Training For A Marathon Quotes - Page 3

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

  George A. Sheehan

  Running, Real, Voice

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• The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win.

  Roger Bannister

  Motivational, Success, Fitness

  "The Spirituality Of Running" by Jim Friedrich, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 5, 2016.

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• You have to wonder at times what you're doing out there. Over the years, I've given myself a thousand reasons to keep running, but it always comes back to where it started. It comes down to self-satisfaction and a sense of achievement.

  Steve Prefontaine

  Motivational, Success, Softball

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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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• 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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• Top results are achieved only through pain. But eventually you like this pain.

  Juha Vaatainen

  Pain, Results, Great Running

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• You shall become the person you are.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Jogging, Great Running, Distance Running

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, p.219, Vintage

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• I think comedy is the most difficult thing in the world, I really do.

  Martha Graham

  Thinking, World, Laziness

  "Martha Graham Reflects on Her Art and a Life in Dance". archive.nytimes.com. March 31, 1985.

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• A lot of people don't realize that not everybody gets high.

  Molly Ringwald

  Depression, Role Models, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It hurts up to a point and then it doesn't get any worse.

  Ann Trason

  Inspirational, Running, Hurt

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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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• Marathon running is a terrible experience: monotonous, heavy, and exhausting.

  Veikko Karvonen

  Motivational, Running, Athlete

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• The mile has all the elements of a drama.

  Roger Bannister

  Running, Drama, Elements

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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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• The freedom of cross country is so primitive. It's woman vs. nature.

  Lynn Jennings

  Running, Country, Crosses

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• I don't think about the miles that are coming down the road, I don't think about the mile I'm on right now, I don't think about the miles I've already covered. I think about what I'm doing right now, just being lost in the moment.

  Ryan Hall

  Running, Thinking, Live In The Moment

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• A lot of people don't realize that about 98 percent of the running I put in is anything but glamorous: 2 percent joyful participation, 98 percent dedication! It's a tough formula. Getting out in the forest in the biting cold and the flattening heat, and putting in kilometer after kilometer.

  Robert de Castella

  Running, Dedication, People

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• Having a true faith is the most difficult thing in the world. Many will try to take it from you.

  Steve Prefontaine

  Motivational, Running, Trying

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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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• Onions make me sad. A lot of people don't realize that.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Depression, Humor

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• Dream barriers look very high until someone climbs them. They are not barriers anymore.

  Lasse Viren

  Motivational, Sports, Running

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• Training for a marathon is much like climbing a ladder. Each ring is a short-term goal that must be met in sequence in order to reach the long-term goal at the top of the ladder.

  Richard Benyo

  Running, Climbing, Order

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• I find that I get a little depressed if I don't move my body each day, so sometimes it's just as simple as walking, and other times it's training for a marathon or some kind of personal goal that I'm trying to meet.

  Ryan Reynolds

  Moving, Simple, Goal

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