Cross Country Running Quotes - Page 3

• 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

  36 Copy quote

• There's no such thing as bad weather, just soft people.

  Bill Bowerman

  Funny, Motivational, Nike

  212 Copy quote

• A runners creed: I will win; if I cannot win, I shall be second; if I cannot be second, I shall be third; if I cannot place at all, I shall still do my best.

  Ken Doherty

  Running, Winning, Creeds

  Ken Doherty (1964). “Modern training for running”, Prentice Hall

  19 Copy quote

  Show source

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

  Veikko Karvonen

  Motivational, Running, Athlete

  8 Copy quote

• It is a paradox to say the human body has no 'limit.' There must be a limit to the speed at which men can run. I feel this may be around 3:30 for the mile. However, another paradox remains - if an athlete manages to run 3:30, another runner could be found to marginally improve on that time.

  Roger Bannister

  Running, Athlete, Men

  7 Copy quote

• There is the truth about the marathon and very few of you have written the truth. Even if I explain to you, you'll never understand it, you're outside of it.

  Douglas Wakiihuri

  Motivational, Running, Athlete

  7 Copy quote

• 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.

  Robert de Castella

  Country, Running, Boys

  27 Copy quote
• 

  Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  1132 Copy quote

• The footing was really atrocious. I loved it. I really like Cross Country; you're one with the mud.

  Lynn Jennings

  Running, Country, Mud

  8 Copy quote

• School cross country runs started because the rugby pitches were flooded. There was an alternative: extra studying. This meant there were plenty of runners on sports afternoons.

  Gordon Pirie

  Sports, Running, Country

  6 Copy quote

• If you want to tell something to an athlete, say it quickly and give no alternatives. This is a game of winning and losing. It is senseless to explain and explain.

  Paavo Nurmi

  Running, Athlete, Winning

  24 Copy quote

• Those who say that I will lose and am finished will have to run over my body to beat me.

  Said Aouita

  Motivational, Running, Athlete

  10 Copy quote

• I am going to go out a winner if I have to find a high school race to win my last race.

  Johnny Gray

  Sports, School, Hockey

  7 Copy quote

• The obsession with running is really an obsession with the potential for more and more life.

  George A. Sheehan

  Running, Obsession, Track Runners

  12 Copy quote

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

  Lasse Viren

  Motivational, Sports, Running

  19 Copy quote

• I had as many doubts as anyone else. Standing on the starting line, we're all cowards.

  Alberto Salazar

  Softball, Running, Doubt

  36 Copy quote

• Run hard, be strong, think big!

  Percy Cerutty

  Motivational, Fitness, Running

  43 Copy quote

• Every athlete has doubts. Elite runners in particular are insecure people. You need someone to affirm that what you are doing is right.

  Lynn Jennings

  Running, Athlete, Insecure

  12 Copy quote

• 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

  24 Copy quote
• 

  Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever.

  Lance Armstrong

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

  "It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life". Book by Lance Armstrong and Sally Jenkins, May 22, 2000.

  139 Copy quote

  Show source

• Marathoning is like cutting yourself unexpectedly. You dip into the pain so gradually that the damage is done before you are aware of it. Unfortunately, when the awareness comes, it is excruciating.

  John Farrington

  Running, Pain, Cutting

  12 Copy quote

• Trample the weak. Hurdle the dead.

  Attila the Hun

  Funny Running, Weak, Hurdle

  323 Copy quote

• 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

  12 Copy quote

• 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

  Motivational, Running, Eye

  46 Copy quote

• I run because it's my passion, and not just a sport. Every time I walk out the door, I know why I'm going where I'm going and I'm already focused on that special place where I find my peace and solitude. Running, to me, is more than just a physical exercise... it's a consistent reward for victory!

  Sasha Azevedo

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

  43 Copy quote

  Show source