"Every time I fail I assume I will be a stronger person for it. I keep on running figuratively
and literally, despite a limp that gets more noticeable with each passing season, because for
me there has always been a place to go and a terrible urgency to get there."
Joan Benoit Samuelson, 1984 Olympic Marathon Champion
"Those who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those doing it."
-Michael Johnson's Trainer
"First of all, recognition of shortcomings and a willingnes to make
changes is 90% of developing a positive attitude."
Bjarne Riis
"It's the ability to take more out of yourself than you've got."
Roger Bannister
"Things turn out the best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out."
John Wooden, Basketball Coach
"Races are run with the legs. Marathons are run with the
heart."
Unknown
"There will be days you don't know if you can run a
marathon, there will be a lifetime
of knowing that you have."
Unknown
"Never do and you never will."
Unknown
"Pain is temporary...pride is forever."
Unknown
"Only those who risk going too far can possibly
find out how far they can go."
Unknown
"Accept the challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration
of victory."
General George Patton
"A lot of people run a race to see who's the fastest.
I run to see who has the most guts."
Steve Prefontaine
"The miracle isn't that I finished...the miracle is that
I had the courage to start."
John Bingham
"If you want to run, then run a mile, if you want to experience
another life, then run a marathon."
Emil Zatopek
"The will to win means nothing without the will to prepare."
Juma Ikangaa
"Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out
how
far they can go."
TS Elliot
"Obsessed - the word the lazy use to describe the dedicated."
Anonymous
"The hardest thing about climbing the ladder of success
is getting through the crowd at the
bottom."
Anonymous
"You can't turn back the clock, but you can wind it up again."
Bonnie Prudden
"If you do what you have always
done, you'll get what
you've always gotten."
Anonymous
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