100+ Cross Country Running Quotes

source: Christopher McDougall (2010). “Born to Run: The hidden tribe, the ultra-runners, and the greatest race the world has never seen”, p.13, Profile Books

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Running, Gazelles, Marathon Motivational

It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

- Mark Twain

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Inspirational Football, Marathon Runners

A lot of people run a race to see who is fastest. I run to see who has the most guts, who can punish himself into exhausting pace, and then at the end, punish himself even more.

- Steve Prefontaine

topic: Running, Pain, Race, Marathon Motivational, Marathon Runners

Listen to your body. Do not be a blind and deaf tenant.

- George A. Sheehan

topic: Running, Body, Blind, Marathon Motivational, Marathon Runners

It is true that speed kills. In distance running, it kills anyone who does not have it.

- Brooks Johnson

topic: Running, Distance, Doe, Marathon Running, Motivational Cross Country Running

If you want to become the best runner you can be, start now. Don't spend the rest of your life wondering if you can do it.

- Priscilla Welch

topic: Running, Want, Wonder, Marathon Runners, Motivational Cross Country Running

It hurts up to a point and then it doesn't get any worse.

- Ann Trason

topic: Running, Hurt, It Hurts, Marathon Running, Inspirational Track

Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.

- Paavo Nurmi

topic: Positive Thinking, Mind, Pieces, Marathon Runners, Marathon Running

Good things come slow, especially in distance running.

- Bill Dellinger

topic: Running, Giving Up, Distance, Marathon Motivational, Marathon Runners

Stadiums are for spectators. We runners have Nature, and that is much better.

- Juha Vaatainen

topic: Running, Stadiums, Runners, Marathon Runners, Inspirational Runner

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

source: Jesse Owens, Paul G. Neimark (1978). “Jesse, a spiritual autobiography”

topic: Motivational, Fitness, Running, Marathon Runners, Marathon Running

The miracle isn't that I finished. The miracle is that I had the courage to start.

- John Bingham

source: John Bingham (1999). “The Courage To Start: A Guide To Running for Your Life”, p.210, Simon and Schuster

topic: Inspirational, Softball, Sports, Marathon Motivational, Motivational Cross Country Running

Workouts are like brushing my teeth; I don't think about them, I just do them. The decision has already been made.

- PattiSue Plumer

topic: Fitness, Workout, Thinking, Marathon Runners, Marathon Running

Only think of two things - the report of the pistol and the tape. When you hear one, run like hell until you break the other.

- Sam Mussabini

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Running, Motivational Cross Country Running, Keep Running

Now if you are going to win any battle you have to do one thing. You have to make the mind run the body. Never let the body tell the mind what to do. The body will always give up. It is always tired morning, noon, and night. But the body is never tired if the mind is not tired. When you were younger the mind could make you dance all night, and the body was never tired... You've always got to make the mind take over and keep going.

- George S. Patton

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Running, Always Running, Funny Running

Running is one the best solutions to a clear mind.

- Sasha Azevedo

topic: Running, Fitness Motivational, Mind, Clear Minds, Motivational Cross Country Running

My greatest ideas stem from running.

- Sasha Azevedo

topic: Running, Ideas, Stem, Motivational Cross Country Running, Cross Country Running

I believe in the runner's high, and I believe that those who are passionate about running are the ones who experience it to the fullest degree possible. To me, the runner's high is a sensational reaction to a great run! It's an exhilarating feeling of satisfaction and achievement. It's like being on top of the world, and truthfully... there's nothing else quite like it!

- Sasha Azevedo

topic: Running, Believe, Achievement, Top Of The World, Exhilarating

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

- Roger Bannister

source: "The Spirituality Of Running" by Jim Friedrich, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 5, 2016.

topic: Motivational, Success, Fitness, Hurt And Pain, Hurt Pain

To give anything less than your best, is to sacrifice the gift.

- Steve Prefontaine

source: "Pre: Americas Greatest Running Legend, Steve Prefontaine". Book by Tom Jordan, 1977.

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership, Marathon Motivational, Marathon Runners

I always loved running.... It was something you could do by yourself and under your own power.

- Jesse Owens

topic: Running, Endurance, Marathon Runners, Marathon Running, Inspirational Training

I cannot have survival as my only goal. That would be too boring. My goal is to come back in my best running form. It is good for me to have that goal; it will help me.

- Ludmila Engquist

topic: Running, Goal, Survival, Cross Country Running

It doesn't matter whether you are a lion or a gazelle. When the sun comes up, you better be running.

- Abe Gubegna

topic: Running, Lions, Gazelles, Motivational Cross Country Running, Cross Country Motivational

Onions make me sad. A lot of people don't realize that.

- Mitch Hedberg

topic: Funny, Depression, Humor, Marathon Motivational, Inspirational Runner

The only tactics I admire are do-or-die

- Herb Elliott

topic: Running, Tactics, Admire, Inspirational Runner, Motivational Cross Country Running

The woods are lovely, dark, and deep but I have promises to keep....

- Robert Frost

topic: Dark, Promise, Lovely, Marathon Running, Good Poetry

To describe the agony of a marathon to someone who's never run it is like trying to explain color to someone who was born blind.

- Jerome Drayton

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Running, Marathon Motivational, Marathon Runners

When I came back, after all those stories about Hitler and his snub, I came back to my native country, and I could not ride in the front of the bus. I had to go to the back door. I couldn't live where I wanted. Now what's the difference?

- Jesse Owens

topic: Country, Running, Differences, Cross Country Running, Running Marathon

I've always felt that long, slow distance produces long, slow runners.

- Sebastian Coe

topic: Running, Distance, Long, Marathon Motivational, Inspirational Track

Run like hell and get the agony over with.

- Clarence DeMar

topic: Running, Agony, Hell, Inspirational Runner, Inspirational Track

You have to forget your last marathon before you try another. Your mind can't know what's coming.

- Frank Shorter

topic: Running, Mind, Trying, Marathon Motivational, Marathon Runners

You have to wonder at times what you're doing out there. Over the years, I've given myself a thousand reasons to keep running, but it always comes back to where it started. It comes down to self-satisfaction and a sense of achievement.

- Steve Prefontaine

topic: Motivational, Success, Softball, Marathon Motivational, Marathon Running

Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible.

- Doug Larson

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Smart, Marathon Motivational, Inspirational Achievement

In golf, as in life, you get out of it what you put into it.

- Sam Snead

topic: Golf, Marathon Runners, Marathon Running, Inspirational Runner, Inspirational Track

Go in any direction..seeking out new sights just on the strength of your feet and the courage of your lungs.

- Paula Radcliffe

topic: Sight, Feet, Marathon Runners, Inspirational Training, Motivational Cross Country Running

Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.

- Jules Renard

topic: Running, Motivation, Business, Marathon Running, Lazy Man

A race is a work of art that people can look at and be affected in as many ways they're capable of understanding.

- Steve Prefontaine

topic: Motivational, Running, Art, Marathon Motivational, Marathon Runners

A lot of people don't realize that not everybody gets high.

- Molly Ringwald

source: Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

topic: Depression, Role Models, People, Marathon Motivational, Marathon Running

What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

topic: Inspirational, Life, Basketball, Marathon Runners, Marathon Running

When you win, say nothing. When you lose, say less.

- Paul Brown

topic: Motivational, Sports, Running, Motivation To Win, Motivational Cross Country Running

There's no such thing as bad weather, just soft people.

- Bill Bowerman

topic: Motivational, Running, Not Giving Up, Marathon Motivational, Marathon Runners

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