Track Runners Quotes

• Champions do not become champions when they win the event, but in the hours, weeks, months and years they spend preparing for it. The victorious performance itself is merely the demonstration of their championship character.

  Alan Armstrong

  Sports, Running, Athlete

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• There's no such thing as bad weather - only the wrong clothes.

  Billy Connolly

  Being Happy, Running, Adventure

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• Attitude determines how well you do it.

  Lou Holtz

  Motivational Sports, Attitude, Exercise

  Lou Holtz (2009). “Winning Every Day: The Game Plan for Success”, p.14, Harper Collins

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

  Juma Ikangaa

  Motivational, Running, Mean

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• If you can't win, make the one ahead of you break the record.

  John McKeithen

  Sports, Running, Winning

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• Good things come slow, especially in distance running.

  Bill Dellinger

  Running, Giving Up, Distance

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• Do a little more each day than you think you possibly can.

  Lowell Thomas

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• There's no such thing as bad weather, only inappropriate clothing

  Ranulph Fiennes

  Running, Adventure, Weather

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• 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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• 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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  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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• 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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• To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift.

  Steve Prefontaine

  Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership

  "Pre: Americas Greatest Running Legend, Steve Prefontaine". Book by Tom Jordan, 1977.

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• The gun goes off and everthing changes... the world changes... and nothing else really matters.

  PattiSue Plumer

  Motivational, Running, Gun

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

  Steve Prefontaine

  Running, Track, Aviation

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• The five S's of sports training are: stamina, speed, strength, skill, and spirit; but the greatest of these is spirit.

  Ken Doherty

  Inspirational, Motivational, Strength

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

  Lynn Jennings

  Motivational, Sports, Running

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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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• Run like hell and get the agony over with.

  Clarence DeMar

  Inspirational, Running, Agony

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• Go in any direction..seeking out new sights just on the strength of your feet and the courage of your lungs.

  Paula Radcliffe

  Running, Feet, Sight

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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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• Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.

  Henry James

  Art, Philosophy, Inspirational Running

  Henry James (1852). “Lectures and miscellanies”, p.124

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• Don't bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself.

  William Faulkner

  Inspirational, Running, Dream

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• I always loved running.... It was something you could do by yourself and under your own power.

  Jesse Owens

  Running, Endurance, Track And Field

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