Long distance running is particularly good training in perseverance. — Mao Zedong
Track and field, because it was something I could do by myself, one-on-one, me against everybody else. — Jim Thorpe
In long-distance running the only opponent you have to beat is yourself, the way you used to be. — Haruki Murakami
Running! If there's any activity happier, more exhilarating, more nourishing to the imagination, I can't think of what it might be. — Joyce Carol Oates
During a race where everyone holds their own truth, the finish line is a surprise. — Akiane Kramarik
A lot of people run a race to see who is 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. — Steve Prefontaine
Run often. Run long. But never outrun your joy of running. — Julie Isphording
A runner must run with dreams in his heart. — Emil Zatopek
The decathlon is nine Mickey Mouse events and the 1500 metres. — Steve Ovett
Coaches will say that it's not important for their team to run more, and they prefer to make games the right way. I want to make games only the right way and run 10 km more. — Jurgen Klopp
Running is real. It’s all joy and woe, hard as diamond. It makes you weary beyond comprehension, but it also makes you free. — Jesse Owens
If you want a simple strength and conditioning program, stick to the basics. Run your 400s and 800s, and do lots of power cleans and presses and long heavy sets of squats. — Mike Webster
I always loved running.... It was something you could do by yourself and under your own power. — Jesse Owens
Running is about finding your inner peace, and so is a life well lived. — Dean Karnazes
Running is just such a monastery- a retreat, a place to commune with God and yourself, a place for psychological and spiritual renewal. — George A. Sheehan
Short Cross Country Quotes
Anybody can be a runner. We were meant to move. We were meant to run. It's the easiest sport. — Bill Rodgers
Tears streamed down my face as I crossed the finish line. I was a new person, a runner. — Thomas King
The marathon can humble you. — Bill Rodgers
Running has thrown me into adventures that I would otherwise have missed. — Benjamin Cheever
I competed in track for 10 years and have been doing kickboxing forever. — Victoria Pratt
Running is my meditation, mind flush, cosmic telephone, mood elevator and spiritual communion. — Lorraine Moller
Cross Country Image Quotes
Cross country skiing is great if you live in a small country. — Steven Wright
Loyalty to the country always. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.
Inspirational Cross Country Quotes
Make the mind run the body. Never let the body tell the mind what to do. The body will always give up. — George S. Patton
The only tactics I admire are do-or-die — Herb Elliott
Only think of two things - the report of the pistol and the tape. When you hear one, run like hell until you break the other. — Sam Mussabini
You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.
I cannot have survival as my only goal. That would be too boring. My goal is to come back in my best running form. It is good for me to have that goal; it will help me. — Ludmila Engquist
Listen to your body. Do not be a blind and deaf tenant. — George A. Sheehan
Sweat cleanses from the inside. It comes from places a shower will never reach. — George A. Sheehan
Love your country, but never trust its government.
When I came back, after all those stories about Hitler and his snub, I came back to my native country, and I could not ride in the front of the bus. I had to go to the back door. I couldn't live where I wanted. Now what's the difference? — Jesse Owens
Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired. — Jules Renard
Until you cross the bridge of your insecurities, you can't begin to explore your possibilities.
