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My Favorite Quotes

This is going to be my page of quotes that I have came across through running. If you have any, please e-mail me them and I will try to add them or add below! Sign My Guestbook

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Running Quotes and Such:

~"It takes courage to push yourself to places that you Have never been before... to test your limits... to break through barriers." ~Running is life...the rest is just details. ~Real cross-country runners eat raw meat, run naked and sleep in the snow. ~How's my running? Call 1-800-eat-dust. ~God gets you to the track, but once you are there you are on your own! ~Pass or be passed. ~Oh I'm sorry officer. Was I going that fast? ~In Cross Country there are no timeouts, no substitions, and no one sits on the bench. This is a sport. ~You don't get what you wish for...you get what you work for. ~Fast girls have great times. ~You're worst enemy is the little voice inside your head telling you to stop. ~There's no telling how many miles you'll run when chasing a dream. Winners train, losers complain. ~Cross country finally a good use for golf courses. ~To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift. ~Steve Prefontaine ~A Goal is a race with a finish line. ~There is no strength withought struggle. ~Shoot for the moon if you miss you will still land among the stars. ~A bend in the road is not the end of the road unless you fail to make the turn...Unless of course you're a runner then you make your own road. ~You say you can beat me...I say your mama raised a fool! ~Cross country is one hill of a sport. ~Runners...yeah we're different. ~Winners never complain they are too busy getting better. ~Run all out...or get out. ~Smoke or be smoked. ~You get out what you put in. ~We are like these colors but we never fade....tie die shirts. ~When the going gets tough the tough get going. ~Take it to the limit then kick it in! ~Remember my name...You'll be screaming it later. ~We're not players...we just run alot. ~I need to seek help...I am a RUNAHOLIC ~If running is a gift, I am going to create a masterpiece! ~See me come, see me pass, see me win. ~Run hard, turn left. ~I'm the Road Runner "BEEP BEEP." ~If we played tag, you would be "it" forever! ~I run, therefore I am buff. ~Born to run, trained to win. ~Now you see me...now you don't. ~Attitudes are contagious, Ours is worth catching. ~I eat nothing but "meet" sandwiches served with hard work, dedication, and pride. ~Finish lines are only a reminder to stop. ~We can, we will, we did. ~Real athletes run...the rest just play games. ~Anyone can run 100 meters...it's the next 4900 that count. ~I'm not a sadist...I just like to beat people~Nike Ad ~If tomorrow were your last day on earth, how hard would you train today? ~Some people dream of success, we wake up and work hard at it. ~Be proud of how far you have come. Have faith in how far you can go. ~Run far, Run fast, Run hard. ~Withought limits. ~To run or not to run? There is no question. ~We run every race like it is our last. ~Heat, hills, fast pace, deal with it! ~That which does not kill us, only makes us stronger. ~We can't we don't and we won't stop. ~Make dust or eat dust. ~You either ran today or you didn't. ~If you can't run with the big dogs, stay on the porch. ~Run for it. ~I run because I must. It is my destiny. ~There are two roads in life...run both.~Nike shirt ~Go the distance. ~God created cross country...the devil made the courses. ~A positive attitude may not solve all of your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth your while. ~We don't go to the moon because it's easy...we go to the moon because it's hard.~John F. Kennedy ~Running is not a punnishment. ~You better read fast because I'm leaving you behind. ~Superman...Faster than a speeding bullet. ~My mother said I shouldn't be a fast girl who runs around town, sorry mommmy. ~Whoever said that it's not weather you win or lose that counts probably lost!! ~You ask me why I run? The same reason why I breathe, I have to! ~We don't yield to pedestrians. ~No one ever drowned in sweat. ~E=MC2 Endurance=Muscle times concentration twice. ~Running is the feeling of someone pushing you from behind...and realizing it's you. ~It hurts alot less when you win. ~Everyone gets knocked down...Champions get back up. ~You run like a girl, good for you. ~Some call it obsessive compulsive. We call it cross country. ~May the course be with you. ~No time limit...No speed limit...No dream limit ~If you're not the lead dog the view remains the same. ~The gun goes off...I am the bullet. ~I will do today what you won't so tomorrow I can do what you can't. ~Everyone looks up at the stars in the sky, but a champion climbs a mountain and gets one. ~It is not enough to be good if you have the ability to be better. ~Roads? Where we're going we don't need roads. ~We kick asphalt. ~Run,eat, sleep, repeat. ~The road to hell is paved. Run cross country. ~It is not the size of the dog in the fight it's the size of the fight in the dog. ~In a world of give and take, give what it takes. ~If you have to ask us why we run, then you will never understand. ~Cross country is about where you are going and who you've left behind. ~Learn as if you were to live forever; Compete as if you were to die tomorrow.