Track Running Quotes

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

PattiSue Plumer

Motivational, Running, Gun

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The mile has a classic symmetry....It's a play in four acts.

John Landy

Running, Play, Track

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Tomorrow is another day, and there will be another battle!

Sebastian Coe

Inspirational, Running, Battle

"Olympian ambitions" by Clare Balding, www.theguardian.com. February 12, 2005.

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Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.

Henry James

Art, Philosophy, Inspirational Running

Henry James (1852). “Lectures and miscellanies”, p.124

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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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My thoughts before a big race are usually pretty simple. I tell myself: Get out of the blocks, run your race, stay relaxed. If you run your race, you'll win... channel your energy. Focus.

Carl Lewis

Basketball, Sports, Running

Carl Lewis, Jeffrey Marx (1992). “Inside track: my professional life in amateur track and field”, Fireside

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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 obsession with running is really an obsession with the potential for more and more life.

George A. Sheehan

Running, Obsession, Track Runners

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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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Some people create with words or with music or with a brush and paints. I like to make something beautiful when I run

Steve Prefontaine

Beautiful, Running, People

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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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Now if you are going to win any battle you have to do one thing. You have to make the mind run the body. Never let the body tell the mind what to do. The body will always give up. It is always tired morning, noon, and night. But the body is never tired if the mind is not tired. When you were younger the mind could make you dance all night, and the body was never tired... You've always got to make the mind take over and keep going.

George S. Patton

Inspirational, Motivational, Running

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Make the mind run the body. Never let the body tell the mind what to do. The body will always give up.

George S. Patton

Running, Giving Up, Mind

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The only reason I would take up jogging is so that I could hear heavy breathing again.

Erma Bombeck

Funny, Running, Sex

Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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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When you put yourself on the line in a race and expose yourself to the unknown, you learn things about yourself that are very exciting.

Doris Brown Heritage

Running, Race, Track And Field

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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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Winners never quit and quitters never win.

Vince Lombardi

Inspirational, Positive, Moving On

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Life is often compared to a marathon, but I think it is more like being a sprinter; long stretches of hard work punctuated by brief moments in which we are given the opportunity to perform at our best.

Michael Johnson

Life, Motivational, Sports

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To win without risk is to triumph without glory.

Pierre Corneille

Inspirational, Motivational, Strength

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The real competition is against the little voice inside you that wants to quit

George A. Sheehan

Running, Real, Voice

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To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift.

Steve Prefontaine

Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership

"Pre: Americas Greatest Running Legend, Steve Prefontaine". Book by Tom Jordan, 1977.

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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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It's very hard in the beginning to understand that the whole idea is not to beat the other runners. Eventually you learn that the competition is against the little voice inside you that wants you to quit.

George A. Sheehan

Motivational, Running, Ideas

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Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.

Lou Holtz

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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