“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
“The thing about Pre is that he ran as hard as he could every race, and if you were going to beat him, you were going to have to run harder than he did.”
- Bob Kennedy
“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
“Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they’ve got a second. Give your dreams all you’ve got and you’ll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.”
- William James
“Just go out there and do what you’ve got to do.”
- Martina Navratilova, tennis legend and a premier vegetarian athlete
Believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail.
- William Faulkner
Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.
- Goethe
Champions keep playing until they get it right.
- Billy Jean King
“Failure is the path of least persistence.”
- Unknown
How do you go from where you are to where you want to be? I think you have to have an enthusiasm for life. You have to have a dream, a goal, and you have to be willing to work for it.
- Jim Valvano
He only earns his freedom and his life, who takes them every day by storm.
- Goethe
Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure… than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
- Theodore Roosevelt
“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
- Albert Camus
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