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Greatest Running Champion Quotes
Best Motivational, Inspirational Quotes / Top Quotations, Sayings & Phrases
from Famous Running Champions, Marathon & Cross Country Runners, Coaches...
 
   

"Often I visualize a quicker, like almost a ghost runner, ahead of me with a quicker stride. It's really crazy. In races, this always happens to me. I see the vision of a runner ahead of me, maybe just 15, 20 meters ahead of me, and the cadence of that runner, which is actually me in the future, is a little quicker, so if I'm going (his rhythm/breathing), then my ghost runner, the vision of me, ahead of me, like opening up and just going for it, is quicker".
Gabe Jennings - Running Visualization for - Distance Running / Sprinting / Track & Field

Mind is everything: muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
Paavo Nurmi - Distance Running / Sprinting / Track & Field

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 - Distance Running / Sprinting / Track & Field

"The longer the race, the shorter the champ."
Manciata - Distance Running / Sprinting / Track & Field

"No one can say, 'You must not run faster than this, or jump higher than that.' The human spirit is indomitable."
Roger Bannister - Distance Running / Sprinting / Track & Field

"The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win."
Roger Bannister - Distance Running / Sprinting / Track & Field

"The mile has all the elements of a drama."
Roger Bannister - Distance Running / Sprinting / Track & Field

"To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice The Gift".
Steve Prefontaine - Distance Running / Sprinting / Track & Field

I don't just go out there and run. I like to give people watching something exciting.Steve Prefontaine - Distance Running / Sprinting / Track & Field

"I've always felt that long, slow distance produces long, slow runners." Sebastian Coe - Distance Running / Sprinting / Track & Field

A lot of people run a race to see who's the fastest. I run to see who has the most guts. Steve Prefontaine - Distance Running / Sprinting / Track & Field

"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, U.S. Olympian - Distance Running / Sprinting / Track & Field

"Running is a big question mark that's there each and every day. It asks you, 'Are you going to be a wimp or are you going to be strong today?'"
Peter Maher, Canadian marathon runner - Distance Running / Sprinting / Track & Field

"To describe the agony of a marathon to someone who has never run it is like trying to explain color to someone who was born blind."Jerome Drayton - Distance Running / Sprinting / Track & Field

"We run, not because we think it is doing us good, but because we enjoy it and cannot help ourselves...The more restricted our society and work become, the more necessary it will be to find some outlet for this craving for freedom. No one can say, 'You must not run faster than this, or jump higher than that.' The human spirit is indomitable."
Roger Bannister, first runner to run a sub-4 minute mile - Distance Running / Sprinting / Track & Field

"Ask yourself: 'Can I give more?'. The answer is usually: 'Yes'."
Paul Tergat, Kenyan professional marathoner

Having a true faith is the most difficult thing in the world. Many will try to take it from you. Steve Prefontaine - Distance Running / Sprinting / Track & Field

Pain is weakness leaving your body. USMC

If I am still standing at the end of the race, hit me with a board and knock me down, because that means I didn't run hard enough. Steve Jones - Distance Running / Sprinting / Track & Field

Run so hard you come in with bloody feet and missing toenails. Rob De Castella - Distance Running / Sprinting / Track & Field

"In running, it doesn't matter whether you come in first, in the middle of the pack, or last. You can say, 'I have finished.' There is a lot of satisfaction in that."
Fred Lebow, New York City Marathon co-founder

"Running is a big question mark that's there each and every day. It asks you, 'Are you going to be a wimp or are you going to be strong today?'"
Peter Maher, Canadian marathon runner Distance Running / Sprinting / Track & Field

"We run, not because we think it is doing us good, but because we enjoy it and cannot help ourselves...The more restricted our society and work become, the more necessary it will be to find some outlet for this craving for freedom. No one can say, 'You must not run faster than this, or jump higher than that.' The human spirit is indomitable."
Sir Roger Bannister, first runner to run a sub-4 minute mile

Few of us know what we are capable of doing... we have never pushed ourselves hard enough to find out.
Alfred A. Montapert - Distance Running / Sprinting / Track & Field

There is no such thing as bad weather, just soft people.
Bill Bowerman - Distance Running / Sprinting / Track & Field

"If you do what you have always done, you will get what you have always got"
Mark Twain

"In my 1976 Training Diary there is a photo of Jack Nicholson from 'One Flew Over the Cukoo's Nest.' It's a facial shot of him trying to pull out the drinking trough and use it to smash one of the barred windows to escape. One of the other patients said: 'Don't be stupid, you can't do that.' Jack replied, 'Yes I can, anything is possible.' He strained his guts out working at it for a few minutes with the veins sticking out of his neck. Of course he couldn't move the bloody thing. They all said: 'We told you that you couldn't do it.' Nicholson looked at them and said: 'At least I tried, you bastards.' To me that summarizes what I think about life." Chris Wardlaw, Australian marathon runner

