favorite running quote!!!!!

Can I toss ya salad?-Jon Gill

A couple more...

I do everything I can to win. Said Aouita

Those who believe they can do something are probably right--and so are those who believe the can't. Unknown

Mind is everything; muscles, mere pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind. Paavo Nurmi

The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win. Roger Bannister

I was pushed by myself because I have my own rule, and that is that every day I run faster, and try harder. Wilson Kipketer

And my drug quote is...

Right is right, even if everyone is against it; and wrong is wrong' even if everyone is for it. William Penn

And one more..

Second place is OK... for you! Unknown

"Every Passion Has Its Destiny" -- Billy Mills

"write the vision and make it plain upon tables that he may run what readeth it."

- Arabian proverb

"If you want to win anything- a race, yourself, your life- you have to go a little berserk" This quote is by George Sheehan!

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!

--Rudyard Kipling

Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter — tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther.... And one fine morning—

So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly in to the past.

—F. Scott Fitzgerald

"It's elevating and humbling at the same time. Running along a beach at sunrise with no other footprints in the sand, you realize the vastness of creation, your own insignificant space in the plan, how tiny you really are, your own creatureliness and how much you ow to the supreme body, the God that brought all this beauty and harmony into being." Sister Marion Irvine, 2:51 PR and 1984 U.S. Olympic Trials Qualifier

"Sweat cleanses from the inside. It comes from places a shower will never reach."

-George Sheehan

"Shit man, I'd eat dog shit if it'd make me run faster"-

Rick Fuller

If I'm standing at the end of a cross country race come over and hit me with a board as I didn't run hard enough.

ef wrote:

"Sweat cleanses from the inside. It comes from places a shower will never reach."

-George Sheehan

You mean like between my butt crack?

"I don’t train. I just run my 3-15 miles a day." - Jack Foster

"Somewhere in the world someone is training when you are not. When you race him, he will win." - Tom Fleming’s Boston Marathon sign

"You don't have to have the lead if you have the courage to come from behind." -source unknown

My favorites wrote:

"You don't have to have the lead if you have the courage to come from behind." -source unknown

Hey, that's what that girl I picked up at the bar said to me!

I'd rather have preparation than motivation... everyone likes to play and no one likes to practice.

The older I get, the faster I was......my all time favorite.

The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.

Of course, it's from Ernest Hemingway.

We used this in soccer my sophomore year in H.S.

"Res Non Verba"

latin translation = Actions Not Words

~BigBear

Dear God, If you pick em up, I'll put em down.