Inspirational Running Quotes - Page 10

• God determines how fast you're going to run; I can help only with the mechanics.

  Bill Bowerman

  Running, Helping, Mechanic

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• I think there's only one sensible place for a person to be at 5:30 in the morning. That's in bed. And what am I doing? I'm out running. And I completely hate this.

  Derek Clayton

  Running, Morning, Hate

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• The important thing is the attitude of the athlete, the desire to get to the top.

  Herb Elliott

  Running, Attitude, Athlete

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• No matter how old I get, the race remains one of life's most rewarding experiences. My times become slower and slower, but the experience of the race is unchanged: each race a drama, each race a challenge, each race stretching me in one way or another, and each race telling me more about myself and others.

  George A. Sheehan

  Running, Drama, Race

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• To be great, one does not have to be mad, but definitely it helps.

  Percy Cerutty

  Giving Up, Mad, Doe

  Percy Wells Cerutty (1964). “Middle-distance running”

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• Running is 80 percent mental.

  Joan Benoit

  Running, Percent

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• No negative thoughts cross my mind on race day. When I look into their eyes, I know I'm going to beat them.

  Danny Harris

  Motivational, Running, Eye

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• A star can win any game; a team can win every game.

  Jack Ramsay

  Running, Stars, Team

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• Running is ultimately a personal experience. It is a revival of the spirit, a private oasis for the thirsty mind. Yet, its healing power only increases in the presence of others. Run together and the oasis grows cooler and more satisfying.

  Amby Burfoot

  Running, Healing, Oasis

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• Sweat cleanses from the inside. It comes from places a shower will never reach.

  George A. Sheehan

  Running, Sweat, Showers

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• The most beautiful motion is that which accomplishes the greatest results with the least amount of effort.

  Plato

  Beautiful, Running, Effort

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• Start slowly, then taper off.

  Walt Stack

  Running

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• The coach's main job is 20 percent technical and 80 percent inspirational.

  Franz Stampfl

  Running, Jobs, Coaches

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• I lean with the hill. I know I'm doing it right if it feels like I'm going to fall on my face but I don't.

  Ed Eyestone

  Running, Fall, Faces

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• If you put down a good, solid foundation and build one room after another, pretty soon you have a house. You build in your speedwork, your pace and increase your ability to run races and think races out. Then it's possible to run the way we do.

  Rod Dixon

  Running, Thinking, Race

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• Some might say that it's easier to be the runner than the runner's family.

  Robert de Castella

  Running, Might, Easier

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• I think if you're open-minded, the road will take you where it takes you. If you're closed, you might not get to go where the road is heading.

  Russell Simmons

  Running, Journey, Thinking

  FaceBook post by Russell Simmons from Sep 20, 2015

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• There is something about the ritual of the race - putting on the number, lining up, being timed - that brings out the best in us.

  Grete Waitz

  Running, Race, Numbers

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• I think that diversity is key for the next American entrepreneurs. They want to be a part of this society where there is so much diversity they have to have people from all the experiences.

  Russell Simmons

  Thinking, Keys, People

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• Endurance? You've only got to get out there and do it. Face up to it: man was meant to run.

  Percy Cerutty

  Running, Men, Endurance

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• The desire to run comes from deep within us — from the unconscious, the intuitive, the instinctive. And that desire becomes a passion when the runner learns to race. Then, the race becomes all — the lovemaking of the runner.

  George A. Sheehan

  Running, Desire, Deep Within

  "Dr. George Sheehan on getting fit & feeling great".

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• You can't win them all but you can try.

  Babe Didrikson Zaharias

  Inspirational, Baseball, Golf

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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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• I cannot have survival as my only goal. That would be too boring. My goal is to come back in my best running form. It is good for me to have that goal; it will help me.

  Ludmila Engquist

  Running, Goal, Survival

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• We all know that if you run, you are pretty much choosing a life of success because of it.

  Deena Kastor

  Running, Knows, Ifs

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