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Quotes “Natural talent only determines the limits of your athletic potential. It’s dedication, a willingness to learn, and discipline in life that makes you great”- Billie Jean King We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit.- Aristotle “God has given me the ability. The rest is up to
me. Believe, believe, believe.” "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the Gift." -Pre "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 "You don't run at the mouth, you run on the track." - Bill Bowerman (25 year head coach Oregon State & founder of Nike) “The problem with big kickers is they often lose to other big
kickers.” The long run is what puts the tiger in the cat.” Somewhere in the world someone is training when you are not. When
you race him, he will win.” The will to win means nothing without the will to prepare.” "Few of us know what we are capable of doing... we have never
pushed ourselves hard enough to find out." “Hills are speedwork in disguise.” "Pressure is nothing more than the shadow of great opportunity." - Michael Johnson "Every morning in Africa a gazelle wakes up. It knows it must move faster than the lion or it will not survive. Every morning a lion wakes up and it knows it must move faster than the slowest gazelle or it will starve. It doesn't matter if you are the lion or the gazelle, when the sun comes up, you better be moving." - Maurice Greene (attributed to Roger Bannister shortly after running the first sub-4 mile) "Pain is temporary, pride is forever!" - source unknown "Success comes before work only in the dictionary."--Anon. "The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of
comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy." "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 "If you want to win a race you have to go a little berserk." - Bill Rogers -Some people follow their dreams, others hunt them down and beat them mercilessly into submission Seen on the back of a
runners t-shirt I ran and ran every day, and I acquired a sense of determination,
this sense of spirit that I would never, never give up, no matter what
else happened.” Wilma Rudolph Adversity causes some men to break; others to break
records. "The only good race pace is suicide pace, and today
looks like a good day to die." Think big, believe big, act big and the results
will be big. So much of life passes without our being in it at all. Make every day
count. Most people run a race to see who is fastest. I run a race to see who
has the most guts. What I have lost I can afford to lose. What I have gained is
something I cannot do without. You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them. Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do. If you train hard, you’ll not only be hard, you’ll be hard to beat.
The minute you start talking about what you’re going to do if you
lose, you have lost. You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have
control over what you do. It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight
in the dog. There’s no substitute for guts. The world is full of willing people, some willing to work, the others
willing to let them. Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just
sit there. Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance. Concentration is the ability to think about absolutely nothing when
it is absolutely necessary. I learned that if you want to make it bad enough, no matter how bad
it is, you can make it. It’s not necessarily the amount of time you spend at practice that
counts; it’s what you put into the practice. The best and fastest way to learn a sport is to watch and imitate a
champion. Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear—not absence of fear.
Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. Show me a guy who’s afraid to look bad, and I’ll show you a guy you
can beat every time. If at first you don’t succeed, you are running about average. There are only two options regarding commitment. You’re either IN or
you’re OUT. There’s no such thing as life in-between. It’s what you learn after you know it all that counts. Before you can win a game, you have to not lose it. The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack
of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will. Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly. The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I
am. Losers, on the other hand, concentrate their waking thoughts on what
they should have or would have done, or what they can’t do. The best inspiration is not to outdo others, but to outdo ourselves.
You learn you can do your best even when it’s hard, even when you’re
tired and maybe hurting a little bit. It feels good to show some
courage. Winning isn’t everything, wanting to is. If you don’t do what’s best for your body, you’re the one who comes
up on the short end. If you set a goal for yourself and are able to achieve it, you have
won your race. Your goal can be to come in first, to improve your
performance, or just finish the race—it’s up to you. Great thoughts speak only to a
thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind. |
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