Track Running Quotes - Page 2

Good things come slow, especially in distance running.

Bill Dellinger

Running, Giving Up, Distance

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

Sam Snead

Running, Golf, Track

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Your body will argue that there is no justifiable reason to continue. Your only recourse is to call on your spirit, which fortunately functions independently of logic.

Tim Noakes

Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

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Cross Country: No half times, no time outs, no substitutions. It must be the only true sport.

Chuck Norris

Sports, Country, Track

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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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You cannot propel yourself forward by patting yourself on the back.

Steve Prefontaine

Running, Track, Aviation

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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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Racing teaches us to challenge ourselves. It teaches us to push beyond where we thought we could go. It helps us to find out what we are made of. This is what we do. This is what it's all about.

PattiSue Plumer

Inspirational, Motivational, Running

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Do a little more each day than you think you possibly can.

Lowell Thomas

Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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

Paul Brown

Motivational, Sports, Running

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There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

John Ruskin

Change, Running, Rainy Day

"The Use Of Life". Book by John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury. Chapter 4: "Recreation", 1894.

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Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.

Will Rogers

Inspirational, Funny, Life

"The Graduation Speech I'd Give, if Anyone Asked" by Karina Bland, www.azcentral.com. June 03, 2015.

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

Confucius

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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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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But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep.

Robert Frost

Love, Inspirational, Tattoo

"Stopping byWoods on a Snowy Evening" l. 13 (1923)

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I run to see who has the most guts.

Steve Prefontaine

Sports, Running, Track

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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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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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Running is the greatest metaphor for life, because you get out of it what you put into it.

Oprah Winfrey

Motivational, Running, Fitness

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

Bill Bowerman

Funny, Motivational, Nike

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If you want to become the best runner you can be, start now. Don't spend the rest of your life wondering if you can do it.

Priscilla Welch

Motivational, Softball, Running

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Mental will is a muscle that needs exercise, just like the muscles of the body.

Lynn Jennings

Motivational, Sports, Running

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