Inspirational Running Quotes - Page 5

• 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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• Just put one foot in front of the other.

  Austin Peck

  Running, Perseverance, Hiking

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• Run hard, be strong, think big!

  Percy Cerutty

  Motivational, Fitness, Running

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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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• Ask yourself: 'Can I give more?'. The answer is usually: 'Yes'.

  Paul Tergat

  Motivational, Running, Athlete

  "Coeurs d'athlètes". Sport/Documentary, 2003.

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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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• By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, Motivational, Softball

  Benjamin Franklin, The Secret Libraries (2016). “Benjamin Franklin Quotes... Vol. 23: Motivational and Inspirational Life Quotes by Benjamin Franklin”

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• Failing to prepare is preparing to fail.

  John Wooden

  Basketball, Running, Motivational Sports

  John Wooden, Swen Nater (2006). “John Wooden's UCLA Offense”, p.93, Human Kinetics

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

  Juha Vaatainen

  Running, Marathon, Stadiums

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• If you run, you are a runner. It doesn't matter how fast or how far. It doesn't matter if today is your first day or if you've been running for twenty years. There is no test to pass, no license to earn, no membership card to get. You just run.

  John Bingham

  Running, Years, Tests

  John Bingham (1999). “The Courage To Start: A Guide To Running for Your Life”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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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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• In golf, as in life, you get out of it what you put into it.

  Sam Snead

  Running, Golf, Track

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  Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.

  Lou Holtz

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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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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• Racing teaches us to challenge ourselves. It teaches us to push beyond where we thought we could go. It helps us to find out what we are made of. This is what we do. This is what it's all about.

  PattiSue Plumer

  Inspirational, Motivational, Running

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  Running is a road to self-awareness and reliance-you can push yourself to extremes and learn the harsh reality of your physical and mental limitations or coast quietly down a solitary path watching the earth spin beneath your feet.

  Doris Brown Heritage

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

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• Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up, it knows it must outrun the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning in Africa, a lion wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the slowest gazelle, or it will starve. It doesn't matter whether you're the lion or a gazelle-when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.

  Christopher McDougall

  Inspirational, Motivational, Running

  Christopher McDougall (2010). “Born to Run: The hidden tribe, the ultra-runners, and the greatest race the world has never seen”, p.13, Profile Books

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• Good things come slow, especially in distance running.

  Bill Dellinger

  Running, Giving Up, Distance

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• Get out well, but not too quickly, move through the field, be comfortable. Strategy-wise, go with your strengths. If you don't have a great finish, you must get away to win. I've always found it effective to make a move just before the crest of a hill. You get away just a little and you're gone before your opponent gets over the top. Also, around a tight bend, take off like holy hell. I've done that a number of times. You should not be flying down the home straight. Most of your efforts should have been put forth earlier.

  John Treacy

  Wise, Running, Moving

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• It's unnatural for people to run around the city streets unless they are thieves or victims. It makes people nervous to see someone running. I know that when I see someone running on my street, my instincts tell me to let the dog go after him.

  Mike Royko

  Running, Dog, Cities

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• Reality can destroy the dream; why shouldn't the dream destroy reality?

  George A. Moore

  Love, Running, Dream

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  The battles that count aren't the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself - the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us - that's where it's at.

  Jesse Owens

  Inspirational, Motivational, Running

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Bid me run, and I will strive with things impossible.

  William Shakespeare

  Running, Impossible, Strive

  William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Alexander Pope, Richard Farmer, Samuel Johnson (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare”, p.45

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