Track Team Quotes

Don't bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself.

William Faulkner

Inspirational, Running, Dream

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Run like hell and get the agony over with.

Clarence DeMar

Inspirational, Running, Agony

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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 strategy...It is not age; it is not diet. It is the will to succeed.

Jacqueline Gareau

Motivational, Fitness, Running

"Diversification and Discipline Are Key to Investing in Gold" by Frank Holmes, www.businessinsider.com. August 21, 2014.

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Good things come slow, especially in distance running.

Bill Dellinger

Running, Giving Up, Distance

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Trample the weak. Hurdle the dead.

Attila the Hun

Funny Running, Cross Country Running, Weak

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I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.

Booker T. Washington

Inspirational, Life, Success

Booker T. Washington (1901). “An Autobiography: The Story of My Life and Work, the Original Brought Up-to-date with Over Half a Hundred Full Page Photo and Halftone Engravings and Drawings by Frank Beard”

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There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

John Ruskin

Change, Running, Rainy Day

"The Use Of Life". Book by John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury. Chapter 4: "Recreation", 1894.

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Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.

Will Rogers

Inspirational, Funny, Life

"The Graduation Speech I'd Give, if Anyone Asked" by Karina Bland, www.azcentral.com. June 03, 2015.

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I run to see who has the most guts.

Steve Prefontaine

Sports, Running, Track

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Cross Country: No half times, no time outs, no substitutions. It must be the only true sport.

Chuck Norris

Sports, Country, Track

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Do a little more each day than you think you possibly can.

Lowell Thomas

Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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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

Running, Mean, Winning

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The will to win means nothing without the will to prepare.

Juma Ikangaa

Motivational, Running, Mean

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The five S's of sports training are: stamina, speed, strength, skill, and spirit; but the greatest of these is spirit.

Ken Doherty

Inspirational, Motivational, Strength

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

Confucius

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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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

Inspirational, Running, Track And Field

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Tomorrow is another day, and there will be another battle!

Sebastian Coe

Inspirational, Running, Battle

"Olympian ambitions" by Clare Balding, www.theguardian.com. February 12, 2005.

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It is true that speed kills. In distance running, it kills anyone who does not have it.

Brooks Johnson

Running, Distance, Track

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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.

Paavo Nurmi

Motivational, Sports, Running

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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.

Alan Armstrong

Sports, Running, Athlete

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It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.

Seneca the Younger

Inspirational, Success, Uplifting

"Moral Letters to Lucilius (Letter LXXXIV)". Book by Seneca the Younger, 1920.

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A race is a work of art that people can look at and be affected in as many ways they're capable of understanding.

Steve Prefontaine

Motivational, Running, Art

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To win without risk is to triumph without glory.

Pierre Corneille

Inspirational, Motivational, Strength

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Talking of first times Stephanie, I bet your first time was really memorable for you and the captain ot the football team .. and the basketball team .. and the softball team, the track team, the chess club and the pool boy!

Chris Jericho

Basketball, Softball, Football

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I've been running since high school. My boyfriend was on the track team, and I'd run with him.

Jane McGonigal

Running, Team, School

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