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| "To give anything less than your best is to sacrafice the gift." - Pre "Most people run a race to see who is the 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. Nobody is going to win a 5,000 meter race after running an easy two miles. Not with me. If I lose forcing the pace all the way, well at least I can live with myself" - Pre 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." - Pre' "A race is a work of art that people can look at and be affected in as many ways as they're capable of understanding." - Pre "I don't want to win unless I know I've done my best, and the only way I know to win is to run out front and flat out until I have nothing left!" - Billy Crudup as Pre in "Without Limits" "I'd like to work it out so that in the end it's a pure guts race, and if it is I'm the only one who can win it." Billy Crudup as Pre in "Without Limits" "One might say that running is an obsurd past time in which to be exhausting ourselves. But if you can find meaning in running, the kind that it takes to stay on this team, maybe you will find meaning in that other obsurd past time...life." Donald Sutherland as Bill Bowerman former Head Oregon University Track Coach, 1972 USA Olympic Track Coach, Co-Founder of Nike, in "Without Limits" "Cross Country isn't what you do...It's who you are" - Anonymous "There is more satisfaction in being a first rate truck driver than a tenth rate executive." - B.C. Forbes "The gun goes off and everything changes... the world changes... and nothing else really matters. - Patti Sue Plummer, U.S. Olympian "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible." - Doug Larson "Cross country is like poker. You have to be holding five good cards all the time. - Rollie Geiger, N.C. State Cross Country Coach "I like to remain in blissful ignorance of the competition. That way I'm not frieghtened by anyone's reputation." - Ian Thompson "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 "Tough times don't last but tough people do." - A.C. Green "Big occasions and races which have been eagerly anticipated almost to the point of dread, are where great deeds can be accomplished." - Jack Lovelock "I was pushed by myself because I have my own rule, and that is that every day I run faster, and try harder." - Wilson Kipketer "The credit belongs to those who are actually in the arena, who strive valiently; who know the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spend themselves in a worthy cause; who at the best, know the triumph of high achievment; and who, at the worst, if they fail, fail by daring greatly, so that their place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat" - Theodore Roosevelt, U.S. President "Anybody can be the best there ever was. It's not physiological. You can beat the Kenyans. You can beat anybody - if you're willing to pay the price." - Garry Lindgren "Kenyans don't eat Big Macs. Ethiopians don't play N64." - Sports Illustrated |
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