“You must have faith to succeed.”
- Anonymous
“Ability is what you’re capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.”
- Lou Holtz, football coach
“Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever.”
- Lance Armstrong
“Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence.”
- George F. Will
“I dont run to see how fast I am. I run to see how far I can go.”
- Loyal TFS Reader
“It is the mind that rules the body.”
- Sojourner Truth
“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 then just a race, it’s a style. It’s doing something better then anyone else. It’s being creative.”
- Steve Prefontaine
“Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.”
- Steve Prefontaine
“A man can fail many times, but he isn’t a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.”
- Steve Prefontaine
“Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.”
- William Faulkner
“Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.”
- Booker T. Washington
“Once you’re beat mentally, you might as well not even go to the starting line.”
- Todd Williams
“Pain is only temporary,
Pride is forever,
Pain passes with time and Time passes,
therefore Pain is just a strain on the Brain without Refrain,
and that’s why Cross Country runners are Insane.”
- a t-shirt
“Listen to your body. Do not be a blind and deaf tenant.”
- Dr. George Sheehan
“There is no room for frills when you’re fighting the lone battle against yourself. It’s something only a runner would understand.”
- Saucony
“Somewhere in the world someone is training when you are not. When you race him, he will win.”
- Tom Fleming’s Boston Marathon sign
“Weak runners wait for opportunities, strong ones make them.”
- Unknown
“A Runner’s Creed: I will win; if I cannot win, I shall be second; if I cannot be second, I shall be third; if I cannot place at all , I shall still do my best.”
- Ken Doherty
“The only one that limits you is yourself.”
- Anonymous
“Run hard when it’s hard to run.”
- Paavvo
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