-John Wooden ~Mother, there's a mad man running in the streets, And he's humming a tune, And he's snarling at dogs,And he still has four more miles to go.~Nike ad ~"You don’t run against a bloody stop watch, do you hear? A runner runs against himself, against the best that’s in him. Not against a dead thing of wheels and pulleys. That’s the way to be great, running against yourself. Against all the rotten mess in the world. Against God, if you’re good enough." - Bill Persons ~Some people follow their dreams, others hunt them down and beat them mercilessly into submission. - Neil Kendall ~You can fight without ever winning, but never ever, win without a fight. -Rush (the Band) ~Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire. - Fred Shero ~Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible." - Doug Larson ~We BUST ours to BEAT yours!! ~"I want the Africans to think,'who's this american? whats he doing running so fast?' i want to get into their heads, make them realize i'm going to be a factor in the 5000." -Adam Goucher ~There is only now,there is only here. Give in to love or live in fear. No other path, no other way. No day but today" -unknown ~"A race is to test the limits of the human heart." -Prefontaine ~"I love controlling a race. its raw, animalistic, with no one to rely on but yourself. theres no better feeling." -Adam Goucher ~"Somebody may beat me, but there gonna have to bleed to do it." -Prefontaine ~Ya love me. Ya hate me. You'll never forget me!!! aka Pre ~If you feel bad at 10 miles, you're in trouble, if you feel bad at 20, you're normal, if you feel good at 26.2 miles, you're abnormal. ~Today's preparation determines tomorrow's acheivement. ~Pain is just weakness leaving the body. ~"All I want to do is drink beer and train like an animal." —Rod Dixon ~The race is not always to the swift, but to those who keep on running. ~"Using no way as way, having no limitations as limitations." ~Bruce Lee ~"You are all Champions in your own way. That doesn't mean you have to be number 1 or be the best. Just do your best. If you aren't first, then make those people ahead of you break records by pushing them with your personal best. Consider for a moment what we achieve from athletics - the sheer fun of competing - the building of a healthy and alert mind and body -stamina, courage, perseverance, dedication, commitment, selflessness and most importantly, the will to excel." - Unknown ~"There will come a point in the race, when you alone will need to decide.You will need to make a choice. Do you really want it? You will need to decide." -Rolf Arands ~"Cowards die many times before their deaths, the valiant never taste death but once." -Shakespeare, Julius Ceaser ~"Running: running: hear the beat! Busting lungs and pounding feet. Straining: gaining: 'til your done: Or you have the race well-won. Racing: Pacing: rather die: Than give up or let them by. -First stanza of "The Distance Runner" by coach Percy Cerutty ~"Run with perseverence the race that is before you."-Heb. 12:1 ~"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 ~"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up."- Thomas Edison ~"I may be outrun - but I will not be beaten!" - Amanda Orson ~"These high wild hills and rough uneven ways draw out our miles and make them wearisome." -Shakespeare, Richard II ~"The answer to the big questions in running is the same as the answer to the big questions in life: do the best with what you've got."- George Sheehan ~"Running, one might say is basicaly and observed pastime, on which not to be exausting ourselves, but if you can find meaning in the type of running you have to do to stay on this team, chances are you'll be able to find meaning in another observed pastime, life." -Bill Bowerman (Donald Sutherland in Without Limits) ~"Perseverance: is not a long race; it is many short races one after another." - Walter Elliott ~"I'm trying to do the best I can. I'm not concerned about tomorrow, but with what goes on today." - Mark Spitz ~"Once you have decided that winning isn't everything, you become a winner." - George Sheehan ~"Why dost thou run so many miles about?" -Shakespeare,Richard III ~I WILL PERSIST UNTIL I SUCCEED. I WAS NOT DELIVERED INTO THIS WORLD IN DEFEAT, NOR DOES FAILURE COURSE IN MY VEINS. I AM NOT A SHEEP WAITING TO BE PRODDED BY MY SHEPARD. I AM A LION AND I REFUSE TO TALK, TO WALK, TO SLEEP WITH THE SHEEP. THE SLAUGHTERHOUSE OF FAILURE IS NOT MY DESTINY. I WILL PERSIST UNTIL I SUCCEED. ~"Bid me run, and I will strive with things impossible."- Shakespeare, Julius Caesar ~"Sweat cleanses from the inside. It comes from places a shower will never reach."- George Sheehan ~"Have a dream, make a plan, go for it. You’ll get there, I promise."- Zoe Koplowitz ~The obsession with running is really an obsession with the potential for more and more life." - George Sheehan

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