"The only reason I would take up jogging is so that I could
hear the sound of heavy breathing again."
- Erma Bombeck
"Anyone can win, unless there is a second entry."
- George Ade
"Life is short, running makes it seem longer."
- Baron Hansen
"Failure is not failure, but the opportunity to begin
again ... more intelligently."
-Henry Ford
"Why aren't you signed up for the 401K?
"I'd never be able to run that far."
- Dilbert, by Scott Adams (4-02-2001)
"We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline
or the pain of regret and disappointment."
- Unknown
"Don't let fatigue make a coward of you."
- Steve Prefontaine
"Jogging is very beneficial. It's good for your legs and
your feet. It's also very good for the ground. It makes it
feel needed."
- Charles Schultz, Peanuts
"I do not run to add days to my life--I run to add life to my days."
- Ronald Rook
"If the furnace is hot enough, it will burn anything."
- John Parker, Once a Runner
"To hit a mark, aim above it." - Unknown
"Bid me run and I will strive with things impossible."
- William Shakespeare
Cross Country
"School cross country runs started because the rugby pitches
were flooded. There was an alternative: extra studying.
This meant there were plenty of runners on sports afternoons."
- Gordon Pirie
"When I was about 14 or 15, and running in a pretty muddy cross
country race, one of my shoes stuck in the mud and came off.
Boy, was I wild. To think that I had trained hard for this race and
didn't do up my shoelace tightly enough! I really got aggressive with
myself, and I found myself starting to pass a lot of runners. As it turned
out, I improved something like twenty places in that one race. But I never
did get my shoe back."
- Rob de Castella
"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
"We told our guys to hold on for 30 minutes of agony for 12
months of glory." -
Coach John McDonnell, after Arkansas
won the 1993 NCAA Cross Country title
"Cross Country is like poker. You have to be holding five
good cards all the time."
- Rollie Geiger, North Carolina State Coach
"The footing was really atrocious. I loved it. I really like Cross
Country; you're one with the mud."
- Lynn Jennings
"The secret of cross country is to do everything we do
on the track and take it into the bush." - Mike Koskei, Kenya
"Road racing is rock n' roll; track is Carnegie Hall."
- Marty Liquori
"Success is how high you bounce when you hit the bottom."
- General George Patton
"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
"I definitely want to show how beautiful the marathon can be. I am the
opponent of all those who find the marathon bad: the psychologists,
the physiologists, the doubters. I make the marathon beautiful for myself
and for others. That's why I'm here." -
Uta Pippig
"To be able to draw deep and pull something out of yourself
is one of the most tremendous things about the marathon."
- Rob de Castella
"I was unable to walk for a whole week after that, so much did the race take
out of me. But it was the most pleasant exhaustion I have ever known."
- Emil Zatopek's description of the Olympic
Marathon win in Helsinki
"The New York Marathon: a fantastic event." -
Pope John Paul II, 1982
"Anyone can run 20 miles. It's the next six that count."
-
Barry Magee, marathon bronze in Rome, 1960
Grete Waitz
"I'm never going to run this again." -
Grete Waitz after winning her first
of nine New York City marathons
"When I came to New York in 1978, I was a full-time school teacher and
track runner, and determined to retire from competitive running. But winning
the New York City Marathon kept me running for another decade."
- Grete Waitz
"I think it is bloody silly to put flowers on the grave of the 4-minute mile, now
isn't it? It turns out it wasn't so much like Everest as it was like the Matterhorn;
somebody had to climb it first, but I hear now they've even got a cow up it."
- Harry Wilson, coach
"Roger Bannister studied the four-minute mile the way Jonas Salk
studied polio - with a view to eradicating." -
Jim Murray, L. A. Times columnist
"Ask yourself: 'Can I give more?'. The answer is usually: 'Yes'."
-
Paul Tergat
"Running is like mouthwash; if you can feel the burn, it's working."
-
Brian Tackett
"Remember, even 13 year old girls are training three times per day."
