Funny Cross Country Running Quotes:

Run like hell and get the agony over with.

- Clarence DeMar

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

Cross country skiing is great if you live in a small country.

- Steven Wright

topic: Funny, Country, Witty, Small Countries, Funny Cross Country Running

I run because it's my passion, and not just a sport. Every time I walk out the door, I know why I'm going where I'm going and I'm already focused on that special place where I find my peace and solitude. Running, to me, is more than just a physical exercise... it's a consistent reward for victory!

- Sasha Azevedo

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Sports, Running, Passion, Marathon Runners, Special Places

Running is the greatest metaphor for life, because you get out of it what you put into it.

- Oprah Winfrey

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

Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up, it knows it must outrun the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning in Africa, a lion wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the slowest gazelle, or it will starve. It doesn't matter whether you're the lion or a gazelle-when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.

- Christopher McDougall

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

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

I believe that the Good Lord gave us a finite number of heartbeats and I'm damned if I'm going to use up mine running up and down a street.

- Neil Armstrong

topic: Running, Fitness, Believe, Physical Fitness, Motivational Cross Country Running

Good things come slow, especially in distance running.

- Bill Dellinger

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

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

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

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

- George A. Sheehan

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

Trample the weak. Hurdle the dead.

- Attila the Hun

topic: Weak, Hurdle, Motivational Cross Country Running, Funny Running, Funny Cross Country Running

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

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

There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

- John Ruskin

topic: Change, Weather, Different, Marathon Motivational, 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

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

I had as many doubts as anyone else. Standing on the starting line, we're all cowards.

- Alberto Salazar

topic: Running, Doubt, Coward, Marathon Motivational, Motivational Cross Country Running

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

Cross Country: No half times, no time outs, no substitutions. It must be the only true sport.

- Chuck Norris

topic: Sports, Country, Half, Inspirational Track, Motivational Cross Country Running

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

The will to win means nothing without the will to prepare.

- Juma Ikangaa

topic: Motivational, Running, Mean, Marathon Motivational, Marathon Runners

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

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

It is a paradox to say the human body has no 'limit.' There must be a limit to the speed at which men can run. I feel this may be around 3:30 for the mile. However, another paradox remains - if an athlete manages to run 3:30, another runner could be found to marginally improve on that time.

- Roger Bannister

topic: Running, Athlete, Men, Motivational Cross Country Running, Inspirational Running

If you run 100 miles a week, you can eat anything you want - Why? Because (a) you'll burn all the calories you consume, (b) you deserve it, and (c) you'll be injured soon and back on a restricted diet anyway.

- Don Kardong

topic: Running, Want, Week, Marathon Motivational, Inspirational Track