favorite running quotes

 
Most of mine are exactly about running/exclusive to running

"To give anything less than your best is the sacrifice the gift." - Pre

"Failing to prepare is preparing to fail."- Benjamin Franklin

"Besides pride, loyalty, discipline, heart, and mind, confidence is the key to all the locks."- JoePa

"Winners never quit, and quitters never win."-Vince Lombardi

"Be a dreamer. If you don't know how to dream, you're dead."-Coach Jimmy Valvano

"If you laugh, you think, and you cry, that's a full day. That's a heck of a day. You do that seven days a week, you're going to have something special.-Coach Jimmy Valvano

"No matter what business you're in, you can't run in place or someone will pass you by. It doesn't matter how many games you've won."-Coach Jimmy Valvano

"Impossible is nothing."

"There's no such thing as bad weather, just soft people."-Bill Bowerman

"Remember kid, there's heroes and there's legends. Heroes get remembered but legends never die, follow your heart kid, and you'll never go wrong."-Babe Ruth in The Sandlot


Just a few I remember from the top of my head or I have hanging up in my room.
 
The Pre quote about giving less than your best is my favorite, but here are a few others

7 days without running makes 1 weak.

If you think you can or you think you can't.....you're right!
 
"Running is a mental sport and we are all insane!"

"I'm in no shape to run."

"This isn't sweat, It's my body crying."
 
From my XC team shirts:

Freshman year: "The faster you run, the slower time passes, the longer you live. WE LIVE FOREVER!"

Sophomore year: "Faith has won many a race."

Junior year: "Most look up and admire the stars. A champion climbs a mountain and grabs one."

Senior year: "...Just hard work, faith, and pride."

This year's team shirt: "I just felt like running." - Forrest Gump
 
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A few more from Chris McDougal's Born to Run:

"Make friends with pain, and you'll never be alone." - Ken Chlouber, founder of the Leadville 100

"You don't have to be fast, but you better be fearless." - Aron Ralston, famous for amputating his own arm with a pocket knife to free himself while being pinned under a boulder

"He who loves his body more than dominion over the empire can be given custody of the empire." - Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

"Often, I visualize a quicker, like almost a ghost runner, ahead of me with a quicker stride." - Gabe Jennings, 1500m runner

"Poerty, music, forests, oceans, solitude - they were what developed enormous spiritual strength. I came to realize that spirit as much or more than physical conditioning, had to be stored up before a race." - Herb Elliott, Olympic miler

My favorite of the bunch:

"I don't want anyone to do anything except come run, party, dance, eat, and hang with us. Running isn't about making people buy stuff. Running should be free, man." - "Caballo Blanco," a.k.a. Micah True, a.k.a. Mike Hickman
 
One of my favorites that I saw on a CC Tshirt at a meet:

Cross Country, helping skinny kids make friends for 50 years.
 
Former marathon world record holder Rob DeCastella (Austrailia) on stretching:
"in the Olympics, they give medals to the first 3 across the finish line, not the most flexible."
 
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