Track And Field Quotes - Page 3

• Life is a marathon, not a sprint; pace yourself accordingly.

  Amby Burfoot

  Life, Running, Pace

  Amby Burfoot (2000). “The Runner's Guide to the Meaning of Life: What 35 Years of Running Have Taught Me About Winning, Losing, Happiness, Humility, and the Human Heart”, p.15, Rodale

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• Running with others can help get you out when you might otherwise blow it off.

  Frank Shorter

  Sports, Running, Blow

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• Some people have a negative attitude, and that's their disability.

  Marla Runyan

  Attitude, People, Negativity

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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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• People say that it was degrading for an Olympic champion to run against a horse, but what was I supposed to do? I had four gold medals, but you can't eat four gold medals. There was no television, no big advertising, no endorsements then. Not for a black man, anyway.

  Jesse Owens

  Sports, Running, Horse

  "Owens pierced a myth" by Larry Schwartz, www.espn.com.

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• Running is my meditation, mind flush, cosmic telephone, mood elevator and spiritual communion.

  Lorraine Moller

  Sports, Running, Spiritual

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• I always loved running... it was something you could do by yourself, and under your own power. You could go in any direction, fast or slow as you wanted, fighting the wind if you felt like it, seeking out new sights just on the strength of your feet and the courage of your lungs.

  Jesse Owens

  Motivational, Fitness, Running

  Jesse Owens, Paul G. Neimark (1978). “Jesse, a spiritual autobiography”

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• Track and field, because it was something I could do by myself, one-on-one, me against everybody else.

  Jim Thorpe

  Nfl, Track, Fields

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• It was not until the end of my freshman year in high school that I thought I could really have a future in track and field. I definitely did not think I could make it to the Olympics back then, though; I was just focused on making it to the state finals!

  Allyson Felix

  School, Thinking, Years

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• I love watching track and field - the 4x100 relay, the 100-(meter) dash, the 200-(meter) dash. To see what they're able to do, I love watching that.

  LeBron James

  Track, Able, Fields

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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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• I want to be one of the greatest athletes ever to live, not only in track and field, but in all of general sport.

  Usain Bolt

  Sports, Athlete, Track

  "Q&A with Usain Bolt: Protests, doping scandals, post-track life... and wings". The ESPN.com Interview, www.espn.com. September 24, 2016.

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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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• I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.

  Booker T. Washington

  Inspirational, Life, Success

  Booker T. Washington (1901). “An Autobiography: The Story of My Life and Work, the Original Brought Up-to-date with Over Half a Hundred Full Page Photo and Halftone Engravings and Drawings by Frank Beard”

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• Run like hell and get the agony over with.

  Clarence DeMar

  Inspirational, Running, Agony

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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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• To win without risk is to triumph without glory.

  Pierre Corneille

  Inspirational, Motivational, Strength

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• The will to win means nothing without the will to prepare.

  Juma Ikangaa

  Motivational, Running, Mean

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• I never really worried about those hurdles. They were just standing there, and I was always zooming past them just to get back on the ground again.

  Rod Milburn

  Motivational, Past, Track

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• The gun goes off and everthing changes... the world changes... and nothing else really matters.

  PattiSue Plumer

  Motivational, Running, Gun

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• It hurts up to a point and then it doesn't get any worse.

  Ann Trason

  Inspirational, Running, Hurt

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• I grew up an athlete. Track and field and dance. In track, I actually went to the Junior Olympics. I've always been very athletic.

  Kimberly Elise

  Athlete, Track, Athletic

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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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• Go in any direction..seeking out new sights just on the strength of your feet and the courage of your lungs.

  Paula Radcliffe

  Running, Feet, Sight

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• The more success I have with track and field the bigger my brand is. So I would say I'm more of a brand now, trying to build for the future.

  Usain Bolt

  Track, Trying, Fields

  "Usain Bolt talks secret post-season parties, fame and the fear of losing". Interview with Alastair Campbell, www.gq-magazine.co.uk. August 15, 2016.

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