"7 days without running equals one WEAK"
"Don't throw in the towel; use it to wipe the sweat off your face."
"A race is a work of art."
"To give less then your best is to scarifice the gift."
"Winners make goals, Losers make excuses."
"Start early and begin raising the bar throughout the day."
"Anyone can start, Winners finish!"
"Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there."
"If your a winner you never quit-If your a quitter you never win."
"Everyone looks up at the stars in the sky, but a champion climbs a mountain and gets one."
"There are clubs you can't belong to, neighborhoods you can't live in, schools you can't get into, but the roads are always open."
"We can't all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by."
"Even if you fall flat on your face, at least you are moving forward."
"The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win."
"Top results are reached only through pain. But eventually you like this pain. You'll find the more difficulties you have on the way, the more you will enjoy your success."
"Stadiums are for spectators. We runners have nature and that is much better."
"There will come a point in the race, when you alone will need to decide. You will need to make a choice. Do you really want it?"
"Pain is weakness leaving the body."
"It's better to burn out than to fade away."
"Most mistakes in a race are made in the first two minutes, perhaps in the very first minute."
"First you have to close the gap, then you have to make the gap."
"Worry about him? I never even heard of him."
"Everyone in life is looking for a certain rush. Racing is where I get mine."
"You make it all sound so simple. Run your guts out...collapse at the finish, throw up, that makes a good runner. Sounds like you regret not being more like Prefontaine."
"Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end; then stop."
"Mind is everything, muscle are pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind."
"If the hill has its own name, then it's probably a pretty tough hill."
"I felt my throat start to close up, and I didn't think I was getting enough oxygen. I was scared, and I thought about quitting. But you don't want to quit when you've trained so hard and long for one race."
"There's no such thing as bad weather, just soft people."
"Determination is the Key."
"To be the best, you have to beat the best."
"Theres no "I" in team, but a "U" in suck."
"Set your goals high and don't stop until you get there."
"Dreaming is everything, Practice is everything else."
"Don't think expensive equipment will make up for lack of talent or practice!"
"It's not what happens to you; it's what you do about it that makes the difference."
"It is never too late to become what you might have been."
"When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on."
"The price of greatness is responsibility."
"He who hesitates is not only lost, but miles from the next exit."
"When faced with a challenge, look for a way, not a way out."
" Can't?...or don't want to?"
"Dig where the gold is…unless you just need some exercise."
"Running is a Metaphor for Life;There's always someone Faster than you, always someone Slower. All you can do is hang in there and put your heart into It."
"You can't hit a home run unless you step up to the plate. You can't catch fish unless you put your line in the water. You can't reach your goals if you don't try."
"It's truly the mind that tells you when to give up. If you can defeat your mind, the hills really aren't that bad"
"The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary."
"Winning can be defined as the science of being totally prepared. I define prepartation in three words: Leave Nothing Undone."
"If you can believe it, the mind can achieve it."
"There are only two options regarding commitment. You're either IN or you're OUT. There's no such thing as life in-between."
"The minute you start talking about what you're going to do if you lose, you have lost."
"The best inspiration is not to outdo others, but to outdo ourselves."
"The best and fastest way to learn a sport is to watch and imitate a champion."
"It's not necessarily the amount of time you spend at practice that counts; it's what you put into the practice."
"Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity."
"Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan."
"Winning isn't everything, wanting to is."
"The world is full of willing people, some willing to work, the others willing to let them."
"A winner solves his problems, but a loser is defeated by his."
"Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do."
"Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance."
"If you are good, be better."
"If you do not consciously form good habits, you will unconsciously form bad ones."
"Faith can move mountains, doubt can create them."
"Everyone's a potential winner. Some people are disguised as losers though--Don't let their appearance fool you."
"If a man coaches himself, then he has only himself to blame when he is beaten."
"I'm not interested in athletics, I'm only interested in achievement. Fix your goal and work for it."
"You miss 100% of the shots you never take."
"Anger doesn't win races."
"Sports do not build character. They reveal it."
"Luck is what you have left over after you give 100 percent."
"The five S's of sports training are: stamina, speed, strength, skill, and spirit; but the greatest of these is spirit."
"To succeed, you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you."
"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy."
"In time of difficulties, we must not lose sight of our achievements."
"Problems are to the mind what exercise is to the muscles, they toughen and make strong."
"Everyone fails. It's our actions after, that make us succeed."
" Winners choose the highest summits and see the sun prior to cresting them. There are no limits for those with expectant attitudes."
"A Winner Makes Commitments, a Loser Makes Promises"
"With Ordinary Talent and Extraordinary Perseverance, All Things Are Attainable."
"Arriving at One Goal, is the Starting Point For Another"
"Success- Don't Wish for it, Work for it"
"The Championship Season is Here. Define Your Season Today!"
"All the work you have done since Wednesday has been shit on by some idiots"
"Some People Make Headlines While Others Make History."
"It's not whether you get knocked down, It's whether you get up again."
"If your coasting, your going Downhill"
"Someone may have more God given talent than you, but he should never be able to outwork you."
Last Updated-June 2,2004
