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"nothing worth the effort comes without a few battle wounds"
"To expect perfection is a predilection entirely unnecessary." -Me
"You gotta let your soul shine/ it's better than moonshine/ it's better than sunshine/ damn sure better than rain." -The Allman Brothers.
'Actions geared to the mood of the moment and unrelated to any overall strategy cannot be sustained indefinetely' - Henrey Kissinger
"I try to make the drab journey between waking and going to sleep sound interesting." me
bugga bugga bga: if one can surround themselves with blissfully happy people there shouldn't be too many dull moments.
runningrl22: "Any fool can run in circles, but it takes a wise man to hurdle."
The following quotes by:10k Truth Running Quotes
"Your shoes are only as good as the laces they're attached to."
Greg Sampson
"There will come a point in the race, when you alone will need to decide. You will need to make a choice. Do you really want it? You will need to decide."
Rolf Arands
"Pain is weakness leaving the body."
Tom Sobal, World Snowshoe Racing Champion (also, this quote is on mr. walls' door!)
"Road racing is rock 'n roll; track is Carnegie Hall."
Marty Liquori
"Most mistakes in a race are made in the first two minutes, perhaps in the very first minute."
Jack Daniels, Exercise Physiologist and Coach (i am a proud owner of jack daniels' book "the running formula")
"When you see a guy go down, you smell blood in the water."
Anthony Famiglietti, American Steeplechaser's comment about 3,000 meter Steeplechase leader Tim Broe's fall at the final barrier during the 2001 USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships at Hayward Field in Eugene, Oregon.
"Inevitably, there's some official bellowing: "Come on! Run through the chute! Keep it movin'...Keep it movin'!" But you're bent over, gasping, admiring with salt-stung eyes the good, honest mud of battle, the trickle of blood from a spike wound, splattered on your still-quivering legs and too-old (but still lucky) racing shoes. What could be more beautiful?"
Description of the finish of a Cross Country Race from The Quotable Runner, Edited by Mark Will-Weber
"I ran for myself, not Finland."
Paavo Nurmi
"Why aren't you signed up for the 401K?
I'd never be able to run that far."
Scott Adams, Dilbert (4/2/01)
"There's nary an animal alive that can outrun a greased Scotsman."
Groundskeeper Willy, The Simpsons
"I haven't seen too many American distance men on the international scene willing to take risks. I saw some U.S. women in Barcelona willing to risk, more than men. The Kenyans risk. Steve Prefontaine risked. I risked--I went through the first half of the Tokyo race just a second off my best 5000 time."
Billy Mills, gold medal winner of the 10,000 at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics with a 46-second PR
"Worry about him? I never even heard of him."
Ron Clarke, Australian distance runner, on Billy Mills 10,000 victory in the Tokyo Olympics, 1964.
"It was a very strange, disappointing race in that no one wanted to take it out. That's why I took the lead. I wanted some people to run the real distance and that was frustrating. So I took the pace around the second lap, which in some ways is suicidal...but I wanted the pace to be honest."
Marla Runyan commenting on the Women's 1500 meters at the Sydney Olympics in which she finished eighth.
"I wanted to run my race. I didn't want to sit there and play games and see who could kick the hardest. I wanted it to be a race."
Marla Runyan, Olympian
"When I was about 14 or 15, and running in a pretty muddy cross country race, one of my shoes stuck in the mud and came off. Boy, was I wild. To think that I had trained hard for this race and didn't do up my shoelace tightly enough! I really got aggressive with myself, and I found myself starting to pass a lot of runners. As it turned out, I improved something like twenty places in that one race. But I never did get my shoe back."
Rob de Castella
"If you can't win, make the fellow ahead of you break the record."
Unknown
"I'm going to go and leave my blood all over the track."
Nick Rogers, Olympian (at the trials finished third in the 5,000 taking the race away from the kickers by grabbing the lead with a mile to go and forcing the pace). Met the Olympic "A" standard with a PR of 13:18:50 in his first European track race (14th fastest ever by an American runner).
"I made the school team, and when I won in a match against another school it was the greatest moment of my life--even greater than the European titles. In those school races, I always ran my legs off. There were girls watching and I wanted to impress them. I was foaming and vomiting, but I won."