If you want to tell something to an athlete, say it quickly and give no alternatives. This is a game of winning and losing. It is senseless to explain and explain. — Paavo Nurmi
The nine inches right here; set it straight and you can beat anybody in the world. — Sebastian Coe
Run like hell and get the agony over with. — Clarence DeMar
You cant cross the sea simply by staring at the water
The freedom of cross country is so primitive. It's woman vs. nature. — Lynn Jennings
Dream barriers look very high until someone climbs them. They are not barriers anymore. — Lasse Viren
A runners creed: I will win; if I cannot win, I shall be second; if I cannot be second, I shall be third; if I cannot place at all, I shall still do my best. — Ken Doherty
I love running cross-country...You come up a hill and see two deer going, 'What the hell is he doing?' On a track I feel like a hamster. — Robin Williams
The Soviets pulled their troops out of the north and the Americans out of the south. But a year later, an emboldened North Korean military fatally underestimated America’s Cold War geopolitical strategy and crossed the 38th parallel, intent on reuniting the peninsula. The Americans knew that if they didn’t stand up for South Korea, their other allies around the world would lose confidence in them. If America’s allies began to hedge their bets or go over to the Communist side, then its entire global strategy would be in trouble. Similarly, today, countries such as Poland, the Baltic States, Japan, and the Philippines need to be confident that America has their back when it comes to Russia and China. The U.S., leading a UN force, surged into Korea and pushed Northern troops to the border with China. Chinese troops — not wanting the U.S. within striking distance — fought back and after 36 months both sides agreed to a truce back on the 38th parallel. — Tim Marshall
One of my big philosophies is that fighting is the sport that crosses all borders. I don't care what color you are, what country you come from or what language you speak, fighting is in our DNA. We get it and we like it. — Dana White
The countries of northern Europe have been richer than those of the south for several centuries. The north industrialized earlier than the south and so has been more economically successful. As many of the northern countries comprise the heartland of Western Europe, their trade links were easier to maintain, and one wealthy neighbor could trade with another — whereas the Spanish, for example, either had to cross the Pyrenees to trade, or look to the limited markets of Portugal and North Africa. — Tim Marshall
In today's world, it is shortsighted to think that infectious diseases cannot cross borders. By allowing developing countries access to generic drugs, we not only help improve health in those nations, we also help ourselves control these debilitating and often deadly diseases. — Ron Wyden
Let us look forward to the time when we can take the flag of our country and nail it below the Cross, and there let it wave as it waved in the olden times, and let us gather around it and inscribed for our motto: 'Liberty and Union, one and inseparable, now and forever,' and exclaim, 'Christ first, our country next!' — Andrew Johnson
I saw at once that I had only to rise in my machine, fix my eyes upon the castle, fly over it and speed directly across to the French coast. It seemed so easy that it looked like a cross-country flight. I am glad I thought so and felt so. — Harriet Quimby
I am more anxious than I can express that my men should be not only good soldiers of their country, but also good soldiers of the cross. — Stonewall Jackson
I run because it's my passion, and not just a sport. — Sasha Azevedo
Running is one the best solutions to a clear mind. — Sasha Azevedo
Tomorrow is another day, and there will be another battle! — Sebastian Coe
The important thing is the attitude of the athlete, the desire to get to the top. — Herb Elliott
Running taught me valuable lessons. In cross-country competition, training counted more than intrinsic ability, and I could compensate for a lack of natural aptitude with diligence and discipline. I applied this in everything I did. — Nelson Mandela
Cross Country: No half times, no time outs, no substitutions. It must be the only true sport. — Chuck Norris
As long as Muslims cross this red line - if they commit crimes, if they start beating up women, if they start the genital mutilation, if they start to commit other crimes and honour killings as they unfortunately do in Western Europe many times - if they do that, I believe we should expel them, the same day if possible, from our country. — Geert Wilders
Every athlete has doubts. Elite runners in particular are insecure people. You need someone to affirm that what you are doing is right. — Lynn Jennings
When you put yourself on the line in a race and expose yourself to the unknown, you learn things about yourself that are very exciting. — Doris Brown Heritage
The obsession with running is really an obsession with the potential for more and more life. — George A. Sheehan
I don't limit my taste. There's some jazz that I like and there's some opera. I've been listening to what was essentially country music, but it crossed over to rock. — Rick Moranis
I came from an upper-middle class home, which is always a hard cross for a country singer to bear. — Kinky Friedman
I'm not a big fan of my books going on cross-country road trips. They get arrogant and, next thing, start aspiring to become 'large-print' books. I say, let them stay home and be regular small-print books. — George Saunders
I have not permitted myself, gentlemen, to conclude that I am the best man in the country; but I am reminded, in this connection, of a story of an old Dutch farmer, who remarked to a companion once that "it was not best to swap horses when crossing streams." — Abraham Lincoln
The start of a World Cross Country event is like riding a horse in the middle of a buffalo stampede. It's a thrill if you keep up, but one slip and you're nothing but hoof prints. — Ed Eyestone
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