Running Quotes?????????????????????????????????????

"The will to win means nothing without the will to prepare." -- Juma Ikangaa

http://www.breakawaybooks.com/Quotable_Runner.htm

Shut-up and run. I was runninng real fast but I just got tired. Are we done yet? Quit or run your chioce.

"It's hard to soar with the eagles when you train with the turkeys..."

also...

Athletic Director...

"How was your race?"

Big Nick

"I shit the bed...."

Big Nick Landry's quotes...

on the off chance that Big Nick is on this message board, post something

"We can blaze! Become legends in our own time, strike fear in the heart of mediocre talent everywhere! We can scald dogs, put records out of reach! Make the stands gasp as we blow into an unearthly kick from three hundred yards out! We can become God's own messengers delivering the dreaded scrolls! We can race dark Satan himself till he wheezes fiery cinders down the back straightaway! They'll speak our names in hushed tones,'Those guys are animals' they'll say! We can lay it on the line, bust a gut, show them a clean pair of heels. We can sprint the turn on a spring breeze and feel the winter leave our feet!"

-Once a Runner

I had the courage to start, and that's all that matters even though I finished after they had taken down the finish line and everyone else had gone home. I ate some great donuts on the course, though.

-The Penguin (paraphrased, but you get the idea.)

"We have the power supreme."

-Bevis & ButtHead

I like the "Shut up & Run" from an earlier post. I thought it was mine!

We had a guy in our club when we'd run hills that would say "Let's stomp this hill flat!

plenty of good ones here

http://www.breakawaybooks.com/Quotable_Runner.htm

Along those same lines......"It is hard to soar with the eagles when you are out hooting with the owls". In other words, get to bed and get plenty of dleep.

"All I wanna do is drink beer and train like an animal."

--Rod Dixon

Mmmm...dleep

"The fastest marathon times have invariably been achieved by athletes covering the latter part of the race at a faster pace than the first part." Leonard G. "Buddy" Edelen, former American & World Record Holder for the Marathon

"Lightning like I made up my mind to break away from the main field and to lead the run in the fastest possible steady racing speed which I could hold to the end. That is just what I did." Vladimir Kuts, Gold medalist at 5000 & 10000 1956 Olympic Games

"The idea is to run with the leaders and see who gives up first."

"Regardless of what training method is used it absolutely cannot guarantee success in racing. Training merely makes successful racing possible. A runner must also have the will to win, a subconscious desire for victory, courage, tenacity, and a competitive 'killer instinct' to transform the racing potential resulting from good training into reality". Fred Wilt from Run Run Run

"Bid me run,/ and I will strive with things impossible" Shakespeare(Hamlet, I think)

The Runner by Walt Whitman

On a flat road runs the well train?d runner,

He is lean and sinewy with muscular legs,

He is thinly clothed, he leans forward as he runs,

With lightly closed fists and arms partially rais?d.

"Nanny Nanny Boo Boo, You can't catch me!" My Daughter

Not exact quotes as they are from memory but close enough.

Steve Jones "If I'm standing at the end of a cross country race just come over and beat me with a board until I fall down because I didn't run hard enough"

John Walker "While they are prancing around on the track worrying about style I'm doing some bloody hard work running up hills"

When the going gets tough, the tough getting going.

Ian Stewart "First is First, and Second is nowhere"