Cross Country Motivational Quotes - Page 2

• It hurts up to a point and then it doesn't get any worse.

  Ann Trason

  Inspirational, Running, Hurt

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• You cannot propel yourself forward by patting yourself on the back.

  Steve Prefontaine

  Running, Track, Aviation

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• Stadiums are for spectators. We runners have Nature, and that is much better.

  Juha Vaatainen

  Running, Marathon, Stadiums

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• Good things come slow, especially in distance running.

  Bill Dellinger

  Running, Giving Up, Distance

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  Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

  Babe Ruth

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• 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

  Motivational, Running, Feelings

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• I run because it's my passion, and not just a sport.

  Sasha Azevedo

  Sports, Running, Passion

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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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• 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.

  Steve Prefontaine

  Motivational, Success, Softball

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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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• I always loved running.... It was something you could do by yourself and under your own power.

  Jesse Owens

  Running, Endurance, Track And Field

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• I run because it's my passion, and not just a sport. Every time I walk out the door, I know why I'm going where I'm going and I'm already focused on that special place where I find my peace and solitude. Running, to me, is more than just a physical exercise... it's a consistent reward for victory!

  Sasha Azevedo

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.

  Henry James

  Art, Philosophy, Inspirational Running

  Henry James (1852). “Lectures and miscellanies”, p.124

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• The freedom of cross country is so primitive. It's woman vs. nature.

  Lynn Jennings

  Running, Country, Crosses

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  But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep.

  Robert Frost

  Love, Inspirational, Tattoo

  "Stopping byWoods on a Snowy Evening" l. 13 (1923)

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• Onions make me sad. A lot of people don't realize that.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Depression, Humor

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• A lot of people don't realize that not everybody gets high.

  Molly Ringwald

  Depression, Role Models, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The footing was really atrocious. I loved it. I really like Cross Country; you're one with the mud.

  Lynn Jennings

  Running, Country, Mud

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• My motto is: feel the fear and do it anyway.

  Tamara Mellon

  Fear, Motto, Feels

  Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. February 18, 2011.

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• The woods are lovely, dark, and deep but I have promises to keep...

  Robert Frost

  Tattoo, Running, Taken

  "Stopping byWoods on a Snowy Evening" l. 13 (1923)

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• Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

  John Ruskin

  Nature, Rain, Sunshine

  "Inner Journey". Book by Ratna Joshi (p. 99), January 14, 2010.

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• The marathon can humble you.

  Bill Rodgers

  Running, Humble, Boston Marathon

  Bill Rodgers, Matthew Shepatin (2013). “Marathon Man: My 26.2-Mile Journey from Unknown Grad Student to the Top of the Running World”, p.274, Macmillan

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• Those who say that I will lose and am finished will have to run over my body to beat me.

  Said Aouita

  Motivational, Running, Athlete

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• People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Inspirational, Perseverance, Business

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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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