Motivational Running Quotes - Page 6

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  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.

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• You have a choice. You can throw in the towel, or you can use it to wipe the sweat off of your face. Gatorade ad The will to win means nothing without the will to prepare.

  Juma Ikangaa

  Running, Mean, Winning

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• There's no such thing as bad weather - only the wrong clothes.

  Billy Connolly

  Being Happy, Running, Adventure

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• There are as many reasons for running as there are days in the year, years in my life. But mostly I run because I am an animal and a child, an artist and a saint. So, too, are you. Find your own play, your own self-renewing compulsion, and you will become the person you are meant to be.

  George A. Sheehan

  Motivational, Fitness, Running

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• Run hard, be strong, think big!

  Percy Cerutty

  Motivational, Fitness, Running

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• Keep varying the program. Your body will tell you what to do.

  Joan Benoit

  Running, Body, Program

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• Everyone who has run knows that its most important value is in removing tension and allowing a release from whatever other cares the day may bring.

  Jimmy Carter

  Running, Important Values, Jogging

  United States. President (1977-1981 : Carter), Jimmy Carter (1979). “Jimmy Carter”

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• The difference between a jogger and a runner is an entry blank.

  George A. Sheehan

  Running, Differences, Jogging

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• 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

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• The best pace is a suicide pace, and today looks like a good day to die.

  Steve Prefontaine

  Life, Suicide, Running

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• The only tactics I admire are do-or-die

  Herb Elliott

  Running, Tactics, Admire

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• 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

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• You have to forget your last marathon before you try another. Your mind can't know what's coming.

  Frank Shorter

  Inspirational, Running, Mind

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• I've always felt that long, slow distance produces long, slow runners.

  Sebastian Coe

  Inspirational, Motivational, Running

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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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• The marathon's about being in contention over the last 10K. That's when it's about what you have in your core. You have run all the strength, all the superficial fitness out of yourself, and it really comes down to what's left inside you. To be able to draw deep and pull something out of yourself is one of the most tremendous things about the marathon.

  Robert de Castella

  Running, Able, Lasts

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• There is nothing more common than unsuccessful men with talent.

  Joe Strummer

  Perseverance, Determination, Persistence

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• To describe the agony of a marathon to someone who's never run it is like trying to explain color to someone who was born blind.

  Jerome Drayton

  Inspirational, Motivational, Running

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• You must have a training routine so that what you do happens automatically. If I got up in the morning and thought about going for a run there would often be a number of possible arguments against it. The thing is to get out and run. Later you can wonder whether you should have or not.

  Robert de Castella

  Running, Inspirational Sports, Morning

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• The athlete who says that something can't be done should never interrupt the one who's doing it

  John Wooden

  Running, Athlete, Done

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• Long distance running is 90% mental and the other half is physical.

  Rich Davis

  Baseball, Running, Distance

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• My doctor told me that jogging could add years to my life. I think he was right. I feel ten years older already.

  Milton Berle

  Funny, Running, Health

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• The real purpose of running isn't to win a race, it's to test the limits of the human heart.

  Bill Bowerman

  Running, Real, Heart

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• We run, not because we think it is doing us good, but because we enjoy it and cannot help ourselves

  Roger Bannister

  Running, Thinking, Training

  Sir Roger Bannister (2011). “The First Four Minutes”, p.142, The History Press

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• We only have two things that we share in this life; we are born and we die. And what we do in between those times, we've got to be happy. I don't let the outside world deter me.

  Dawn Fraser

  Sports, Two, World

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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