- Bro. Colm O'Connel
"Running has never failed to give me great end results, and that's
why I keep coming back for more!" -
Sasha Azevedo
"You must realize one thing. In every little village in the world there are
great potential champions who only need motivation, development and
good exercise evaluation."
-
Arthur Lydiard
"The thinking must be done first, before training begins."
- Peter Coe
"A coach can be like an oasis in the desert of
a runner's lost enthusiasm." - Ken Doherty
"Pressure is nothing more than the shadow of great opportunity."
- Michael Johnson
"The woods are lovely dark and deep, but I have promises to keep,
and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep."
- Robert Frost
"Those who think they have no time for bodily exercise
will sooner or later have to find time for illness."
- Edward Stanley
"I am both proud of and embarrased by that run. What kind
of geek goes out and runs in a cloudburst just before midnight
on his honeymoon? Me, I guess. But probably many others,
too. You know who you are."
- Mark Will-Weber, The Quotable Runner
"Run hard, be strong, think big!"
- Percy Cerutty
"The clock isn't slower; you're just faster." - Adidas ad
"Endurance is not just the ability to bear a hard thing,
but to turn it into glory."
- William Barclay
"Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting
before you get tired."
- Jules Renard
Dr. George Sheehan
"The answer to the big questions in running is the same
as the answer to the big questions in life: Do the best
with what you've got."
"Everyone is an athlete. The only difference is some of us
are training and some are not."
"You must listen to your body. Run through annoyance but
not through pain."
"The difference between a jogger and a runner is an entry blank."
"Its very hard in the beginning to understand the whole idea
is not to beat other runners. Eventually you learn that the
competition is against the little voice inside that wants you to
quit."
"Cross country. Finally a good use for golf courses."
"The trouble with jogging is that by the time you realize
you're not in shape for it, it's too far to walk back."
- Franklin P. Jones
"The truth is you can always run faster but sometimes
the truth hurts."
- from Once a Runner
"Some people follow their dreams, others hunt them
down and beat them mercilessly into submission." - Neil Kendall
"The race is not always to the swift, but to those
who keep on runninng." - Nike Running Poster
"When you win, say nothing. When you lose, say less."
- Paul Brown
"Adversity cause some men to break; others to
break records." - William Arthur Ward
"This is where you will win the battle — in the
playhouse of your mind." – Maxwell Maltz
"By failing to prepare, you are prepairing to fail." - Benjamin Franklin
"Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure
is inevitable." - Coco Chanel
"I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more
I have of it." – Thomas Jefferson
"My whole feeling in terms of racing is that you have to be very bold.
You sometimes have to be aggressive and gamble."
- Bill Rodgers
"It's a simple question: 'How far did you run today?' Runners ask it
of each other, and non-runners sometimes feign interest by asking
about our distances." - Joe Henderson
"I always turn to the sports section first. The sports page
records people's accomplishments; the front page has
nothing but man's failures." - Earl Warren
"The breakfast of champions is not cereal, it's the opposition." - Nick Seitz
"I figure practice puts your brains in your muscles." - Sam Snead
"Sport is a preserver of health." - Hippocrates
"My only feeling about superstition is that it's unlucky to
be behind at the end of the game." - Duffy Daugherty
"It's a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don't quit when
you're tired you quit when the gorilla is tired."
- Robert Strauss
"If you don't do what's best for your body, you're the one
who comes up on the short end.
- Julius Erving
"There is no such thing as bad weather, just soft people."
- Bill Bowerman
"No wonder experience is the best teacher. It has to teach
us things we don't want to learn."
- Unknown
Neil Culbertson
"I always run negative splits when I train. I go out too fast
and feel real negative on the last split!"
- E. Neil Culbertson, former
Guam Running Club President
"Runners don't do drugs, they make their own ... naturally."
- E. Neil Culbertson, former
Guam Running Club President
Graham Rogers
"I didn't realize how competetive I was, until I started racing."
- Graham Rogers
"I don't mind losing so long as no one beats me."
- Graham Rogers
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