Inspirational Runner Quotes - Page 4

• Mental will is a muscle that needs exercise, just like the muscles of the body.

  Lynn Jennings

  Motivational, Sports, Running

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• I had as many doubts as anyone else. Standing on the starting line, we're all cowards.

  Alberto Salazar

  Softball, Running, Doubt

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

  Juma Ikangaa

  Motivational, Running, Mean

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• A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.

  John Burroughs

  Inspirational, Positive, Running

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• We run, not because we think it is doing us good, but because we enjoy it and cannot help ourselves...The more restricted our society and work become, the more necessary it will be to find some outlet for this craving for freedom. No one can say, 'You must not run faster than this, or jump higher than that.' The human spirit is indomitable.

  Roger Bannister

  Motivational, Sports, Running

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• You have to forget your last marathon before you try another. Your mind can't know what's coming.

  Frank Shorter

  Inspirational, Running, Mind

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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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• The obsession with running is really an obsession with the potential for more and more life.

  George A. Sheehan

  Running, Obsession, Track Runners

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• It doesn't matter whether you are a lion or a gazelle. When the sun comes up, you better be running.

  Abe Gubegna

  Running, Athletic, Matter

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• American naturalist John Burroughs put it, “A man can fail many times, but he isn’t a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.

  Jeff Olson

  Running, Failure, Responsibility

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• Life is often compared to a marathon, but I think it is more like being a sprinter; long stretches of hard work punctuated by brief moments in which we are given the opportunity to perform at our best.

  Michael Johnson

  Life, Motivational, Sports

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• If you become restless, speed up. If you become winded, slow down. You climb the mountain in an equilibrium between restlessness and exhaustion.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Running, Mountain, Speed

  "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance". Book by Robert M. Pirsig, 1974.

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• Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Death, Running

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 2, sc. 2, l. 30

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• It's at the borders of pain and suffering that the men are separated from the boys.

  Emil Zatopek

  Running, Pain, Not Giving Up

  Attributed to Emil Zatopek in "Citius, Altius, Fortius" ("Swifter, Higher, Stronger"), an unsigned article from Khaleej Times, August 8, 2008.

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• Success isn't how far you got, but the distance you traveled from where you started.

  Steve Prefontaine

  Running, Distance, Track

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• If you want to win a race you have to go a little berserk.

  Bill Rodgers

  Running, Winning, Race

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• Learn to run when feeling the pain, then push harder.

  William Sigei

  Running, Pain, Feelings

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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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