What is the best running quote you've ever heard?

"The Quotable Runner" has lots of good ones. Two of my favorite, which appear close to eachother in the book:

"I don't train. I just run my 3-15 miles a day."

-- Jack Foster

"The long run is what puts the tiger in the cat."

-- Bill Squires

Also Rod Dixon: "All I want to do is drink beer and train like an animal."

ExCoastRanger wrote:

Also Rod Dixon: "All I want to do is drink beer and train like an animal."

This one has been mine for a while now.

Hurdle the weak, trample the dead

"If you are going to be a champion, you must be willing to pay a greater price." -Bud Wilkinson (Not a running-specific quote, but definitely applicable for any sport)

It's at the borders of pain and suffering that the men are separated from the boys."

- Emil Zatopek

Mind is everything: muscle, pieces of rubber. -Paavo Nurmi

"Shock the world."

"Many a false step has been taken by standing still." - fortune cookie

"When you poop in the woods, your first step is always forward."--Me

Quote from Ian Stewart ( yes the guy who beat PRE)

"In any final I want to be in the lead whistling through the bell. Go down the back straight like shit off a shovel and kick again off the final bend".

quotes wrote:

My favorite is: "Every morning in Africa, a Gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a Lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest Gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn't matter whether you are a Lion or a Gazelle... when the sun comes up, you'd better be running."

From Zuma Ikanka(sp):"The will to win means nothing without the will to prepare."

The kind that hasn't been written or heard of yet?

Okay, on the serious side..."The solitude of running can only be captured by thyself?". Sorry, just made this up.

The distance runner's mantra:

If it hurts, make it hurt more.

Any race you can walk away from is a bad race.

If you're not injured, you're not training hard enough.

ytkyt wrote:

If you're not injured, you're not training hard enough.

yeah dude, I dont want to run well, I just want to get injured.

"Rudyard Kipling was a 4:30 miler" - Quenton Cassidy

ytkyt wrote:

The distance runner's mantra:

If it hurts, make it hurt more.

Any race you can walk away from is a bad race.

If you're not injured, you're not training hard enough.

What? Every time I think posters on LR might be somewhat respectable someone like you posts...

Applicable to any sport: The will to win, is nothing without the will to prepare.

And likewise, the will to prepare, is nothing without the will to win.

From Zuma Ikanka(sp):"The will to win means nothing without the will to prepare."

Sorry didnt see your post.

A Runner wrote:

"Rudyard Kipling was a 4:30 miler" - Quenton Cassidy

In reference to this:

If

If you can keep your head when all about you

Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;

If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,

But make allowance for their doubting too;

If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,

Or, being lied about, don't deal in lies,

Or, being hated, don't give way to hating,

And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise;

If you can dream - and not make dreams your master;

If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;

If you can meet with triumph and disaster

And treat those two imposters just the same;

If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken

Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,

Or watch the things you gave your life to broken,

And stoop and build 'em up with wornout tools;

If you can make one heap of all your winnings

And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,

And lose, and start again at your beginnings

And never breath a word about your loss;

If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew

To serve your turn long after they are gone,

And so hold on when there is nothing in you

Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on";

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,

Or walk with kings - nor lose the common touch;

If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;

If all men count with you, but none too much;

If you can fill the unforgiving minute

With sixty seconds' worth of distance run -

Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,

And - which is more - you'll be a Man my son!

Running is just a specialized skill.

Tommy Two Gloves you're a loser, you stole that quote from my buddy Brent.