Running Quotes To Live by

Running Quotes to Live By
Cross Country: No half times, no time

outs, no substitutions. It must be
the only true sport.--Author Unknown
No one ever drowned in sweat.--
Author Unknown
Cross Country Finally a practical use
for golf courses.--Author
Unknown
The will to win is worthless, without the
will to prepare.-- Author Unknown
In running, it doesnt 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.--Author Unknown
The true test of a mans character is what he does when he knows he wont get caught.--Author
Unknown
Some people dont have the guts for distance racing. The polite term for them is sprinters.--Author
Unknown
Its rude to count people as you pass them. Out loud.--Adidas ad
Those who say that I will lose and am finished will have to run over my body to beat me.--Said Aouita
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
Sport is not about being wrapped up in cotton wool. Sport as about adapting to the unexpected and being
able to modify plans at the last minute. Sport, like all life, is about taking risks.--Sir Roger Bannister
Running is a lot like life. Only 10 percent of it is exciting. 90 percent of it is slog and drudge.--Dave
Bedford
My feeling is that any day I am too busy to run is a day that I am too busy.--John Bryant
A lot of people dont realize that about 98 percent of the running I put in is anything but glamorous: 2
percent joyful participation, 98 percent dedication! Its a tough formula. Getting out in the forest in the
biting cold and the flattening heat, and putting in kilometer after kilometer.--Rob de Castella
The great thing about athletics is that its like poker, sometimes you know whats in your hand and it may
be a load of rubbish, but youve got to keep up the front.--Sebastian Coe
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
To win without risk is to triumph without glory.--Pierre Cornielle
The five Ss of sports training are: Stamina, Speed, Strength, Skill and
Spirit; but the greatest of these is Spirit.--Ken Doherty
The only tactics I admire are do-or-die.--Herb Elliott
I tell our runners to divide the race into thirds. Run the first part with your head, the middle part with your
personality, and the last part with your heart.--Mike Fanelli
Dont bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.--
William Faulkner
Somewhere in the world someone is training when you are not. When you race him, he will win.--Tom
Flemings Boston Marathon training sign on his wall
The body does not want you to do this. As you run, it tells you to stop but the mind must be strong. You
always go too far for your body. You must handle the pain with strategyIt is not age; it is not diet. It is the
will to succeed.--Jacqueline Gareau
You have a choice. You can throw in the towel, or you can use it to wipe the sweat off of your face.--
Gatorade ad
The will to win means nothing without the will to prepare.--Juma Ikangaa
It is true that speed kills. In distance running, it kills anyone who does not have
it.--Brooks Johnson
The thing about Pre is that he ran as hard as he could every race, and if you
were going to beat him, you were going to have to run harder than he did.--
Bob Kennedy
When you are a up-and-coming runner in the U.S., and making some
breakthroughs in distances, Pre is still the man that you are compared to. Its
always based on Pre.--Bob Kennedy
If you want to make God laugh, just try and make plans for the future.--Ron
Litzler
Running is a big question mark thats there each and every day. It asks you,
Are you going to be a wimp or are you going to be strong today?--Peter Maher
I havent seen too many American distance men on the international scene willing to take risks. I saw some
U.S. women in Barcelona willing to risk, more than men. The Kenyans risk. Steve Prefontaine risked. I
risked I went through the first half of the Tokyo race just a second off my best 5000 time.--Billy Mills
Only think of two things the report of the pistol and the tape. When you hear one, run like hell, until you
break the other.--Sam Mussabini
Mind is everything: muscle pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.--Paavo Nurmi
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. Youve always got to make the mind take over and keep
going.--George S. Patton
Workouts are like brushing my teeth; I dont think about them, I just do them. The decision has already
been made.
--Patti Sue Plumer
A race is a work of art that people can look at and be affected in as many ways as theyre capable of
understanding.
--Steve Prefontaine
A lot of people run a race to see whos the fastest. I run to see who has the most guts. --Steve
Prefontaine
My whole feeling in terms of racing is that you have to be very bold. You sometimes have to be aggressive
and gamble.--Bill Rodgers
Even if youre on the right track, youll get run over if you just sit there.--Will Rogers
I had as many doubts as anyone else. Standing on the starting line, were all cowards.--Alberto Salazar
The marathon is like a bullfight. There are two ways to kill a bull, for instance. There is the easy way, for
one. But all the great matadors end up either dead or mauled because for them killing the bull is not
nearly as important as how they kill the bull. They always approach the bull at the greatest risk to
themselves, and I admire that. In the marathon,
likewise, there are two ways to win. Theres the easy way if all you care about is winning. You hang back
and risk nothing. Then kick and try to nip the leaders at the end. Or you can push, challenge the others,
make it an exciting race, risking everything. Maybe you lose, but as for me, Id rather run a gutsy race,
pushing all the way and lose, then run a
conservative, easy race only for a win.--Alberto Salazar
Listen to your body. Do not be a blind and deaf tenant.--Dr. George Sheehan
The long run is what puts the tiger in the cat.--Bill Squires
Stadiums are for spectators. We runners have nature and that is much better.--
Juha Vaatainen
Once youre beat mentally, you might was well not even go to the starting line.
--Todd Williams
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.

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