Running Track Quotes - Page 2

• If you fail to prepare, prepare to fail.

  Steve Prefontaine

  Inspirational Running, Track, Auditions

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• Don’t be afraid to give up the good for the great.

  Steve Prefontaine

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• Attitude determines how well you do it.

  Lou Holtz

  Motivational Sports, Attitude, Exercise

  Lou Holtz (2009). “Winning Every Day: The Game Plan for Success”, p.14, Harper Collins

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• Success isn't how far you got, but the distance you traveled from where you started.

  Steve Prefontaine

  Running, Distance, Track

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• You must see yourself run the race over and over, time and time again. You must put yourself in critical positions and see how you would react in those positions before the race so when and if they do happen, the feedback is automatic.

  Rod Milburn

  Motivational, Running, Race

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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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• American naturalist John Burroughs put it, “A man can fail many times, but he isn’t a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.

  Jeff Olson

  Running, Failure, Responsibility

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• Winners never quit and quitters never win.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Positive, Moving On

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• To win without risk is to triumph without glory.

  Pierre Corneille

  Inspirational, Motivational, Strength

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• People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Inspirational, Perseverance, Business

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• A lot of people run a race to see who is fastest. I run to see who has the most guts, who can punish himself into exhausting pace, and then at the end, punish himself even more.

  Steve Prefontaine

  Running, Pain, Race

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• It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.

  Seneca the Younger

  Inspirational, Success, Uplifting

  "Moral Letters to Lucilius (Letter LXXXIV)". Book by Seneca the Younger, 1920.

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• The five S's of sports training are: stamina, speed, strength, skill, and spirit; but the greatest of these is spirit.

  Ken Doherty

  Inspirational, Motivational, Strength

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• Champions do not become champions when they win the event, but in the hours, weeks, months and years they spend preparing for it. The victorious performance itself is merely the demonstration of their championship character.

  Alan Armstrong

  Sports, Running, Athlete

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

  Bill Bowerman

  Funny, Motivational, Nike

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• One chance is all you need.

  Jesse Owens

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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  The battles that count aren't the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself - the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us - that's where it's at.

  Jesse Owens

  Inspirational, Motivational, Running

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• In golf, as in life, you get out of it what you put into it.

  Sam Snead

  Running, Golf, Track

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• Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "From Telegraph to Light Bulb with Thomas Edison". Book by Deborah Headstrom-Page, 2007.

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

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.

  John Burroughs

  Inspirational, Positive, Running

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  We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort.

  Jesse Owens

  Inspirational, Motivational, Running

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• When you win, say nothing. When you lose, say less.

  Paul Brown

  Motivational, Sports, Running

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