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INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES

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(last updated 11/10/01)



  • While Most Are Dreaming of Success, Winners Wake-Up and Work Hard To Achieve It.

  • Run Hard When It's Hard To Run.

  • Hard Work Beats Talent When Talent Doesn't Work Hard.

  • The Tougher The Experience, The Tougher You Become

  • Winning Isn't Always A Victory...Losing Isn't Always A Defeat.

  • The One Who Says It Can't Be Done, Is Generally Passed Up By Someone Doing It.

  • The Journey Of A Thousand Miles Begins With A Single Step.

  • Determination Is Often The First Chapter In The Book Of Excellence

  • Pain Is Temporary. Pride Is Forever.

  • If You're Not Enjoying The Journey, You Probably Won't Enjoy The Destination.

  • The Race Goes Not Always To The Swift...But To Those Who Keep On Running

  • Have The Courage To Rest.

  • Winners Must Have Two Things; Definate Goals And A Burning Desire To Achieve Them.

  • The Road To Success Is Always Under Construction

  • If The Going Gets Easy, You May Be Going Downhill

  • Triumph Is Just "UMPH" Added To Try

  • The Harder The Course, The More Rewarding The Triumph

  • The Hardest Thing Besides Running Is Not Running

  • Mind And Body Are One and If We Do Not Train Physically As Well As Mentally We Will Never Reach Our Full Potential.

  • No One Can Predict To What Heights You Can Soar. Even You Won't Know Until You Spread Your Wings.

  • 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.

  • Don't Be Content With Being Average. Average Is As Close To The Bottom As It Is To The Top.

  • There Are Many Things In Life That Will Catch Your Eye, But Only a Few That Will Catch Your Heart...Pursue Those.

  • It Has Been Said That a Cross Country Race Is Divided Up Into Thirds. Run The First With Your Brain, The Second With Your Legs, and The Last Third With Your Heart.

  • Hard Work Beats Talent When Talent Doesn't Work Hard.

  • If You Always Do What You've Always Done, You'll Always Get What You've Always Gotten.

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  • "People can't understand why a man runs. They don't see any sport in it, argue that it lacks the sight-thrill of body contact, the color of rough conflict. Yet the conflict is there, more raw and challenging than any man versus man competition. In track it is man against himself, the cruelest of all opponents. The other runners are not the real enemies. His adversary lies deep within him, in his ability, with brain and heart, to control and master himself and his emotions." -Anonymous

  • "Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." -Confucius

  • "Losing puts things in perspective. If you win all the time, it would be easy to believe nobody could ever beat you. Losing reminds me there's going to be somebody out there who's going to pop onto the scene one day just like I did and start winning." -Marion Jones

  • "When you love to run and you train hard enough to really feel it, running is all about freedom. Also, I find that sharing the value of our sport is very important. When I think back on my life, it isn't the winning that I remember so much, it's the people who I met through running." -Doris Brown Heritage, won four International Cross-Country Championships between 1967 and 1971, and was a two-time Olympian

  • "Mental will is a muscle that needs exercise, just like muscles of the body" -Lynn Jennings, three-time World Cross-Country champion

  • "The real purpose of running isn't to win a race, it's to test the limits of the human heart!" -Bill Bowerman

  • "My life is a gift to me from my creator. What I choose to do with my life is my gift back to my creator." -Billy Mills

  • "The height of competition is to reach within the depth of your capabilities and compete against yourself to the greatest extent possible!" -Billy Mills

  • "When you reach the first peak, there are two things you can do. First, you should look backward to see how far you've come, and then you should look forward to see the next peak." -Michael Johnson

  • "Run with your heart instead of your mind. When you think with your mind, you think of the things you can and can't do. But when you run with your heart you forget about what you can't do, and you just go out and do it." -Gerry Lindgren

  • "No one is going to give you a gold medal. You have to come out and fight for it, and be actually willing to die for it. . . . I would have killed myself to finish that race." -Maurice Greene

  • "Dont worry about people telling you to stop doing too much and that you will burn out. Burning out is mental, and if you are tough you can do anything." -Dathan Ritzenhein

  • "It could all end tomorrow, so enjoy what you have and never take it for granted. And never forget to take an easy run for yourself once in a while and just remember why you love to run." -Dathan Ritzenhein

  • "A race is analogous to life itself. Once it is over, it can never be recreated. All that is left are impressions in the heart, and in the mind." -Adam Batliner (Running W/ The Buffs)

  • "Anybody can train when he's psyched up, but it's the guy who can go out and force himself to run when he doesn't feel like it who is going to eventually succeed." -Marty Liquori

  • "To Give Anything Less Than Your Best Is To Sacrifice The Gift." - Pre

  • "When I stepped onto the track I felt my legs go rubbery. I saw over a 100,000 people in the stands, and before I knew it, I had collapsed onto the infield grass. 'Can it be,' I remembered thinking, as I lay there gazing up at the sky, 'that I'm so nervous I'm not going to be able to run?' Then I realized how ridiculous I'd look, flat on my back on the grass as they started the race. I guess the humor of that image made me lose my nervousness. I was able to recover, get up and jog to the starting line." -Tom Courtney, on the moments before he won the Olympic 800m gold in Melbourne

  • "Blink and you miss a sprint. The 10,000 meters is lap after lap of waiting. Theatrically, the mile is just the right length: beginning, middle, end, a story unfolding." -Sebastian Coe

  • "I ran my first sub-4-minute mile in 1977 and since then have run 136 more. Nobody has run as many sub-4s as I have, and I intend to run at least one more." -Steve Scott, 1995, after cancer surgery

  • "Do or do not. There is no try." -YODA

  • "The person who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful will win." -Roger Banister

  • "The only place SUCCESS comes before WORK is in the dictionary." -Vince Lombardi

  • "The miracle isn't that I finished...the miracle is that I had the courage to start." -John Bingham

  • "Some people run a race to see who is the fastest. I run to see who has the most guts, who can punish himself into an exhausting pace and then at the end, punish himself even more. Nobody is going to win a 5000-meter race after running an easy two miles. Not with me. If I lose forcing the pace all the way, well, at least I can live with myself." -Steve Prefontaine