Running Track Quotes:

If you can't win, make the one ahead of you break the record.

- John McKeithen

topic: Sports, Winning, Records, Funny Running, Running Funny

The mile has a classic symmetry....It's a play in four acts.

- John Landy

topic: Running, Play, Four, Distance Runner, Distance Running

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

Run like hell and get the agony over with.

- Clarence DeMar

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

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

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

- Steve Prefontaine

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

Good things come slow, especially in distance running.

- Bill Dellinger

topic: Running, Giving Up, Distance, 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

My thoughts before a big race are usually pretty simple. I tell myself: Get out of the blocks, run your race, stay relaxed. If you run your race, you'll win... channel your energy. Focus.

- Carl Lewis

source: Carl Lewis, Jeffrey Marx (1992). “Inside track: my professional life in amateur track and field”, Fireside

topic: Running, Block, Athlete, Marathon Running, Sports Spirit

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

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

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

- Lowell Thomas

topic: Motivational, Success, Thinking, 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

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

- Sebastian Coe

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.

- Henry James

topic: Art, Philosophy, History, Marathon Running, Inspirational Runner

The gun goes off and everthing changes... the world changes... and nothing else really matters.

- PattiSue Plumer

topic: Running, Gun, World, Cross Country Running, Running Track

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

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

If you fail to prepare, prepare to fail.

- Steve Prefontaine

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

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

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

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

You must see yourself run the race over and over, time and time again. You must put yourself in critical positions and see how you would react in those positions before the race so when and if they do happen, the feedback is automatic.

- Rod Milburn

topic: Motivational, Running, Race, Running Track, Track Running

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

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

Winners never quit and quitters never win.

- Vince Lombardi

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Success, Best Coaches, Just Give Up

To win without risk is to triumph without glory.

- Pierre Corneille

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

People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.

- George Bernard Shaw

topic: Business, Winning, People, Daily Work, Marathon Motivational

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

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

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

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

The real purpose of running isn't to win a race, it's to test the limits of the human heart.

- Bill Bowerman

topic: Running, Real, Heart, Motivational Cross Country Running, Great Running

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

- Bill Bowerman

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

One chance is all you need.

- Jesse Owens

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

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Sports, One Chance, Running Track

The battles that count aren't the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself - the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us - that's where it's at.

- Jesse Owens

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

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Running, Inspirational Diversity, African American History

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

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

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

- Confucius

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

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

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

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

- Paul Brown

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