To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift.
You have to wonder at times what you're doing out there. Over the years, I've given myself a thousand reasons to keep running, but it always comes back to where it started. It comes down to self-satisfaction and a sense of achievement.
Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up, it knows it must outrun the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning in Africa, a lion wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the slowest gazelle, or it will starve. It doesn't matter whether you're the lion or a gazelle-when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.
I run to see who has the most guts.
Running is the greatest metaphor for life, because you get out of it what you put into it.
In golf, as in life, you get out of it what you put into it.
Run when you can, walk if you have to, crawl if you must; just never give up.
The will to win means nothing without the will to prepare.
A race is a work of art that people can look at and be affected in as many ways they're capable of understanding.
It is true that speed kills. In distance running, it kills anyone who does not have it.
Good things come slow, especially in distance running.
Ask yourself: 'Can I give more?'. The answer is usually: 'Yes'.
I had as many doubts as anyone else. Standing on the starting line, we're all cowards.
Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.
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.
Don't bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself.
It doesn't matter whether you are a lion or a gazelle. When the sun comes up, you better be running.
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
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.
Run like hell and get the agony over with.
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