Track and field, because it was something I could do by myself, one-on-one, me against everybody else. — Jim Thorpe
I personally love to run outdoor fitness trails. I love the meditative value I get when out alone, challenging myself to run faster and higher. — Laurieann Gibson
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
Long distance running is particularly good training in perseverance. — Mao Zedong
I always tell young athletes the same thing, 'Wherever you go, whatever you do, what must your top priority be? Running.' — Haile Gebrselassie
A runner must run with dreams in his heart. — Emil Zatopek
I competed in track for 10 years and have been doing kickboxing forever. — Victoria Pratt
Run often. Run long. But never outrun your joy of running. — Julie Isphording
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
You don't need fancy sneakers to run fast — Jon Bon Jovi
If you want to be a successful runner, you have to consider everything. It's no good just thinking about endurance and not to develop fine speed. — Arthur Lydiard
All athletes need three things: commitment, discipline and hard work. Without that it's hard to keep running. — Haile Gebrselassie
I always loved running.... It was something you could do by yourself and under your own power. — Jesse Owens
A race track is a place where windows clean people. — Danny Thomas
Athletes need to enjoy their training. They don't enjoy going down to the track with a coach making them do repetitions until they're exhausted. From enjoyment comes the will to win. — Arthur Lydiard
Short Running Track Quotes
Do the work. Do the analysis. But feel your run. Feel your race. Feel the joy that is running. — Kara Goucher
It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness. — Seneca
Attitude determines how well you do it. — Lou Holtz
It hurts up to a point and then it doesn't get any worse. — Ann Trason
There is something about the ritual of the race - putting on the number, lining up, being timed - that brings out the best in us. — Grete Waitz
The will to win means nothing without the will to prepare. — Juma Ikangaa
Track And Field Running Quotes
Life is a marathon, not a sprint; pace yourself accordingly. — Amby Burfoot
Running with others can help get you out when you might otherwise blow it off. — Frank Shorter
My thoughts before a big race are usually pretty simple. I tell myself: Get out of the blocks, run your race, stay relaxed. If you run your race, you'll win... channel your energy. Focus. — Carl Lewis
Running reminded me exactly who I am and what I am made of. — Lynn Jennings
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
Mental will is a muscle that needs exercise, just like the muscles of the body. — Lynn Jennings
Fear is gradually replaced by excitement and a simple desire to see what you can do on the day. — Lauren Fleshman
Success isn't how far you got, but the distance you traveled from where you started. — Steve Prefontaine
It is true that speed kills. In distance running, it kills anyone who does not have it. — Brooks Johnson
You must see yourself run the race over and over, time and time again. You must put yourself in critical positions and see how you would react in those positions before the race so when and if they do happen, the feedback is automatic. — Rod Milburn
Song Quotes
I have written a song that says: If you ever lose someone dear to you, never say the words, "They're gone," and they'll come back. — Prince
Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet. — Plato
Whoever says that all music is prohibited, let him also claim that the songs of birds are prohibited. — Al-Ghazali
Take a deep breath, listen to your favorite song and realize everything is gonna be okay, nothing is permanent. — Camila Cabello
Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear. — Unknown Author
I like them brown, yellow, Puerto Rican, or Haitian
Name is Phife Dawg from the Zulu nation. — Phife Dawg
Now here's a funky introduction of how nice I am
Tell your mother, tell your father, send a telegram. — Phife Dawg
