Running quotes please?!?

Question

Anyone know of any really good running quotes or poems?

Answer 1

"Running is like mouthwash; if you can feel the burn, it's working."

"When people ask me why I run, I tell them, there's not really a reason, it's just the adrenalin when you start, and the feeling when you cross that finish line, and know that you are a winner no matter what place you got."

Answer 2

It's easier to stay up then to catch up

i read it on someones shirt seconds before i started my second 5K

Answer 3

“To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift.”



"Some people create with words, or with music, or with a brush and paints. I like to make something beautiful when I run. I like to make people stop and say, "I've never seen anyone run like that before." It's more then just a race, it's a style. It's doing something better then anyone else. It's being creative."



"Having a true faith is the most difficult thing in the world. Many will try to take it from you."



“Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.”



“You cannot propel yourself forward by patting yourself on the back.”



“A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.”



“Life’s battles don't always go to the strongest or fastest man,

But sooner or later the man who wins is the fellow who thinks he can.”



“Success isn't how far you got, but the distance you traveled from where you started.”



“Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”



“If you fail to prepare, prepare to fail.”



Something inside of me just said 'Hey, wait a minute, I want to beat him,' and I just took off.

You have to wonder at times what you're doing out there. Over the years, I've given myself a thousand reasons to keep running, but it always comes back to where it started. It comes down to self-satisfaction and a sense of achievement.



What kind of crazy nut would spend two or three hours a day just running?

(This is how Steve reacted in Junior High when he saw the High School Cross country team running)



"A race is a work of art that people can look at and be affected in as many ways they’re capable of understanding."



"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. Nobody is going to win a 5,000 meter race after running an easy 2 miles. Not with me. If I loose forcing the pace all the way, well, at least I can live with myself."



--Other Quotes



"Man imposes his own limitations, don't set any"

-Anthony Bailey



"Human beings are made up of flesh and blood, and a miracle fiber called courage"

-George Patton



Vision without action is a daydream.  Action without vision is a nightmare.

-Japanese Proverb



Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up.

It knows it must outrun the fastest lion or it will be killed.

Every morning in Africa, a lion wakes up.

It knows that it must run faster than the slowest gazelle, or it will starve.

It doesn't matter whether you're a lion or a gazelle

when the sun comes up you'd better be running.

(But, unless you're a runner, you won't understand.)

-Anon



Real athletes run others just play games



Champions do not become champions when they win the event, but in the hours, weeks, months and years they spend preparing for it. The victorious performance itself is merely the demonstration of their championship character.

-- T. Alan Armstrong



The greatest pleasure in life, is doing the things people say we cannot do.

-- Walter Bagehot



My feeling is that any day I am too busy to run is a day that I am too busy.

--John Bryant



Cowards die many times before their deaths, the valiant never taste death but once.

--Julius Ceaser



The nine inches right here; set it straight and you can beat anybody in the world.

--Sebastian Coe

(as he said this Coe held his fingers up to his head)



The great thing about athletics is that it's like poker, sometimes you know what's in your hand and it may be a load of rubbish, but you've got to keep up the front.

--Sebastian Coe



Tomorrow is another day, and there will be another battle!

--Sebastian Coe

(a few minutes after a 2nd place finish in the 800m Olympic Games final in Moscow 1980,

he later won the 1500m , he had been favored to win the 800m)



Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

-- Confucius



All it takes is all you got.

--Marc Davis



Run like h**l and get the agony over with.

--Clarence DeMar

I luv this one:

The five S's of sports training are: Stamina, Speed, Strength, Skill and Spirit;

but the greatest of these is Spirit.

--Ken Doherty



The only tactics I admire are do-or-die

--Herb Elliott



Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors.

Try to be better than yourself.

--William Faulkner

Answer 4

"Pain is temporary, glory is forever"

"Life’s battles don't always go to the strongest or fastest man, but sooner or later the man who wins is the fellow who thinks he can"

"Something inside of me just said 'Hey, wait a minute, I want to beat him,' and I just took off. You have to wonder at times what you're doing out there. Over the years, I've given myself a thousand reasons to keep running, but it always comes back to where it started. It comes down to self-satisfaction and a sense of achievement"

"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. Nobody is going to win a 5,000 meter race after running an easy 2 miles. Not with me. If I loose forcing the pace all the way, well, at least I can live with myself"

"Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up.

It knows it must outrun the fastest lion or it will be killed.

Every morning in Africa, a lion wakes up.

It knows that it must run faster than the slowest gazelle, or it will starve.

It doesn't matter whether you're a lion or a gazelle

when the sun comes up you'd better be running.

(But, unless you're a runner, you won't understand.)"

"Champions do not become champions when they win the event, but in the hours, weeks, months and years they spend preparing for it. The victorious performance itself is merely the demonstration of their championship character"

"Run like h**l and get the agony over with"

"You have a choice. You can throw in the towel, or you can use it to wipe the sweat off of your face"

"Running is a mental sport...and we're all insane!"

Answer 5

"The only good race pace is suicide pace, and today looks like a good day to die."

Steve Prefontaine

Answer 6

Pain is just weakness leaving your body.

Answer 7

"A race isnt something to see who is faster. A race is to see who has the most guts." - Pre