Inspirational Running Quotes - Page 6

• The marathon is a charismatic event. It has everything. It has drama. It has competition. Every jogger can't dream of being an Olympic champion, but he can dream of finishing a marathon.

  Fred Lebow

  Running, Dream, Drama

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  Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit. We are all the same in this notion: The potential for greatness lives within each of us.

  Wilma Rudolph

  Inspirational, Motivational, Running

  "50 stunning Olympic moments No35: Wilma Rudolph's triple gold in 1960" by Rob Bagchi, www.theguardian.com. June 1, 2012.

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• Set small goals along the way and don't be overwhelmed by the process.

  Kara Goucher

  Running, Goal, Way

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• If you want to achieve a high goal, you're going to have to take some chances.

  Alberto Salazar

  Running, Courage, Motivational Sports

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• Get out there and do what you love!

  Kara Goucher

  Running, What You Love

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• Winning isn't everything. Wanting to is.

  Catfish Hunter

  Success, Sports, Running

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• Anything is possible, but you have to believe and you have to fight.

  Lance Armstrong

  Running, Believe, Fighting

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• Keep your dream in front of you. Never let it go regardless of how farfetched it might seem.

  Hal Higdon

  Running, Dream, Let It Go

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• To succeed you have to believe in something with such a passion that it becomes a reality.

  Anita Roddick

  Inspirational, Success, Running

  Anita Roddick (1994). “Body and soul: profits with principles, the amazing success story of Anita Roddick & the Body Shop”, Three Rivers Press

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• If you ever get a second chance in life for something, you've got to go all the way.

  Lance Armstrong

  Motivational, Perseverance, Determination

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• Ninety-eight percent of success is in the head and the heart.

  Cathy Ferguson

  Success, Running, Heart

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• Running is my church.

  Joan Van Ark

  Motivational, Running, Church

  Knots Landing Interview, www.knotslanding.net. November 29, 2017.

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• It's not about speed and gold medals. It's about refusing to be stopped.

  Amby Burfoot

  Running, Gold, Speed

  Amby Burfoot (2000). “The Runner's Guide to the Meaning of Life: What 35 Years of Running Have Taught Me About Winning, Losing, Happiness, Humility, and the Human Heart”, p.77, Rodale

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• Build step by step. Push yourself, but not too hard. Learn. Keep it fun.

  Matt Fitzgerald

  Running, Fun, Steps

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• Every run is a great run!

  Sasha Azevedo

  Running

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• Sometimes we become so focused on the finish line, that we fail to find joy in the journey.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Journey, Joy, Lines

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• Finland has produced so many brilliant distance runners because back home it costs $2.50 a gallon for gas.

  Esa Tikkanen

  Inspirational, Funny, Running

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• Feel the fear and do it anyway.

  Susan Jeffers

  Inspirational, Motivational, Running

  Susan Jeffers, Ph.D. (2007). “Embracing Uncertainty: Breakthrough Methods for Achieving Peace of Mind When Facing the Unknown”, p.3, Macmillan

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• There are as many reasons for running as there are days in the year, years in my life. But mostly I run because I am an animal and a child, an artist and a saint. So, too, are you. Find your own play, your own self-renewing compulsion, and you will become the person you are meant to be.

  George A. Sheehan

  Motivational, Fitness, Running

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• A running machine, that glides over mud, crud and goop.

  Ed Eyestone

  Running, Machines, Mud

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• Some runners judge performance by whether they won or lost. Others define success or failure by how fast they ran. Only you can judge your performance. Avoid letting others sit in judgment of you.

  Hal Higdon

  Running, Judging, Judgment

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• In running it is man against himself, the cruelest of opponents. The other runners are not the real enemies. His adversary lies within him, in his ability with brain and heart to master himself and his emotions.

  Glenn Cunningham

  Sports, Running, Lying

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• I limbered up just a little before entering the stadium, and even so I felt a twinge in my thigh, no doubt the fruit of my imagination. And I went back to the massage room so that my faithful Morizot could take the trouble off my muscles. This soothed me considerably and I thought I was back to a normal state until somebody summoned me to the starting line. It was like feeling a blade go through my flesh.

  Jules Ladoumegue

  Running, Imagination, Feelings

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• I think some of the most celebrated moments in human achievement should be those times when everything is going against a person and they are down in the dumps but they simply choose to get up. That's real greatness!

  Ryan Hall

  Running, Real, Greatness

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• No one knows the fear in a front runner's mind more than me. When you set off at a cracking pace for four or five laps and find that your main rivals are still breathing down your neck, that's when you start to panic.

  Ron Clarke

  Running, Breathing, Mind

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