The will to win means nothing without the will to prepare.     
Juma Ikangaa, Tanzania - Distance Running / Sprinting / Track & Field

Good things come slow - especially in distance running.       
Bill Dellinger, coach - Distance Running / Sprinting / Track & Field

All top international athletes wake up in the morning feeling tired and go to bed feeling very tired.        Brendan Foster - Distance Running / Sprinting / Track & Field

Running is a big question mark that’s there each and every day. It asks you, ‘Are you going to be a wimp or are you going to be strong today?'  Peter Maher - Distance Running / Sprinting / Track & Field

Somewhere in the world someone is training when you are not. When you race him, he will win.   Tom Fleming’s Boston Marathon training sign on his wall

I don’t train. I just run my 3-15 miles a day.    Jack Foster - Distance Running / Sprinting / Track & Field

The long run is what puts the tiger in the cat. Bill Squires - Distance Running / Sprinting / Track & Field

Everyone in life is looking for a certain rush. Racing is where I get mine.   John Trautmann - Distance Running / Sprinting / Track & Field

The mile has a classic symmetry....It's a play in four acts. John Landy - Distance Running / Sprinting / Track & Field

I wanted to run my race. I didn't want to sit there and play games and see who could kick the hardest. I wanted it to be a race.    Marla Runyan, Olympian - Distance Running / Sprinting / Track & Field

I'm going to go and leave my blood all over the track. Nick Rogers, Olympian - Distance Running / Sprinting / Track & Field

Big occasions and races which have been eagerly anticipated almost to the point of dread, are where great deeds can be accomplished.   Jack Lovelock - Distance Running / Sprinting / Track & Field

Fear is the strongest driving-force in competition. Not fear of one’s opponent, but of the skill and high standard which he represents; fear too, of not acquitting oneself well. In the achievement of greater performances, of beating formidable rivals, the athlete defeats fear and conquers himself.    Franz Stampfl - Distance Running / Sprinting / Track & Field

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 Plummer - Distance Running / Sprinting / Track & Field

The pride you gain is worth the pain.  Dennis Ogilvie - Distance Running / Sprinting / Track & Field

Mental will is a muscle that needs exercise, just like muscles of the body.      Lynn Jennings - Distance Running / Sprinting / Track & Field

Dream barriers look very high until someone climbs them. Then they are not barriers anymore. Lasse Viren - Distance Running / Sprinting / Track & Field

Hills are speedwork in disguise.     Frank Shorter - Distance Running / Sprinting / Track & Field

Running hills breaks up your rhythm and forces your muscles to adapt to new stresses. The result? You become stronger.    Eamonn Coghlan - Distance Running / Sprinting / Track & Field

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 - Distance Running / Sprinting / Track & Field

"A lot of people don't realize that about 98 percent of the running I put in is anything but glamorous: 2 percent joyful participation, 98 percent dedication! It's a tough formula. Getting out in the forest in the biting cold and the flattening heat, and putting in kilometer after kilometer." Rob de Castella - Distance Running / Sprinting / Track & Field

Only think of two things - the gun and the tape.  When you hear the one, just run like hell until you break the other.  Sam Mussabini - Distance Running / Sprinting / Track & Field

Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible.  Doug Larson - Distance Running / Sprinting / Track & Field

No negative thoughts cross my mind on race day. When I look into their eyes, I know I'm going to beat them.   Danny Harris - Distance Running / Sprinting / Track & Field

Tough times don't last but tough people do.   A.C. Green - Distance Running / Sprinting / Track & Field

We can't all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.  Will Rogers - Distance Running / Sprinting / Track & Field

Stadiums are for spectators. We runners have nature and that is much better. Juha Väätäinen, Cross Country Runner - Distance Running / Sprinting / Track & Field

You don’t run against a bloody stop watch, do you hear?  A runner runs against himself, against the best that's in him.  Not against a dead thing of wheels and pulleys.  That's the way to be great, running against yourself.  Against all the rotten mess in the world.  Against God, if you’re good enough.  Bill Persons - Distance Running / Sprinting / Track & Field

There are as many reasons for running as there are days in the year, years in my life.  But mostly I run because I am an animal and a child, an artist and a saint.  So, too, are you.  Find your own play, your own self-renewing compulsion, and you will become the person you are meant to be.  George Sheehan - Distance Running / Sprinting / Track & Field

Your toughness is made up of equal parts: persistence and experience. You don’t so much outrun your opponents as outlast and outsmart them, and the toughest opponent of all is the one inside your head. Joe Henderson - Distance Running / Sprinting / Track & Field