"Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try one more time.
" - Thomas Edison
"Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.
" - David Horton
"Goals are just dreams with deadlines.
" - Unknown
"Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great." - Kenny Rogers
"By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail." - Benjamin Franklin
"The first step is the hardest." - Marie de Vichy-Chamrond
"Someone may beat me, but they’re going to have to bleed to do it." - Steve Prefontaine
"Human beings are made up of flesh and blood, and a miracle fiber called courage." - George S. Patton
"Run if you can, walk if you have to, crawl if you must, just never give up." - Dean Karnazes
"There is no bad weather, just soft runners." - Bill Bowerman
"Dead Last Finish is greater than Did Not Finish which trumps Did Not Start." - Anonymous
"My sport is your sports punishment." - Anonymous
"There have been many times I regretted skipping a run – but there has never been a time I regretted taking one." - – Anonymous
"If you are going through hell, keep going." - Winston Churchill
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit." - Aristotle
"Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone." - Thomas Carlyle
"Courage is being scared to death – but saddling up anyway." - John Wayne
"The will to win means nothing without the will to prepare. " - Juma Ikangaa
"Once you say you’re going to settle for second, that’s what happens to you in life." - John F Kennedy
"Dream barriers look very high until someone climbs them. They are not barriers anymore." - Lasse Viren
"To dare is to do…to fear is to fail." - John Goddard
"Mind is everything: muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind." - Paavo Nurmi
"Good things come slow - especially in distance running." - Bill Dellinger
"Workouts are like brushing my teeth; I don't think about them, I just do them. The decision has already been made." - Patti Sue Plumer
"A lot of people run a race to see who's the fastest. I run to see who has the most guts." - Steve Prefontaine
"Somewhere in the world someone is training when you are not. When you race him, he will win." - Tom Fleming
"The long run is what puts the tiger in the cat." - Bill Squires
"Those who say that I will lose and am finished will have to run over my body to beat me." - Said Aouita
"Even if I come in last, I’ll always be ahead of the person who didn’t get off the couch." - Unknown
"You have a choice. You can throw in the towel, or use it to wipe the sweat off your face." - Unknown
"Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever." - Lance Armstrong
"Everyone is an athlete. The only difference is that some of us are in training, and some are not." - George Sheehan
"It isn’t the sock, the shoes, the clothes, or even the speed that makes me a runner. It’s the running." - John ‘the Penguin’ Bingham
"Marathon mantra: completion, not competition " - Unknown
"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." - Confucius
"Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will." - Mohandas Gandi
"I'm going to go out a winner if I have to find a high school race to win my last race." - Johnny Gray
"Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible." - Doug Larson
"Tough times don't last but tough people do." - A.C. Green
"Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away." - unknown
"If you can sit then stand. If you can stand then walk. If you can walk then run. If you can run then run hard!" - Martin Luther King
"To dare is to do…to fear is to fail." - John Goddard
