Track Quotes

• I'm going to go and leave my blood all over the track.

  Nick Rogers

  Motivational, Running, Blood

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• When you follow your bliss a kind of track opens up, that's always been there, waiting for you. And the life that you should be living, is the one that you will be living.

  Joseph Campbell

  Life, Waiting, Kind

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• A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.

  John Burroughs

  Inspirational, Positive, Running

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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, Running, Fitness

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  If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

  Lynda Barry

  Love, Valentines Day, Heartbreak

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• A lot of people run a race to see who is fastest. I run to see who has the most guts, who can punish himself into exhausting pace, and then at the end, punish himself even more.

  Steve Prefontaine

  Running, Pain, Race

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  I like the night. Without the dark, we'd never see the stars.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Life, Beauty, Beautiful

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

  Ranulph Fiennes

  Running, Adventure, Weather

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

  Steve Prefontaine

  Running, Aviation, Airborne

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• It is true that speed kills. In distance running, it kills anyone who does not have it.

  Brooks Johnson

  Running, Distance, Doe

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• Run like hell and get the agony over with.

  Clarence DeMar

  Inspirational, Running, Agony

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• All pressure is self-inflicted. It's what you make of it or how you let it rub off on you.

  Sebastian Coe

  Motivational, Self, Pressure

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• Better to do a little well, then a great deal badly.

  Socrates

  Motivational, Littles, Deals

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

  PattiSue Plumer

  Motivational, Running, Gun

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

  Sam Snead

  Running, Golf, Next

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  Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Life, Change, Wise

  1952 In Time, 6 Oct.

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• All top international athletes wake up in the morning feeling tired and go to bed feeling very tired.

  Brendan Foster

  Motivational, Running, Morning

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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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• Some people create with words or with music or with a brush and paints. I like to make something beautiful when I run. I like to make people stop and say, 'I've never seen anyone run like that before.' It's more than just a race, it's a style. It's doing something better than anyone else. It's being creative.

  Steve Prefontaine

  Motivational, Beautiful, Running

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• I run to see who has the most guts.

  Steve Prefontaine

  Sports, Running, Half Marathons

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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, Running, Ideas

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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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