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Motivational Quotes
"A lot of people run a race to see who is fastest. I run to see who has the most guts, who can punish himself into exhausting pace, and then at the end, punish himself even more. Nobody is going to win a 5,000 meter race after running an easy 2 miles. Not with me. If I lose forcing the pace all the way, well, at least I can live with myself." - Steve Prefontaine
"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 a lion or a gazelle-when the sun comes up, you’d better be running." - Anonymous
"The price of excellence is discipline. The cost of mediocrity is disappointment." - William W. Ward
The only easy day was yesterday - USN SEAL HQ motto
"Jogging through the forest is pleasant, as is relaxing by the fire with a glass of gentle Bordeaux and discussing one's travels. Racing is another matter. The frontrunner's mind is filled with an anguished fearfulness, a panic, which drives into pain." - Kenny Moore
"You cannot propel yourself forward by patting yourself on the back." - Anonymous
"Significant problems you face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them." - Albert Einstein
"Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence." - Vince Lombardi
"We can blaze! Become legends in our own time, strike fear in the heart of mediocre talent everywhere! We can scald dogs, put records out of reach! Make the stands gasp as we blow into an unearthly kick from three hundred yards out! We can become God's own messengers delivering the dreaded scrolls! We can race dark Satan himself till he wheezes fiery cinders down the back straightaway! They'll speak our names in hushed tones,'Those guys are animals' they'll say! We can lay it on the line, bust a gut, show them a clean pair of heels. We can sprint the turn on a spring breeze and feel the winter leave our feet!" - John L. Parker, Jr.
"You never fail, you simply produce results. Learn from these." - Anonymous
"Enjoy your pain, you've earned it." - Anonymous
"Winner's don't do different things. Winners do things differently." - Anonymous
"To a runner, a side stich is like a car alarm. It signifies something is wrong, but you ignore it until it goes away." - Anonymous
"We will go to the moon. We will go to the moon and do other things, not because they are easy but because they are hard." - John F. Kennedy, Jr.
"Those who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those doing it." -Michael Johnson's trainer
"Our bodies are our gardens - our wills are our gardeners" - William Shakespeare
"Good judgment is the result of experience and experience is the result of bad judgment." - Anonymous
"The only way to define your limits is by going beyond them." - Anonymous
"Excess, upon occasion can be exhilarating, because it prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit." - Somerset Maugham
"Self-conquest is the greatest of victories." - Anonymous
"Champions do not become champions when they win the event, but in the hours, weeks, months and years that they spend preparing for it. The victorious performance is merely the demonstration of their championship character." - T. Alan Armstrong
"A certain amount of opposition can be of great help to a man- Kites rise against, not with the wind." - John Neal
"Obstacles are those freightening things that become visible when we take our eyes off our goals." - Henry Ford
"Remember, the second most important thing to choosing the right shoe, is choosing the left one." - High school coach to his runners
"The man in the arena... who at best knows the triumphs of high achievement and who at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place will never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat." - President Teddy Roosevelt
"Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself." - William Faulkner
"He's a well-balanced athlete; he has a chip on both shoulders." - Derek Redmond, on Linford Christie
"The will to run is not as nearly as important as the will to prepare." - Anonymous
"When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on." - President Teddy Roosevelt
"Somewhere in the world someone is training when you are not. When you race him, he will win." - Tom Fleming
"Those who say that I will lose and am finished will have to run over my body to beat me." - Said Aouita
"It is true that speed kills. In distance running, it kills anyone who does not have it." - Brooks Johnson
"Perseverance: is not a long race; it is many short races one after another." - Walter Elliott
"Superficial goals lead to superficial results." - Attila the Hun
"Belief is the thermoststat that regulates all success." - Anonymous
"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." - Glenn Cunningham
"More sweat in training, less blood in battle" - sign over a PT field at Ft. Benning, GA
"Sweat cleanses from the inside. It comes from places a shower will never reach." - Dr. George Sheehan
"I just run as hard as I can for 20 miles, and then race." - Steve Jones
"Some running is good, more is better, and too much is just enough." - Anonymous
"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
"It hurts up to a point and then it doesn't get any worse." - Ann Trason
"The more I talk to athletes, the more convinced I become that the method of training is relatively unimportant. There are many ways to the top, and the training method you choose is just the one that suits you best. No, the important thing is the attitude of the athlete, the desire to get to the top." - Herb Elliot
"If you race merely for the tributes from others, you will be at the mercy of their expectations." - Scott Tinley
"If you start to feel good during an ultra, dont' worry you will get over it." - Gene Thibeault
"Start slow, then taper off." - Walt Stack
"DO or DO NOT. There is no TRY" - Jedi Master Yoda (Star Wars)
"One cannot consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." - Helen Keller
"Hard training, easy combat; easy training, hard combat." - Russian General Marshal Suvorov
"I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have." - Thomas Jefferson
"Live clean and train hard." - JoeDom
"Train to near death, rest, repeat." - Anonymous on RST
"If you want to run, then run a mile. If you want to experience another life, run a marathon." - Emil Zatopek
"The marathon can humble you." - Bill Rodgers
"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
