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• "Do you have the talent?" is rarely the question. "Do you have the guts to finish?" is the real question.

  Orrin Woodward

  Real, Talent, Guts

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• Most runners run not because they want to live longer, but because they want to live life to the fullest.

  Haruki Murakami

  Running, Live Life, Want

  "What I Talk About When I Talk About Running". Book by Haruki Murakami, October 15, 2007.

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• It's ironic that Olympic spectators will never have seen Yiannis Kouros, the greatest Greek athlete since Pheidippides

  Ed Ayres

  Athlete, Greek, Ironic

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• We who run...are different from those who merely study us. We are out there experiencing what they are trying to put into words.

  George A. Sheehan

  Running, Trying, Different

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• In NASCAR, you don't have to be as physically strong as in some other forms of racing. You've just got to be able to endure the heat and endurance of it.

  Jeff Gordon

  Strong, Nascar Racing, Able

  Time, Volume 171, 2008.

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• The truly good and wise man will bear all kinds of fortune in a seemly way, and will always act in the noblest manner that the circumstances allow.

  Aristotle

  Life, Gratitude, Courage

  "Nicomachean Ethics". Book by Aristotle, I, 1101a, www.perseus.tufts.edu.

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• Is this level of athletic competition the ultimate distraction from real life? Or is it a form of prayer?

  Norah Vincent

  Prayer, Real, Athletic

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• I believe that fortitude is key. More than anything, be consistent. Go at it. Go at it. Go at it. When you succeed, don’t forget the responsibility of making somebody else succeed with you.

  Antonia Novello

  Success, Perseverance, Believe

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• By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man's, I mean.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Witty, Humorous

  "The Jumping Frog: And 18 Other Stories".

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• There are as many reasons for running as there are days in a year.... But mostly I run because I am an animal and a child.

  George A. Sheehan

  Running, Children, Animal

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  I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'

  Muhammad Ali

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

  Twitter post from Feb 20, 2011

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• God never changes; Patient endurance Attains to all things; Who God possesses In nothing is wanting; Alone God suffices.

  Teresa of Avila

  Evil, Patient, Never Change

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• Gentleness, Virtue, Wisdom, and Endurance, These are the seals of that most firm assurance Which bars the pit over Destruction's strength; And if, with infirm hand, Eternity, Mother of many acts and hours, should free The serpent that would clasp her with his length; These are the spells by which to reassume An empire o'er the disentangled doom.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Mother, Hands, Bars

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1820). “Prometheus Unbound: A Lyrical Drama in Four Acts with Other Poems”, p.152

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• I always loved running.... It was something you could do by yourself and under your own power.

  Jesse Owens

  Running, Track And Field, Jogging

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• Suffering is the substance of life and the root of personality, for it is only suffering that makes us persons.

  Miguel de Unamuno

  Roots, Personality, Suffering

  Miguel de Unamuno (2012). “Tragic Sense Of Life”, p.288, tredition

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• Not less than two hours a day should be devoted to exercise.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Exercise, Two, Hours

  Letter to Thomas M. Randolph Jr, 27 August (1786)

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• Organizations endure, however, in proportion to the breadth of the morality by which they are governed. Thus the endurance of organization depends upon the quality of leadership; and that quality derives from the breadth of the morality upon which it rests.

  Chester Barnard

  Organization, Quality, Morality

  "The Functions of the Executive" by Chester Barnard, Harvard University Press, (p. 282), 1938.

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• This knowledge, the knowledge that the physical well-being of the citizen is an important foundation for all of the activities of the nation, is as old as Western civilization itself.

  John F. Kennedy

  Civilization, America, Important

  "Sport at the New Frontier: The Soft American". Sports Illustrated Vol. 13, Issue 26, p.14-17, December 26, 1960.

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• Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect, but of all human contemplations the most abhorrent is body without mind.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Perspective, Mind, Abhorrent

  Letter to John Adams, 1 August (1816)

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• A city that outdistances man's walking powers is a trap for man.

  Arnold J. Toynbee

  Journey, Men, Cities

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• Men are born human. What they must learn is to be an animal. If they learn otherwise it may kill them, and kill life on the planet.

  Paul Shepard

  Animal, Men, May

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• Years ago, women sat in the kitchen drinking coffee and discussing life. Now they discuss the same topics while they run.

  Joan Benoit

  Running, Drinking, Coffee

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• Things may serve long, but not serve ever.

  William Shakespeare

  Long, May

  William Shakespeare (2007). “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare”, p.762, Wordsworth Editions

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• I got plenty of cautions that one or two of these marathons was all a man should do in a lifetime.

  Clarence DeMar

  Men, Two, Marathon

  Clarence DeMar (2016). “Marathon: Autobiography of Clarence Demar- America's Grandfather of Running”, p.23, BookBaby

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• Endurance is the prerogative of woman, enabling the gentlest to suffer what would cause terror to manhood.

  Christoph Martin Wieland

  Suffering, Enabling, Causes

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