Inspirational Track Quotes:

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

Some people create with words or with music or with a brush and paints. I like to make something beautiful when I run. I like to make people stop and say, 'I've never seen anyone run like that before.' It's more than just a race, it's a style. It's doing something better than anyone else. It's being creative.

- Steve Prefontaine

topic: Motivational, Beautiful, Running, Marathon Running, Inspirational Track

There's no such thing as bad weather - only the wrong clothes.

- Billy Connolly

topic: Being Happy, Weather, Clothes, Marathon Motivational, Marathon Runners

Good things come slow, especially in distance running.

- Bill Dellinger

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

Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.

- Lou Holtz

topic: Inspirational, Life, Positive, Inspirational Football, Softball Player

Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.

- Will Rogers

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Daily Work, Management Motivation

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

- John Ruskin

topic: Change, Weather, Different, Marathon Motivational, Marathon Runners

I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.

- Booker T. Washington

source: Booker T. Washington (1901). “An Autobiography: The Story of My Life and Work, the Original Brought Up-to-date with Over Half a Hundred Full Page Photo and Halftone Engravings and Drawings by Frank Beard”

topic: Inspirational, Life, Success, Best Success, Inspirational History

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

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

We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort.

- Jesse Owens

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

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Running, Self Determination, Marathon Motivational

A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.

- John Burroughs

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Running, Failure In Life, Blaming Others

It's very hard in the beginning to understand that the whole idea is not to beat the other runners. Eventually you learn that the competition is against the little voice inside you that wants you to quit.

- George A. Sheehan

topic: Motivational, Running, Ideas, Marathon Motivational, Marathon Runners

To win without risk is to triumph without glory.

- Pierre Corneille

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Strength, Taking Risks, Inspirational Runner

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

- Thomas A. Edison

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, About Success, Innovation Inspiration

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

source: Strength to Love (1963) ch. 3

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Inspirational Addiction Recovery, Inspirational Adversity

It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.

- Seneca the Younger

source: "Moral Letters to Lucilius (Letter LXXXIV)". Book by Seneca the Younger, 1920.

topic: Inspirational, Success, Uplifting, Great Sports, Sports Spirit

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

The real competition is against the little voice inside you that wants to quit

- George A. Sheehan

topic: Running, Real, Voice, Marathon Motivational, Marathon Runners

You cannot propel yourself forward by patting yourself on the back.

- Steve Prefontaine

topic: Running, Inspirational Runner, Inspirational Track, Airborne, Cross Country Motivational

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

Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man, but sooner or later the man who wins is the one who thinks he can.

- Napoleon Hill

source: "How to Make Money With Real Estate Options: Low-Cost, Low-Risk, High-Profit Strategies for Controlling Undervalued Property....Without the Burdens of Ownership!". Book by Thomas Lucier, 2005.

topic: Wrestling, Men, Thinking, Inspirational Track, Inspirational Winning

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

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

If you fail to prepare, prepare to fail.

- Steve Prefontaine

topic: Marathon, Failing, Marathon Runners, Inspirational Runner, Inspirational Track

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

Gold medals aren't really made of gold. They're made of sweat, determination, and a hard-to-find alloy called guts.

- Dan Gable

topic: Sports, Determination, Athlete, Great Sports, Inspirational Runner

The only reason I would take up jogging is so that I could hear heavy breathing again.

- Erma Bombeck

topic: Funny, Running, Sex, Inspirational Track, Funny Running

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

- Confucius

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Best Success, Marathon Runners

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

- Bill Bowerman

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

Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.

- John D. Rockefeller

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

topic: Inspirational, Strength, Success, Business Life, Good Success

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

Do a little more each day than you think you possibly can.

- Lowell Thomas

topic: Motivational, Success, Thinking, Inspirational Runner, Inspirational Track

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

The five S's of sports training are: stamina, speed, strength, skill, and spirit; but the greatest of these is spirit.

- Ken Doherty

topic: Inspirational, Sports, Fitness, Inspirational Runner, Sports Spirit

The body does not want you to do this. As you run, it tells you to stop but the mind must be strong. You always go too far for your body. You must handle the pain with strategy...It is not age; it is not diet. It is the will to succeed.

- Jacqueline Gareau

source: "Diversification and Discipline Are Key to Investing in Gold" by Frank Holmes, www.businessinsider.com. August 21, 2014.

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

Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.

- William Faulkner

source: "William Faulkner, The Art of Fiction No. 12". Interview with Jean Stein, www.theparisreview.org. 1956.

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Improving Yourself, Inspirational Track

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

- Juma Ikangaa

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

Don’t be afraid to give up the good for the great.

- Steve Prefontaine

topic: Business Life, Good Success, Inspirational Track, Monday Morning Motivational, Morning Motivation

Success isn't how far you got, but the distance you traveled from where you started.

- Steve Prefontaine

topic: Distance, Inspirational Track, Distance Running, Running Funny, Running Track

Mental will is a muscle that needs exercise, just like the muscles of the body.

- Lynn Jennings

topic: Motivational, Running, Exercise, Marathon Motivational, Marathon Runners

Racing teaches us to challenge ourselves. It teaches us to push beyond where we thought we could go. It helps us to find out what we are made of. This is what we do. This is what it's all about.

- PattiSue Plumer

topic: Running, Challenges, Racing, Marathon Motivational, Marathon Runners

There's no such thing as bad weather, only inappropriate clothing

- Ranulph Fiennes

topic: Adventure, Weather, Inappropriate, Marathon Motivational, Marathon Runners

American naturalist John Burroughs put it, “A man can fail many times, but he isn’t a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.

- Jeff Olson

topic: Failure In Life, Blaming Others, Inspirational Track, Personal Responsibility, Fear Of Failing

Tomorrow is another day, and there will be another battle!

- Sebastian Coe

source: "Olympian ambitions" by Clare Balding, www.theguardian.com. February 12, 2005.

topic: Running, Battle, Another Day, Inspirational Track, Inspirational Running

Champions do not become champions when they win the event, but in the hours, weeks, months and years they spend preparing for it. The victorious performance itself is merely the demonstration of their championship character.

- Alan Armstrong

topic: Athlete, Character, Winning, Marathon Running, Sporting Events

Ask yourself: 'Can I give more?'. The answer is usually: 'Yes'.

- Paul Tergat

source: "Coeurs d'athlètes". Sport/Documentary, 2003.

topic: Running, Giving, Answers, Marathon Motivational, Marathon Runners