Running
Sayings
--Pre Quotes
To
give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift.
"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 then just a
race, it's a style. It's doing something better then anyone else. It's being
creative."
"Having
a true faith is the most difficult thing in the world. Many will try to take it
from you."
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.
Something
inside of me just said 'Hey, wait a minute, I want to beat him,' and I just
took off.
You
have to wonder at times what you're doing out there. Over the years, I've given
myself a thousand reasons to keep running, but it always comes back to where it
started. It comes down to self-satisfaction and a sense of achievement.
What
kind of crazy nut would spend two or three hours a day just running?
(This is how Steve reacted in Junior High when he saw the High School Cross
country team running)
"A race is a work of
art that people can look at and be affected in as many ways they're capable of
understanding."
"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."
--Other Quotes
"Man
imposes his own limitations, don't set any"
-Anthony
Bailey
"Human
beings are made up of flesh and blood, and a miracle fiber called courage"
-George
Patton
Vision
without action is a daydream.Action
without vision is a nightmare.
-Japanese Proverb
Every
morning in
It knows it must outrun the fastest lion or it will be killed.
Every morning in
It knows that 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.
(But,
unless you're a runner, you won't understand.)
-Anon
Real
athletes run others just play games
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
The
greatest pleasure in life, is doing the things people
say we cannot do.
-- Walter Bagehot
My
feeling is that any day I am too busy to run is a day that I am too busy.
--John Bryant
Cowards
die many times before their deaths, the valiant never taste death but once.
--Julius Ceaser
The
nine inches right here; set it straight and you can beat anybody in the world.
--Sebastian Coe
(as he said this Coe held his fingers up to his head)
The
great thing about athletics is that it's like poker, sometimes you know what's
in your hand and it may be a load of rubbish, but you've got to keep up the
front.
--Sebastian Coe
Tomorrow
is another day, and there will be another battle!
--Sebastian Coe
(a few minutes after a 2nd place finish in the 800m Olympic Games final in
Moscow 1980,
he later won the 1500m, he had been favored to win the 800m)
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
Run
like hell and get the agony over with.
--Clarence DeMar
The
five S's 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
Don't
bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors.
Try to be better than yourself.
--William Faulkner
You
have a choice. You can throw in the towel, or you can use it to wipe the sweat
off of your face.
--Gatorade
Ability
is what you are capable of doing.
Motivation determines what you do.
Attitude determines how well you do it.
--Lou Holtz
It
is true that speed kills. In distance running, it kills anyone who does not
have it.
--Brooks Johnson
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
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
When
you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
--Theodore Roosevelt
You
can fight without ever winning,
but never ever, win without a fight.
--Rush (the Band)
I
had as many doubts as anyone else. Standing on the starting line, we're all
cowards.
-- Alberto Salazar
"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
--Bob
Kennedy
It
is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.
--Seneca
Do
a little more each day than you think you possibly can.
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Good
judgement is the result of experience, experience is
the result of bad judgment.
--Mark Twain
Stadiums
are for spectators.We runners have
nature and that is much better.
--Juha Vaatainen
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 real and relatively simple but it ain't easy.
--Mark Will-Weber
Once
you're beat mentally, you might as well not even go to the starting line.
--Todd Williams
"The will to win is
worthless, without the will to prepare."
"Cross
Country: No half times, no time outs, no substitutions. It must be the only
true sport"
"Running is a mental
sport...and we're all insane!"
Learn to run when feeling
the pain: then push harder.
"If you want to win a
race, you have to go a little berserk."
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.
If you want to make God
laugh, just try and make plans for the future.
- Ron Litzler
The true test of a man's
character is what he does when he knows he won't get caught.
-Anonymous
Nothing gives one person so
much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all
circumstances.
-Thomas Jefferson
"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."
""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
"It's rude to count people as you pass them. Out
loud."
-Adidas ad
"Cross Country -
Finally a practical use for golf courses."
"Some people don't have the guts for distance racing. The polite term for
them is sprinters."
"Cross Country philosophy...the faster you run the faster you're
done."
"Pain is only temporary,
Pride is forever,
Pain passes with time and Time passes,
therefore Pain is just a strain on the Brain without Refrain,
and that's why Cross Country runners are Insane."
-t shirt
"Listen to your body. Do not be a blind and deaf tenant."
-Dr. George Sheehan