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.
Some people create with words or with music or with a brush and paints. I like to make something beautiful when I run
Hurdlers are sprinters with a problem. They're not satisfied just to sprint. Anybody can sprint, some not as well as others of course, but anybody can sprint. Not everybody can run hurdles. There's an extra dimension involved. Hurdlers would make a good subject for a thesis in psychology - they are of apersuasion that just needs an extra dimension.
The battles that count aren't the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself - the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us - that's where it's at.
Mental will is a muscle that needs exercise, just like the muscles of the body.
Ask yourself: 'Can I give more?'. The answer is usually: 'Yes'.
The real competition is against the little voice inside you that wants to quit
If you fail to prepare, prepare to fail.
The river is constantly turning and bending and you never know where it's going to go and where you'll wind up. Following the bend in the river and staying on your own path means that you are on the right track. Don't let anyone deter you from that.
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.
Anyone who has lost track of time when using a computer knows the propensity to dream, the urge to make dreams come true and the tendency to miss lunch.
And my only rule being if when I wake in the morning I'm looking forward to the things that I have to do that day, then I'm on the right track.
I don't train. I just run my 3-15 miles a day.
A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.
Find the good. It's all around you. Find it, showcase it and you'll start believing in it.
One chance is all you need.
There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.
There's no such thing as bad weather - only the wrong clothes.
The will to win means nothing without the will to prepare.
Success isn't how far you got, but the distance you traveled from where you started.
Cross Country: No half times, no time outs, no substitutions. It must be the only true sport.
Few of us know what we are capable of doing... we have never pushed ourselves hard enough to find out. Alfred
In the spring or warmer weather when the snow thaws in the woods the tracks of winter reappear on slender pedestals and the snow reveals in palimpsest old buried wanderings, struggles, scenes of death. Tales of winter brought to light again like time turned back upon itself.
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
Hope and change? We're not doing that anymore. They're doing attack and blame. And so, I just think people are going to see through this. They want real leadership. They want us to get this country on the right track.
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