99 Sprint Quotes

Following is our list of sprint quotations and slogans full of insightful wisdom and perspective about team sprint.

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Famous Sprint Quotes

Success is actually a short race-a sprint fueled by discipline just long enough for habit to kick in and take over. — Gary W. Keller

SEO is a race, not a sprint. — Neil Patel

Life is a marathon, not a sprint; pace yourself accordingly. — Amby Burfoot

Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other. — Walter Elliot

How you start is important, but it is how you finish that counts. In the race for success, speed is less important than stamina. The sticker outlasts the sprinter. — B. C. Forbes

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

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

It's a hard, simple calculus: Run until you can't run anymore. Then run some more. Find a new source of energy and will. Then run even faster. — Scott Jurek

Simply doing something - ten squats, five sprints, a push-up, anything really - is huge. — James Clear

Runners just do it - they run for the finish line even if someone else has reached it first. — Anonymous

It (racing) is a matter of spirit, not strength. It is a matter of doing your best each little moment. There's never a break. You must have desire, a very intense desire to keep going. — Janet Guthrie

The difference between a jogger and a runner is an entry blank. — George A. Sheehan

The difference between a jogger and a runner is an entry blank. — George Sheehan

During the winter, you head out into the darkness for a run. When spring comes, and the first crocus pokes up its head...you know it was worthwhile. — Nina Kuscsik

Running is special. We've all done it: well, poorly, focused, in fear, being pursued, toward a goal. It's just elemental. Running is like fire. — Rob Delaney

Short Sprint Quotes

  • Knowledge workers train, sprint, rest, and re-assess. — Naval Ravikant
  • Lies run sprints, but the truth runs marathons. — Michael Jackson
  • Business is a sprint until you find an opportunity, then it's the patience of a marathon runner. — Robert Herjavec
  • Writing is a marathon, not a sprint. — Robert McKee
  • Life’s a marathon, not a sprint. — Phil McGraw
  • Double gold means I'm king of the sprints. It shows I'm the best sprinter around. — Justin Gatlin
  • Stamina is the force that drives the drumming; it's not really a sprint. — Neil Peart
  • The race of life is a marathon, not a sprint. — Tony Robbins
  • Any Scrum without working product at the end of a sprint is a failed Scrum. — Jeff Sutherland
  • The sprint is like life ... blink and you miss it. — Steve Backley

Marathon Not A Sprint Quotes

The biggest thing that I've learned is to run the marathon, not the sprint. By that I mean, don't let the little problems that you face in the hour in daily life cast a shadow over the larger joys that you have, over the course of the years. — Jon Foreman

We can help the work of justice by preparing for a marathon, not a sprint. A long obedience in the same direction — Gary Haugen

As a comedian, as an entertainer, there's a lot of downtime. Once you can accept that comedy is a marathon, not a sprint, it gets a little easier. — Iliza Shlesinger

In the end, the American dream is not a sprint, or even a marathon, but a relay. Our families don't always cross the finish line in the span of one generation. But each generation passes on to the next the fruits of their labor. — Julian Castro

If you change your lifestyle, remember it's not a wind sprint, but it's a marathon you're embarked on, and you'll be able to stay there. — Mehmet Oz

Its a marathon, its not a sprint. Ten years. Fifteen years. You've got to get up everyday, with a new idea, a new spin, and you've got to bring it to work, every day — Jack Welch

I try not to be too hard on myself. My husband reminds me that life is a marathon, not a sprint. — Ivanka Trump

Look at your ministry as a marathon not a sprint - build deep foundations of intimacy with God and never let your public schedule get fuller than your time alone with God. — Vicky Beeching

Quitting smoking is rather a marathon than a sprint. It is not a one-time attempt, but a longer effort. — Unknown Author

In the long term, improving investor confidence is a marathon, not a sprint. — John Gavin

Team Sprint Quotes

Stop by stop by stop. Play aggressively. Sprint back on 'D' and pay attention to how we're supposed to guard as a team — Gregg Popovich

Successful innovation is not a single breakthrough. It is not a sprint. It is not an event for the solo runner. Successful innovation is a team sport, it's a relay race. — Quyen Nguyen

I was captain of the netball team, captain of the hockey team and I did my sprinting, but I would push myself. That's why yoga is really good for me because it actually slows me down and finds some sort of space for me. — Jayne Middlemiss

Successful innovation is not a single breakthrough. It is not a sprint. It is not an event for the solo runner. Successful innovation is a team sport, it's a relay race. — Nguyen Quyen

I never really hated any particular sport but out of all the sports, I used to prefer the team games to running and sprinting and those types of things. — Rachel Stevens

Morning Spirit Quotes

I never get out of bed in the morning without having communion with God in the Spirit. — Smith Wigglesworth

I remember hearing that the spirit was always next to you, so I would always make room in my bed for the spirit ... I'd make room for the teddy bears, Jesus and me. And then I'd wake up in the morning, and I'd squashed 'em all. — Michael Fassbender

From morning to night keep Jesus in thy heart, long for nothing, desire nothing, hope for nothing but to have all that is within thee changed into the spirit and temper of the holy Jesus. — William Law

Be so happy that when others look at you, they become happy too. — Harbhajan Singh Yogi

Strange and mysterious name to give to the spirit of Darkness! Lucifer, the Son of the Morning! Is it he who bears the Light, and with its splendors intolerable blinds feeble, sensual, or selfish souls? Doubt it not! — Albert Pike

