Quotes

[Jeff Frodsham]

Post some of your favorite quotes.

Here are some of mine:
"Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will." -Gandhi
"You miss 100% of the shots you never take." -W. Gretzky
"The gun goes off and everything changes... the world changes... and nothing else really matters." -Patti Sue Plummer
"No negative thoughts cross my mind on race day. When I look into their eyes, I know I'm going to beat them." -Danny Harris
"The minute you start talking about what you're going to do if you lose, you have lost."
"If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, You can become it."
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I also like all the PRE quotes everyone knows and Muhammad Ali.

[AndyBrowning]

I saw one on a shirt during the marathon that stood out:
"The pain of discipline is nothing compared to the pain of regret."

[Adam R Wende]

The Runners' High

It's no longer sport,
No longer just a game.
It has become a way of life.

Every breath is a stride,
Every heartbeat a string of silence.
It is a compulsion from deep within.
It is a passion for glory.
To go through the torment.
To last through the waiting.
To gain that one moment,
Alone with myself.

And only the few,
Who chance to strive,
Can know the experience.
To hear nothing but breath.
To feel nothing but heartbeat.
To feel so much like hell,
Running so close to heaven.

This is the Runners' High.

This is the feeling I live for.
This is the goal I strive toward.
If my chance disappears,
Part of my life would end.

Anonymous

[Ted Leblow]

"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 it must run faster than the slowest gazelle, or it will starve. It doesn't matter whether you're a lion or gazelle - when the sun comes up, you'd better be running."

- Unknown

[Ted Leblow]

"If you ever get a second chance in life for something, you've got to go all the way."

- Lance Armstrong

[Ted Leblow]

"Anybody can do just about anything with himself that he really wants to and makes his mind to do. We are capable of greater than we realize."

- Norman Vincent Peale, author

[Ted Leblow]

"Running is a big question mark that's there each and every day. It asks you, 'Are you going to be a wimp or are you going to be strong today?'"

- Peter Maher, Irish-Canadian Olympian and Sub-2:12 marathoner

[Ted Leblow]

"He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat."

- Napoleon Bonaparte, legendary military leader

[Ted Leblow]

"We run, not because we think it is doing us good, but because we enjoy it and cannot help ourselves. The more restricted our society and work become, the more necessary it will be to find some outlet for this craving for freedom. No one can say, 'You must not run faster than this, or jump higher than that.' The human spirit is indomitable."

- Sir Roger Bannister

[Ted Leblow]

"How does a kid from Coos Bay, with one leg longer than the other win races? All my life people have been telling me, 'You're too small Pre', 'You're not fast enough Pre', 'Give up your foolish dream Steve'. But they forgot something, I HAVE TO WIN."

- Steve Prefontaine

[Ted Leblow]

"I prefer to remain in blissful ignorance of the opposition. That way I'm not frightened by anyone's reputation."

- Ian Thompson, 2:09.12 marathon at the 1974 Commonwealth Games

[Ted Leblow]

"Believe in yourself, know yourself, deny yourself, and be humble."
          - John Treacy's four principles of training prior to Los Angeles 84

[Ted Leblow]

"Dream barriers look very high until someone climbs them.  They are not barriers anymore."
          - Lasse Viren

[Ted Leblow]

"Now if you are going to win any battle you have to do one thing.  You have to make the mind run the body.  Never let the body tell the mind what to do.  The body will always give up.  It is always tired morning, noon, and night.  But the body is never tired if the mind is not tired.  When you were younger the mind could make you dance all night, and the body was never tired...You've always got to make the mind take over and keep going."
          - George S. Patton

[Ted Leblow]

"Mind is everything: muscle - pieces of rubber.  All that I am, I am because of my mind."
          - Paavo Nurmi