Track Running Quotes:

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

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

- John Landy

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

One chance is all you need.

- Jesse Owens

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

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

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

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

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

Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.

- Henry James

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

The obsession with running is really an obsession with the potential for more and more life.

- George A. Sheehan

topic: Running, Obsession, Motivational Cross Country Running, Distance Runner, Distance Running

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

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

To win without risk is to triumph without glory.

- Pierre Corneille

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

When you put yourself on the line in a race and expose yourself to the unknown, you learn things about yourself that are very exciting.

- Doris Brown Heritage

topic: Running, Race, Lines, Race Day, Race Motivational

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

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

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

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 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

Winners never quit and quitters never win.

- Vince Lombardi

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

Life is often compared to a marathon, but I think it is more like being a sprinter; long stretches of hard work punctuated by brief moments in which we are given the opportunity to perform at our best.

- Michael Johnson

topic: Motivational, Running, Hard Work, Marathon Motivational, 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

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

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

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

- Billy Connolly

topic: Being Happy, Weather, Clothes, 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

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

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

Your body will argue that there is no justifiable reason to continue. Your only recourse is to call on your spirit, which fortunately functions independently of logic.

- Tim Noakes

topic: Sports, Body, Arguing, Marathon Motivational, Funny 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

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 cannot propel yourself forward by patting yourself on the back.

- Steve Prefontaine

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

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

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

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

- Lowell Thomas

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

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

- Paul Brown

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

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

- John Ruskin

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

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

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

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

- Confucius

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

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

But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep.

- Robert Frost

source: "Stopping byWoods on a Snowy Evening" l. 13 (1923)

topic: Love, Inspirational, Sleep, Marathon Running, Broken Promises

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

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

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

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

- Bill Bowerman

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

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

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