Beauty isn't about having a pretty face it's about having a pretty mind, a pretty heart, and a pretty soul. — Unknown Author
No matter what you do, you'll never run away from you. — Barry Mann
Running Training Quotes
Worrying gets you nowhere. If you turn up worrying about how you're going to perform, you've already lost. Train hard, turn up, run your best and the rest will take care of itself. — Usain Bolt
It hurts, but that’s all it does. The most difficult part of the training is training your mind. You build calluses on your feet to endure the road. You build calluses on your mind to endure the pain. There’s only one way to do that. You have to get out there and run. — David Goggins
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
If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it. — Michael Jordan
If you are losing faith in human nature, go out and watch a marathon. — Kathrine Switzer
I have found the Iron to be my greatest friend. It never freaks out on me, never runs. Friends may come and go. But two hundred pounds is always two hundred pounds — Henry Rollins
When I was running training, we would fire a couple of leaders from every SEAL team because they couldn't lead. And 99.9% of the time, it wasn't a question of their ability - it was a question of their ability to listen. — Jocko Willink
I know I'm more on television, and I'm more recognizable than maybe even the players because they run and train, but I just stand there, and my face does all these funny things that everyone can see all the time. — Jurgen Klopp
I was running to catch a train when one of my teachers saw me. He thought I was fast, time me, and later gave me my first instructions in sprinting. I happened to be at the right place at the right time. — Elizabeth Robinson Schwartz
I always tell beginning runners: Train your brain first. It's much more important than your heart or legs. — Amby Burfoot
Running Race Quotes
God gave you your own race to run, stop comparing yourself to other people. They have their race and you have yours. Run hard and don't quit. — LeCrae
The real purpose of running isn't to win a race, it's to test the limits of the human heart. — Bill Bowerman
Everything you need is already inside. — Bill Bowerman
He who starts behind in the great race of life must forever remain behind or run faster than the man in front. — Benjamin E. Mays
The punters know that the horse named Morality rarely gets past the post, whereas the nag named Self-interest always runs a good race. — Gough Whitlam
If you commit yourself to the love of Christ, then that is how you run a straight race. — Eric Liddell
My goal in sailing isn't to be brilliant or flashy in individual races, just to be consistent over the long run. — Dennis Conner
The whole world is run on bluff. No race, no nation, no man has any divine right to take advantage of others. Why allow the other fellow to bluff you? — Marcus Garvey
But if we can learn to fall more in love with the Lord and trust Him in the middle of every storm, we build our endurance to keep running the race. — Kari Jobe
Just put one foot in front of the other. — Austin Peck
Talking of first times Stephanie, I bet your first time was really memorable for you and the captain ot the football team .. and the basketball team .. and the softball team, the track team, the chess club and the pool boy! — Chris Jericho
It is very discouraging to be in a team with white athletes. On the track you are Tommie Smith, the fastest man in the world, but once you are in the dressing rooms you are nothing more than a dirty Negro. — Tommie Smith
Cross Country: No half times, no time outs, no substitutions. It must be the only true sport. — Chuck Norris
When overpowering authority or leadership intervenes in a team, it can affect the team by (1) throwing the team off track, (2) decreasing the motivation of the team, (3) reducing the commitment of the team members, and (4) causing more problems than solutions. — J. Richard Hackman
I actually got dared to audition for the dance team. All my track-and-field buddies dared me to audition, and I was one of the few guys who did it. — Harry Shum, Jr.
