Need more motivation? Here are famous running quotes about the marathon and more.Looking for a new motto? Want to print something on the back of your teams T-Shirt? Find it here. 1. Cross Country Running Quotes The first group of quotes here are about running the marathon. Also included here is motivational and inspirational quotes from runners and other famous personalities. Marathon Quotes
The marathon's about being in contention over the last 10K. That's when it's about what you have in your core. You have run all the strength, all the superficial fitness out of yourself, and it really comes down to what's left inside you. To be able to draw deep and pull something out of yourself is one of the most tremendous things about the marathon. 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.
Marathoning is like cutting yourself unexpectedly. You dip into the pain so gradually that the damage is done before you are aware of it. Unfortunately, when awareness comes, it is excruciating. I thought about how many preconceived prejudices would crumble when I trotted right along for 26 miles. The difference between the mile and the marathon is the difference between burning your fingers with a match and being slowly roasted over hot coals. At the two-thirds mark, I think of those who are still with me. Who might make a break? Should I? Then I give it all I've got. I just run as hard as I can for 20 miles, and then race. Marathon running is a terrible experience: monotonous, heavy, and exhausting. Anyone can run 20 miles. It's the next six that count. I felt like I played in a very rough football game with no hitting above the waist.
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 beatiful for myself and for others. That's why I'm here. Around mile 20 I was feeling so good, I wanted to kiss everyone. The marathon can humble you. We are different, in essence, from other men. If you want to win something, run 100 meters. If you want to experience something, run a marathon. 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.
Motivational Quotes I hated every minute of training, but I said, ''Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'' 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. Anything is possible, but you have to believe and you have to fight. 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. The greatest pleasure in life, is doing the things people say we cannot do. My feeling is that any day I am too busy to run is a day that I am too busy. Cowards die many times before their deaths, the valiant never taste death but once. Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. All it takes is all you got.
Run like hell and get the agony over with. The five S's of sports training are: Stamina, Speed, Strength, Skill and Spirit; but the greatest of these is Spirit. The only tactics I admire are do-or-die. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. No one ever drowned in sweat. Gold medals aren't really made of gold. They're made of sweat, determination, and a hard-to-find alloy called guts. The body does not want you to do this. As you run, it tells you to stop but the mind must be strong. You always go too far for your body. You must handle the pain with strategy...It is not age; it is not diet. It is the will to succeed. Life is short... running makes it seem longer. No negative thoughts cross my mind on race day. When I look into their eyes, I know I'm going to beat them.
Ability is what you are capable of doing. The will to win means nothing without the will to prepare. It is true that speed kills. In distance running, it kills anyone who does not have it. The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, 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." If you believe in yourself and have the courage,
the determination, the dedication, the competitive drive
and if you are willing to sacrifice the little things in life and pay the price for the things that are worthwhile, it can be done.
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?" Other people may not have high expectations of me, but I have high expectations for myself. Only think of two things - the report of the pistol and the tape. When you hear one, run like hell until you break the other. It is simply that we can all be good boys and wear our letter sweaters around and get our little degrees and find some nice girl to settle, you know, down with... take up what a friend of ours calls the hearty challenges of lawn care... Or we can blaze! Become legends in our own time, strike fear in the heart of mediocre talent everywhere! We can scald dogs, put records out of reach! Make the stands gasp as we blow into an unearthly kick from three hundred yards out! We can become God's own messengers delivering the dreaded scrolls! We can race dark Satan himself till he wheezes fiery cinders down the back straightaway... They'll speak our names in hushed tones, 'those guys are animals' they'll say! We can lay it on the line, bust a gut, show them a clean pair of heels. We can sprint the turn on a spring breeze and feel the winter leave our feet! We can, by God, let our demons loose and just wail on! Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you. Workouts are like brushing my teeth; I don't think about them, I just do them. The decision has already been made. I race to win. That's the point. When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on. I had as many doubts as anyone else. Standing on the starting line, we're all cowards. It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness. Ask yourself: "Can I give more?" The answer is usually: "Yes". Do a little more each day than you think you possibly can.
I prefer to remain in blissful ignorance of the opposition. That way I'm not frightened by anyone's reputation. In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, they had better aim at something high. Everyone in life is looking for a certain rush. Racing is where I get mine. Fear is a great motivator. Good judgment is the result of experience, experience is the result of bad judgment. Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed. Running is real and relatively simple…but it ain't easy. Once you're beat mentally, you might as well not even go to the starting line. Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability. |
