Track And Field Quotes - Page 5

• 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, Want

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• And you want to know why track and field is dying in this country? Kids today can watch Kobe Bryant go end-to-end and Randy Moss run a down-and-out and Ichiro Suzuki go from first to third and they will see it start to finish, in real time, the outcome happening before their eyes. But the men's 400 relay finals at the world championships? On your mark, get set . . . we'll show it to you in four hours on another network.

  Mike Penner

  Sports, Country, Running

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• Track and field has always interested me.

  Bruce Dern

  Track, Fields

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• "Competing in both track and field and basketball for the Bruins I have a lot of great memories to choose from. But my all-time favorite moment in collegiate sports has to be in 1982 when we won UCLA's first NCAA title in track."

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee

  Inspirational, Basketball, Sports

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• I'm going to go and leave my blood all over the track.

  Nick Rogers

  Motivational, Running, Blood

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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 art form is to become one with the hurdle, to make it your friend, and I embraced that process.

  Renaldo Nehemiah

  Motivational, Art, Track

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• Many track and field people know that if I stay relaxed and run my race like I'm supposed to, I will be the winner at the Olympic Games.

  Asafa Powell

  Running, Race, Games

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• I would be inclined to say 'if you are not willing to cooperate and follow the rules of your international federation you are not the right track and field association to be part of the USOC.

  Dick Pound

  Track, Would Be, Association

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• If you fail to prepare, prepare to fail.

  Steve Prefontaine

  Inspirational Running, Track, Auditions

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• John McDonnell is the Bear Bryant of track and field.

  Frank Broyles

  Track, Fields, Bears

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• I was working in corporate Canada and I was doing all right. But I was burnt out... Long hours, a lot of clients. I just wanted to get away. Track and field was sort of like the elimination thing. I just wanted to go and do something. Exercise my brain and my body and kind of gravitate to that.

  Donovan Bailey

  Exercise, Long, Track

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

  Jesse Owens

  Running, Endurance, Jogging

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• Track and field is the best way to reach out for kids. It doesn't matter how fast you are. You always want to beat someone.

  Carl Lewis

  Kids, Track, Want

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• I actually got dared to audition for the dance team. All my track-and-field buddies dared me to audition, and I was one of the few guys who did it.

  Harry Shum, Jr.

  Team, Track, Guy

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• I love sports. I've played basketball, baseball, soccer, tennis, track and field growing up.

  Michael B. Jordan

  Basketball, Soccer, Sports

  Interview with Genevieve Koski, www.avclub.com. July 15, 2011.

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• When I tell people I'm going to the Olympics, they're like: 'What do you do, track and field? Pole vault? Are you a volleyball player?' No one ever guesses tae kwon do.

  Diana Lopez

  Volleyball, Player, People

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• I wouldn't mind being a track and field coach.

  Ron Rash

  Track, Mind, Fields

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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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• 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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