Running Quotes - Page 9

• Believe that you can run farther or faster. Believe that you're young enough, old enough, strong enough, and so on to accomplish everything you want to do. Don't let worn-out beliefs stop you from moving beyond yourself.

  John Bingham

  Strong, Believe, Moving

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

  Alberto Salazar

  Softball, Doubt, Coward

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• Life is a positive-sum game. Everyone from the gold medallist to the last finisher can rejoice in a personal victory.

  George A. Sheehan

  Games, Victory, Gold

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• Human beings are made up of flesh and blood, and a miracle fiber called courage.

  George S. Patton

  Courage, Blood, Miracle

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• Life doesn't run away from nobody. Life runs at people.

  Joe Frazier

  Motivational, People, Boxing

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• If you're trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I've had them; everybody has had them. But obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.

  Michael Jordan

  Inspirational, Basketball, Wisdom

  Michael Jordan (1994). “I can't accept not trying: Michael Jordan on the pursuit of excellence”

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  Besides pride, loyalty, discipline, heart, and mind, confidence is the key to all the locks.

  Joe Paterno

  Sports, Loyalty, Heart

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• The human spirit is indomitable. No one can ever say you must not run faster than this or jump higher than that. There will never be a time when the human spirit will not be able to better existing records.

  Roger Bannister

  Giving Up, Able, Records

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• For me, running is a lifestyle and an art. I'm more interested in the magic of it than the mechanics.

  Lorraine Moller

  Art, Magic, Lifestyle

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• There is nothing more certain than the defeat of the man who gives up.

  George A. Sheehan

  Inspirational, Motivational, Fitness

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

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• [Scientific testing] can't determine how the mind will tolerate pain in a race. Sometimes, I say, 'Today I can die.'

  Gelindo Bordin

  Pain, Race, Mind

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• That is the sort of race which one really enjoys - to feel at one's peak on the day when it is necessary, and to be able to produce the pace at the very finish. It gives a thrill which compensates for months of training and toiling. But it is the sort of race that one wants only about once a season.

  Jack Lovelock

  Race, Giving, Training

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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, Athlete, Body

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• Road racing is rock 'n roll; track is Carnegie Hall.

  Marty Liquori

  Rocks, Track, Racing

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• It's probably the toughest distance race in the world to win. World class runners from 1500m to the marathon contest it and instead of just three runners from each country, like in the Olympics or World Championships, in the senior men's race there are nine.

  Paul Tergat

  Senior, Country, Distance

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• The mile has a classic symmetry....It's a play in four acts.

  John Landy

  Play, Track, Four

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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, Feelings, Racing

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• The difference between a jogger and a runner is an entry blank.

  George A. Sheehan

  Differences, Jogging, Track Runners

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• Running is the greatest metaphor for life, because you get out of it what you put into it.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Motivational, Fitness, Exercise

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• It's very hard in the beginning to understand that the whole idea is not to beat the other runners. Eventually you learn that the competition is against the little voice inside you that wants you to quit.

  George A. Sheehan

  Motivational, Ideas, Voice

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• Tomorrow is another day, and there will be another battle!

  Sebastian Coe

  Inspirational, Battle, Track And Field

  "Olympian ambitions" by Clare Balding, www.theguardian.com. February 12, 2005.

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• I believe that the Good Lord gave us a finite number of heartbeats and I'm damned if I'm going to use up mine running up and down a street.

  Neil Armstrong

  Fitness, Believe, Health

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

  Steve Prefontaine

  Track, Aviation, Airborne

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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, Track And Field, Want

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• I haven't seen too many American distance men on the international scene willing to take risks. I saw some U.S. women in Barcelona willing to risk, more than men. The Kenyans risk. Steve Prefontaine risked. I risked - I went through the first half of the Tokyo race just a second off my best 5000 time.

  Billy Mills

  Distance, Men, Race

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