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

There's no such thing as bad weather - only the wrong clothes.
topic: Being Happy, Weather, Clothes, Marathon Motivational, Marathon Runners

The will to win means nothing without the will to prepare.
topic: Motivational, Running, Mean, Marathon Motivational, Marathon Runners
If you can't win, make the one ahead of you break the record.
topic: Sports, Winning, Records, Funny Running, Running Funny
Good things come slow, especially in distance running.
topic: Running, Giving Up, Distance, Marathon Motivational, Marathon Runners
Do a little more each day than you think you possibly can.
topic: Motivational, Success, Thinking, Inspirational Runner, Inspirational Track
There's no such thing as bad weather, only inappropriate clothing
topic: Adventure, Weather, Inappropriate, Marathon Motivational, Marathon Runners
Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
topic: Positive Thinking, Mind, Pieces, Marathon Runners, Marathon Running
Ask yourself: 'Can I give more?'. The answer is usually: 'Yes'.
source: "Coeurs d'athlètes". Sport/Documentary, 2003.
topic: Running, Giving, Answers, Marathon Motivational, Marathon Runners
topic: Running, Challenges, Racing, Marathon Motivational, Marathon Runners
To give anything less than your best, is to sacrifice the gift.
source: "Pre: Americas Greatest Running Legend, Steve Prefontaine". Book by Tom Jordan, 1977.
topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership, Marathon Motivational, Marathon Runners
The gun goes off and everthing changes... the world changes... and nothing else really matters.
topic: Running, Gun, World, Cross Country Running, Running Track
You cannot propel yourself forward by patting yourself on the back.
topic: Running, Inspirational Runner, Inspirational Track, Airborne, Cross Country Motivational
topic: Inspirational, Sports, Fitness, Inspirational Runner, Sports Spirit
source: Sir Roger Bannister (2011). “The First Four Minutes”, p.142, The History Press
topic: Motivational, Sports, Running, Marathon Motivational, Marathon Runners
Mental will is a muscle that needs exercise, just like the muscles of the body.
topic: Motivational, Running, Exercise, Marathon Motivational, Marathon Runners
Tomorrow is another day, and there will be another battle!
source: "Olympian ambitions" by Clare Balding, www.theguardian.com. February 12, 2005.
topic: Running, Battle, Another Day, Inspirational Track, Inspirational Running
Run like hell and get the agony over with.
topic: Running, Agony, Hell, Inspirational Runner, Inspirational Track
In golf, as in life, you get out of it what you put into it.
topic: Golf, Marathon Runners, Marathon Running, Inspirational Runner, Inspirational Track
Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
topic: Art, Philosophy, History, Marathon Running, Inspirational Runner
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
I always loved running.... It was something you could do by yourself and under your own power.
topic: Running, Endurance, Marathon Runners, Marathon Running, Inspirational Training
Success isn't how far you got, but the distance you traveled from where you started.
topic: Distance, Inspirational Track, Distance Running, Running Funny, Running Track
The real competition is against the little voice inside you that wants to quit
topic: Running, Real, Voice, Marathon Motivational, Marathon Runners
You have to forget your last marathon before you try another. Your mind can't know what's coming.
topic: Running, Mind, Trying, Marathon Motivational, Marathon Runners
I've always felt that long, slow distance produces long, slow runners.
topic: Running, Distance, Long, Marathon Motivational, Inspirational Track
The mile has a classic symmetry....It's a play in four acts.
topic: Running, Play, Four, Distance Runner, Distance Running
If you fail to prepare, prepare to fail.
topic: Marathon, Failing, Marathon Runners, Inspirational Runner, Inspirational Track
The obsession with running is really an obsession with the potential for more and more life.
topic: Running, Obsession, Motivational Cross Country Running, Distance Runner, Distance Running
The best pace is a suicide pace, and today looks like a good day to die.
topic: Life, Suicide, Running, Race Day, Race Motivational
source: "Running for the PR" by Dylan Armajani, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 12, 2012.
topic: Running, Strong, Moving, Worn Out, Moving Beyond
topic: Running, Honesty, People, Challenge Yourself, Olympic Spirit
The only reason I would take up jogging is so that I could hear heavy breathing again.
topic: Funny, Running, Sex, Inspirational Track, Funny Running
source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Sports, One Chance, Running Track
To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Strength, Taking Risks, Inspirational Runner
source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Running, Self Determination, Marathon Motivational
source: Strength to Love (1963) ch. 3
topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Inspirational Addiction Recovery, Inspirational Adversity
topic: Failure In Life, Blaming Others, Inspirational Track, Personal Responsibility, Fear Of Failing
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
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.
topic: Inspirational, Positive, Running, Failure In Life, Blaming Others