forward and back --
For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.” - Rudyard Kipling
"You have to change things in order to get to where you want to go. And things might get worse.
But if you're not getting where you want to be, already, in a sense, it's as bad as it can get." - Alberto Salazar
"In the midst of an ordinary training day, I try to remind myself that I am preparing for the extraordinary." - Shalane Flanagan
2015 Quotes of the Day Archive
Nico - "We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort.” - Jesse Owens
Amaya - “The Man who says he can, and the man who says he can not.. Are both correct” - Confucius
Coach Gill - "The reason most people fail rather than succeed is they trade what they want most for what they want at the moment."
Brandi - "It doesn't matter what you've heard. Impossible is not a word. It's just a reason for someone not to try." - Kutless
Tommy - "Ask yourself: 'Can I give more?'. The answer is usually: 'Yes'.” - Paul Tergat, Kenyan marathoner
Running Inspiration - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZMHM3GVeoU
Sydney - “I know what I have to do, and I’m going to do whatever it takes. If I do it, I’ll come out a winner, and it doesn’t matter what anyone else does.” - Florence Griffith Joyner
Flo-Jo Seoul 1988 Olympics - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2MGfxwl3WM
Thomas - "Try not! Do or do not, there is no try." - Yoda
Carter - "Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place.
If I quit, however, it lasts forever." - Eric Thomas
Elizabeth - "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." - Aristotle
Taylor - "The will to win means nothing if you haven't the will to prepare.” - Juma Ikangaa, 1989 NYC Marathon winner
Ryan - "Running! Yes, running!" - Coach Nolan Pratt
Laura - "To give anything less than your best, is to sacrifice the gift." - Steve Prefontaine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKm6yuX_3Vs
Coach Gill - "I know that God made me, but he also made me fast...and when I run I can feel his pleasure." - Eric Liddell, 1924 Olympic 400 gold medalist (Chariots of Fire).
Clip from the movie (true story) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4e5Xfmc8zQ Olympic 400 final scene - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwyltmUR3MU
2015 Videos of the Week
USA Women break the 27 year old WR in the 4x100 at the 2012 London Olympics (race starts at 3:30 in) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAfhf_u_QBI