I was compiling a list of inspirational quotes and was wondering if you guys/gals would be so kind as to post your favorite(s) quote(s). Thanks. Here is my list so far.
"Running is the greatest metaphor for life, because you get out of it what you put into it."
"There is no glory in practice, but without practice there is no glory."
"If Cross Country were easy, it would be called football!"
"You're running on guts. On fumes. Your muscles twitch. You throw up. You're delirious. But you keep running because there's no way out of this hell you're in, because there's no way you're not crossing the finish line. It's a misery that non-runners don't understand." -Martine Costello
"Those who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those doing it."
-Michael Johnson's trainer
mental is to physical as 4 is to 1
Pain is weakness leaving the body
What doesn't kill us makes us stronger
"I cannot imagine a world without sport and all its pleasures that I have enjoyed, including walking, cycling, sculling, sailing and playing embarrassingly bad golf. But sport without fairness, allowing drugs, is nothing but a cheat's charter. Surely our children deserve better than that?"
-Roger Bannister (first person ever under 4minutes for the mile).
"Stadiums are for spectators. We runners have nature and that is much better."
Juha "the Cruel" Väätäinen
"Pain is inevitable; suffering is optional."
Unknown
Run like hell and get the agony over with.
-Clarence DeMar (Boston Marathon champion)
Running has given me the courage to start, the determination to keep trying, and the childlike spirit to have fun along the way. Run often and run long, but never outrun your joy of running.
-Julie Isphording, Marathon winner
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-Will Rogers
The only limits are, as usual, those of vision.
-James Broughton (American poet)
Mental will is a muscle that needs exercise, just like muscles of the body.
-Lynn Jennings
Now here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!
-Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There
Suffering is the sole origin of consciousness.
-Dostoyevsky (Russian writer)
God gives talent. Work transforms talent into genius.
-Anna Pavlova
The will to win means nothing without the will to prepare.
-Juma Ikangaa (Marathon champion)
There's no traffic jam on the extra mile.
-Unknown
Sweat plus sacrifice equals success.
-Charles O. Finley
“You have to be mentally prepared to prefer dying of pain rather than losing.”
-Bart Gordon (Representative-TN-D)
I look inside and dig it out
‘Cuz there’s no points for second best
-from Mighty Wings by Cheap Trick
“I want this inner feeling to be known by the younger athletes, so they understand what that love of running is all about, I want to pass on my love and feeling for running… I would like younger runners to understand earlier than I did, that winning a gold medal is not always the difference between success and failure. If you do anything in life to the top most of your ability you are always a winner whether you come first in the race of life or not. Self achievement is the key to happiness and well being. It is a key which has unlocked my life and I would like it to do the same for others.”
-Wilson Kipketer