In that world, you'll be able to rise in the morning with the spirit you had known in your childhood: that spirit of eagerness, adventure and certainty which comes from dealing with a rational universe. — Ayn Rand

If I were asked to explain the Japanese spirit, I would say it is wild cherry blossoms glowing in the morning sun! — Motoori Norinaga

While conservatism and self-protection might be likened to winter, night, and death, the spirit of pioneering and attempting to realize ideals evokes images of spring, morning, and birth. — Daisaku Ikeda

Somehow, I've been blessed to be able to have the young spirit inside - not feel like every year I get a year older. I feel like every year I get a year younger. I don't wake up in the morning with aches and pains. — Rickey Henderson

Often in the morning I will sit in a favorite chair in my study with a cup of coffee, with classical music playing, not trying to form a prayer with words but waiting, listening, until perhaps I sense the Spirit bringing to the surface a word from God. Then I offer just a simple 'Thank you.' — Leighton Ford

Life Is Sprint Quotes

Character produces endurance and persistence when the going gets tough, and life truly is an endurance race, not a sprint. — Zig Ziglar

Life is all about balance: sprinting hard and fast, breathing deep and slow. Working out with my coaches, playing with my kids. Eating whole foods for fuel, enjoying a glass of wine with friends. — Amanda Beard

We're all so busy. We race and race. Life is a sprint. We want to get 'there' so badly. But I wonder if we even know what to do when we actually get 'there'. — Billy Graham

Life is not a sprint. It was never meant to be. It is just a step of faith after another. — Richard Paul Evans

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More Sprint Quotes

You've seen the world, and all you've seen is nothing; and everything, as well, that you have said and heard is nothing. You've sprinted everywhere between here and the horizon; it is nothing. And all the possessions you've treasured up at home are nothing. — Omar Khayyam

Being a good teammate is when you try to sprint down a ball that everyone thinks is going out of bounds. But you go after it anyways and you get it. — Mia Hamm

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

Christianity is not a sprint but an endurance run. Therefore it is not how we start the race that counts, but how we complete it. How we finish is determined by the choices we make, and those are often formed by patterns we develop along the way. — John Bevere

We have this amazing ability to turn on the exactly same stress response worrying about a mortgage that a zebra does when it's sprinting away from a lion. — Robert M. Sapolsky

Forty hour work weeks are a relic of the Industrial Age. Knowledge workers function like athletes — train and sprint, then rest and reassess. — Naval Ravikant

Most of the time I meet my trainer at the gym and we do a lot of everything: weights circuit with cardio, football drills, sprinting with weights on the treadmill. — Charisma Carpenter

The English game is not faster than the German game. Perhaps there are a few more sprints. But there is a different style of football here, partially due to the weather. — Jurgen Klopp

Every day of my life it feels as if I'm fighting my way up an escalator that only goes down. And no matter how fast or how hard I run to try to reach the top, I stay in the same place, sprinting, getting nowhere. — Colleen Hoover

You can do as many sprints as you want but there's nothing like playing in a 90-minute soccer game. There's no better way to gain your fitness, in my opinion, than playing in consistent games. — Abby Wambach

Blocking out is everyday, every drill, all the time. We run sprints every time someone does not blockout. — Rick Majerus

I think my strength is to do a take all the way through. I am definitely not someone who can do a sprint. Maybe I am not that smart, but it takes me a while to find the moment, and I like to be pushed toward it. — Jake Gyllenhaal

What idiocy, to racing into this story and its labyrinths, sprinting away from our happiness among the fresh spring grasses by the oak. — Ian McEwan

Wanting to win races is detrimental to courage. You tend to run too conservatively because you want to wait and sprint. If you are there to force the pace, to CREATE greatness rather than to have greatness, Courageous moves are a part of your race. — Gerry Lindgren

Some think guts is sprinting at the end of a race. But guts is what got you there to begin with. Guts start back in the hills with 6 miles to go and you're thinking of how you can get out of this race without anyone noticing. Guts begin when you still have forty minutes of torture left and you're already hurting more than you ever remember. — George A. Sheehan

Feed and strengthen your body. Fear is physical. When you lift weights or go for a sprint, that energy flows back into your body and restores you to certainty. — Tony Robbins

What motivates people to be late?... Some people are drawn to the adrenaline rush of that last-minute sprint to the finish line. Others receive an ego boost from over-scheduling and filling each moment with an activity. — Harvey Mackay

Blink and you miss a sprint. The 10,000 meters is lap after lap of waiting. Theatrically, the mile is just the right length: beginning, middle, end, a story unfolding. — Sebastian Coe

At Milan when I was younger, I worked a lot on the leg press because I'd lost a bit of my natural speed as my body was changing. I was growing too fast for the rest of my body to cope and I had some knee problems. I worked really hard in the gym to regain these fast sprints. — Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang

You should always give 100%. If you do that then no-one can ask any more of you. Someone once said to me when I was a kid: 'If you're asked to do ten sprints, by all means do 11 but never do nine because you're only cheating yourself'. — Alan Shearer

My players on defense must have a hand-up on every shot. If not, they run sprints. — Rick Majerus

I assure you that the training that you get in a midget, in a sprint car and perhaps in a Silver Crown car is really the kind of experience that makes you into a damn good race driver. — Rodger Ward

I live by a hill. I began walking it and then I began jogging it and then I began sprinting it. — Tea Leoni

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