I care about this state... and I feel a responsibility to get things done. If we stay healthy and play smart we can be a playoff team. I think we're on the right track. — Steve Mariucci
I always have to add to a team someone who is a highly tactile, list-oriented person who keeps us on track. And call them a COO or executive all-star, or whatever. I need to balance myself with people around this table who are much better at organizing, which is certainly a blind spot of mine. — Alexis Maybank
The most effective CEOs have a primary source for tracking their markets. They meet with their teams frequently enough to keep innovation flowing, to reduce and focus costs, to be energized. They create a tight agenda and they set high goals. — Michael J. Silverstein
I was on the high school track team, believe it or not, and played baseball, poorly but passionately. — Charles Kuralt
Distance Running Quotes
In running it is man against himself, the cruelest of opponents. The other runners are not the real enemies. His adversary lies within him, in his ability with brain and heart to master himself and his emotions. — Glenn Cunningham
When you run the marathon, you run against the distance, not against the other runners and not against the time. — Haile Gebrselassie
The woods are lovely, dark, and deep but I have promises to keep... — Robert Frost
I have a saying 'train, don't strain.' The Americans have the saying 'no pain, no gain' and that's why they have no distance running champions. They get down to the track with a stopwatch and flog their guts out thinking that it'll make them a champion, but they'll never make a champion that way. — Arthur Lydiard
Ask yourself: 'Can I give more?'. The answer is usually: 'Yes'. — Paul Tergat
Walking long distances is fundamental to being a hunter-gatherer, but people sometimes have to run. One powerful motivation is to sprint to a tree or some other refuge when being chased by a predator. — Daniel Lieberman
They say the breaks even up in the long run, and the trick is to be a long-distance runner. — Chuck Knox
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 A. Sheehan
To describe the agony of a marathon to someone who's never run it is like trying to explain color to someone who was born blind. — Jerome Drayton
Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run. — Rudyard Kipling
Running Fast Quotes
Go fast enough to get there, but slow enough to see. — Jimmy Buffett
The secret of my success over the 400m is that I run the first 200m as fast as I can. Then, for the second 200m, with God's help I run faster. — Eric Liddell
God made me fast. And when I run, I feel His pleasure. — Eric Liddell
How fast does a zebra have to run before it looks gray. — Demetri Martin
The future’s too bright to dwell on the past. Life moves fast, run faster. — Frank Iero
My philosophy is that all stocks are bad. There are no good stocks unless they go up in price. If they go down instead, you have to cut your losses fast Letting losses run is the most serious mistake made by most investors. — William O'Neil
It has been said that a pretty face is a passport. But it's not, it's a visa, and it runs out fast. — Julie Burchill
If you run, you are a runner. It doesn't matter how fast or how far. It doesn't matter if today is your first day or if you've been running for twenty years. There is no test to pass, no license to earn, no membership card to get. You just run. — John Bingham
Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals. — George Orwell
I can play basketball, run track, and play volleyball, so yeah, I’ve always been an athlete at heart. — Vivica Fox
Romance, like the rabbit at the dog track, is the elusive, fake, and never attained reward which, for the benefit and amusement of our masters, keeps us running and thinking in safe circles. — Beverly Jones
I did try to come back and listen You never it..I didn't wish it But I did hear every answer ever question It's all about protection stil through the sunlight days I wait Track a ghost through the fog The sun is burning me And you come running out in the wind with me The ocean is your blanket. — Stevie Nicks
Romance, like the rabbit at the dog track, is the elusive, fake, and never attained reward which, for the benefit and amusement of our masters, keeps us running and thinking in safe circles. — Beverley Jones
But talent—if you don't encourage it, if you don't train it, it dies. It might run wild for a little while, but it will never mean anything. Like a wild horse. If you don't tame it and teach it to run on track, to pace itself and bear a rider, it doesn't matter how fast it is. It's useless. — Elizabeth Hand
The best pace is a suicide pace, and today looks like a good day to die. — Steve Prefontaine
The mile has a classic symmetry....It's a play in four acts. — John Landy
I don't train. I just run my 3-15 miles a day. — Jack Foster
Doing something for yourself like running, and using it to test yourself, will only make you feel better about your career or your family role. — Joan Benoit
The real competition is against the little voice inside you that wants to quit — George A. Sheehan
Every time I fail I assume I will be a stronger person for it. — Joan Benoit
I don't like the pitch count! How are you gonna develop your arm? If you're a track man you say, "Hey, you can't run too much." Or if you're a boxer you say, "Hey, you can only box three rounds." It's not right! — Tommy Lasorda
Coffee doesn't do it for me; it's running that gets me going. — Joan Benoit
One of the most jolting days of adulthood comes the first time you run out of toilet paper. Toilet paper, up until this point, always just existed. And now it's a finite resource, constantly in danger of extinction, that must be carefully tracked and monitored, like pandas? — Kelly Williams Brown
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