Track Running Quotes

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

  PattiSue Plumer

  Motivational, Running, Gun

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

  John Landy

  Running, Play, Track

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• One chance is all you need.

  Jesse Owens

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Success isn't how far you got, but the distance you traveled from where you started.

  Steve Prefontaine

  Running, Distance, Track

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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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• American naturalist John Burroughs put it, “A man can fail many times, but he isn’t a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.

  Jeff Olson

  Running, Failure, Responsibility

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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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• 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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• My thoughts before a big race are usually pretty simple. I tell myself: Get out of the blocks, run your race, stay relaxed. If you run your race, you'll win... channel your energy. Focus.

  Carl Lewis

  Basketball, Sports, Running

  Carl Lewis, Jeffrey Marx (1992). “Inside track: my professional life in amateur track and field”, Fireside

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• Some people create with words or with music or with a brush and paints. I like to make something beautiful when I run

  Steve Prefontaine

  Beautiful, Running, People

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• To win without risk is to triumph without glory.

  Pierre Corneille

  Inspirational, Motivational, Strength

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• When you put yourself on the line in a race and expose yourself to the unknown, you learn things about yourself that are very exciting.

  Doris Brown Heritage

  Running, Race, Track And Field

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• Now if you are going to win any battle you have to do one thing. You have to make the mind run the body. Never let the body tell the mind what to do. The body will always give up. It is always tired morning, noon, and night. But the body is never tired if the mind is not tired. When you were younger the mind could make you dance all night, and the body was never tired... You've always got to make the mind take over and keep going.

  George S. Patton

  Inspirational, Motivational, Running

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• To describe the agony of a marathon to someone who's never run it is like trying to explain color to someone who was born blind.

  Jerome Drayton

  Inspirational, Motivational, Running

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• The real purpose of running isn't to win a race, it's to test the limits of the human heart.

  Bill Bowerman

  Running, Real, Heart

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• You must see yourself run the race over and over, time and time again. You must put yourself in critical positions and see how you would react in those positions before the race so when and if they do happen, the feedback is automatic.

  Rod Milburn

  Motivational, Running, Race

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• The only reason I would take up jogging is so that I could hear heavy breathing again.

  Erma Bombeck

  Funny, Running, Sex

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Winners never quit and quitters never win.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Positive, Moving On

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• Make the mind run the body. Never let the body tell the mind what to do. The body will always give up.

  George S. Patton

  Running, Giving Up, Mind

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• Life is often compared to a marathon, but I think it is more like being a sprinter; long stretches of hard work punctuated by brief moments in which we are given the opportunity to perform at our best.

  Michael Johnson

  Life, Motivational, Sports

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• The real competition is against the little voice inside you that wants to quit

  George A. Sheehan

  Running, Real, Voice

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

  Billy Connolly

  Being Happy, Running, Adventure

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

  Ranulph Fiennes

  Running, Adventure, Weather

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