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• To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice The Gift. - Steve Prefontaine
• I don't just go out there and run. I like to give people watching something exciting. - Steve Prefontaine
• While running, it is rude to count the people you pass out loud.
• Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. - Doug Larson
• A lot of people run a race to see who's the fastest. I run to see who has the most guts. - Steve Prefontaine
• Pain is weakness leaving your body - USMC
• "As a sportsman, I accept being beaten. Everybody tries to be a winner, but only one in a race will win. It's fun to win. But I don’t find unhappiness if I lose." - Kip Keino, two time Olympic gold medallist
• If I am still standing at the end of the race, hit me with a board and knock me down, because that means I didn't run hard enough. - Steve Jones
• Man imposes his own limitations, don't set any. - Anthony Bailey
• Few of us know what we are capable of doing... we have never pushed ourselves hard enough to find out. - Alfred A. Montapert
• There is no such thing as bad weather, just soft people. - Bill Bowerman
• Each day you don't practice is one more day you have to practice to get better.
• The will to win means nothing without the will to prepare. - Juma Ikangaa, Tanzania
• I don’t train. I just run my 3-15 miles a day. - Jack Foster
• Grind it out. Hanging on just one second longer than your competition makes you the winner.
• If you can't win, make the fellow ahead of you break the record.
• 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 Plummer, U.S. Olympian
• The pride you gain is worth the pain. - Dennis Ogilvie
• The problem with big kickers is they often lose to other big kickers. - Harry Groves, Penn State coach
• The idea that you can’t lose contact with the leaders has cut more throats than it has saved. - Arthur Lydiard
• Anyone can run 100 meters. . . . It's the next 4900 that count!
• Hills are speedwork in disguise. - Frank Shorter
• Running hills breaks up your rhythm and forces your muscles to adapt to new stresses. The result? You become stronger. - Eamonn Coghlan
• No negative thoughts cross my mind on race day. When I look into their eyes, I know I'm going to beat them. - Danny Harris
• Tough times don't last but tough people do. - A.C. Green
• "Running is the greatest metaphor for life, because you get out of it what you put into it."
• "Champions are made when no one is watching."
• "If you want to become the best runner you can be, start now. Don’t spend the rest of your life wondering if you can do it." - Priscialla Welch, Olympian & NYC Marathon winner
• "Being the first to cross the finish line makes you a winner in only one phase of life. It's what you do after you cross the line that really counts." - Ralph Boston
• "Running is like life, it's a long journey, but well worth it."
• "My sport is your sports PUNISHMENT!"
• "Cross-Country, finally, a good use of golf courses!"
• "If Cross Country were easy, it would be called football!"
• "Tough times don't last but tough people do." - A.C. Green
• "I've always felt that long, slow distance produces long, slow runners." - Sebastian Coe
• "The polite term for those afraid to run distance is SPRINTERS!"
• Life is short, running makes it seem longer.
• I ran and ran until my muscles burned and my veins pumped battery acid, and then I ran some more.
• "Every morning in Africa a gazelle wakes up. It knows it must move faster than the lion or it will not survive. Every morning a lion wakes up and it knows it must move faster than the slowest gazelle or it will starve. It doesn't matter if you are the lion or the gazelle, when the sun comes up, you better be moving." - Maurice Greene
• Jogging is very beneficial. It's good for your legs and your feet. It's also very good for the ground. It makes it feel needed. - Charles Schulz, Peanuts
• There are runners and then there are runners. There are those that are just out to get a letter. These are the ones that finish a race and go sit down and joke around with friends. Then there are those that are out for the love of running. They are the ones that you will see finishing up a race and then going for another 2-3 mile run. After the run, then they will joke around with friends, but probably while standing.
• On racing... "If it feels good, don't do it."
• "Those who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those doing it." - Michael Johnson's trainer
• "Trample the weak. Hurdle the dead."
• "The only way to define your limits is by going beyond them."
• "Champions do not become champions when they win the event, but in the hours, weeks, months and years that they spend preparing for it. The victorious performance is merely the demonstration of their championship character." - T. Alan Armstrong
• "Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself." - William Faulkner
• Somewhere in the world someone is training when you are not. When you race him, he will win." - Tom Fleming
• "It is true that speed kills. In distance running, it kills anyone who does not have it." - Brooks Johnson
• "It hurts up to a point and then it doesn't get any worse." - Ann Trason
• Obsessed is just a word the lazy use to describe the dedicated."
• Stadiums are for spectators. We runners have nature and that is much better. - Juha Väätäinen, Finland
• The start of a World Cross Country event is like riding a horse in the middle of a buffalo stampede. It's a thrill if you keep up, but one slip and you're nothing but hoof prints. - Ed Eyestone
• The freedom of Cross Country is so primitive. It's woman vs. nature. - Lynn Jennings
• The footing was really atrocious. I loved it. I really like Cross Country; you're one with the mud. - Lynn Jennings
• When I was about 14 or 15, and running in a pretty muddy cross country race, one of my shoes stuck in the mud and came off. Boy, was I wild. To think that I had trained hard for this race and didn't do up my shoelace tightly enough! I really got aggressive with myself, and I found myself starting to pass a lot of runners. As it turned out, I improved something like twenty places in that one race. But I never did get my shoe back. - Rob de Castella
• We told our guys to hold on for 30 minutes of agony for 12 months of glory. - Coach John McDonnell, after Arkansas won the 1993 Ncaa Cross Country title
• The secret of cross country is to do everything we on the track and take it into the bush. - Mike Koskei, former national coach of Kenya
• Learn to run when feeling the pain: then push harder. - William Sigei
• Ask yourself: "Can I give more?". The answer is usually: "Yes". - Paul Tergat
• Pain is temporary, pride is forever!
• Running is one the best solutions to a clear mind. - Sasha Azevedo