Juha Väätäinen of Finland
"I don't understand why members of the media have to try so hard for stories. For real fans, the events speak for themselves as well as the performances and the corresponding drama. Excitement in Track and Field does not come from heartbreaking stories. It is in the competition and the buildup."
John Schiefer
"No one competes with the reckless abandon they should. What is a race? A race is a complete all out effort. With a few exceptions, runners run hard, (or think they are running hard) but the races are too controlled. When was the last time you saw an American distance runner finish a race and then collapse on the ground? Ten, fifteen years? I'd personally rather watch someone who runs his guts out, throws his breakfast up and passes out at the end of the race."
John Schiefer
"You make it all sound so simple. Run your guts out...collapse at the finish, throw up, that makes a good runner. Sounds like you regret not being more like Prefontaine....Everyone gripes to me that American marathoners are 'lazy-no-good-for-nothings'. My point is, many people have criticisms, but few have valid answers. I'd like to know what happened to the guys that kicked my ass in high school."
Keith Brantly, in response to John Shieffer's criticism of American distance runners
"A miler's kick does the trick...A miler's kick does the trick..."
Rod Dixon's mental refrain as he chased down and beat Geoff Smith in the last half mile of the 1983 New York City Marathon. Dixon won bronze in the 1500 at the Munich Olympics.
"The only tatics I admire are do-or-die."
Herb Elliott
"Thank God, it's over."
Neil Cusack, 1974 marathon winner
"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...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 black 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!"
Quentin Cassidy, fictional miler in running cult classic, Once a Runner by John Parker
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.
Hal Higdon, "On the Run from Dogs and People"
"Mind is everything: muscle--pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind."
Paavo Nurmi
"You're really Frank Shorter, eh?...What happened to you at Montreal?"
A Charleston cab driver upon learning he was driving Frank Shorter who won Olympic gold in Munich in 1972 and silver in Montreal in 1976.
"If the hill has its own name, then it's probably a pretty tough hill."
Marty Stern
"I felt my throat start to close up, and I didn't think I was getting enough oxygen. I was scared, and I thought about quitting. But you don't want to quit when you've trained so hard and long for one race."
Deena Drossin describing the effects of having been stung by a bee in the back of the throat 100 meters after the start of the World Cross-Country Championships in Portugal. Despite blacking out and falling during the 8k race she finished in 12th place.
"There's no such thing as bad weather, just soft people."
Bill Bowerman
"I love controlling a race, chewing up an opponent. Let's get down and dirty. Let's fight it out. It's raw, animalistic, with no one to rely on but yourself. There's no better feeling than that."
Adam Goucher, Winner 1999 US Nationals 5000 title
"Hard things take time to do. Impossible things take a little longer."
Percy Cerutty
"If it hurts, make it hurt more."
Percy Cerutty
"When you win, say nothing. When you lose, say less."
Paul Brown
the second best running quote that i've ever seen:
"The start of a World Cross Country event is like riding a horse in the middle of a buffalo stampede. It's a thrill if you keep up, but one slip and you're nothing but hoof prints."
Ed Eyestone
and the best running quote of all time:
"It's the road signs, 'Beware of lions.'"
Kip Lagat, Kenyan distance runner, during the Sydney Olympics, explaining why his country produces so many great runners.
again, from the 10k truth
more quotes-
"I don't need alcohol and drugs. From enough sleep I get intoxicatedly happy."
"There's no room for courtesy in monopoly."
"silly rabbits... brains are for humans." -for when i'm surrounded by brainless... rabbits. have you ever wondered how true that is?
"disrespect doesn't do anybody any good."
"in every instance there are people on both sides
with motives less than moral."
    since 6,13,02, about 1:20 in the afternoon, so that meant only about 13 hours of school left before i was out for good. :)
here's a quote: "lifting the cieling." Dani came up with that one while trying to say, "raising the roof." :)
Rachy: only the soundest minds are rested.
we will be naive untill we are all-knowing.
"everybody in my dream was japanese! wait, i think my mother was japanese! ... (they were driving around in the dream) and then the japanese police stopped me and asked if i had any dvds." -alla
"I wasn't sure how I was going to run, but I didn't quit my job, move to Flagstaff, and start sleeping in a car on top of a mountain to be content to just run at nationals." - Weldon Johnson, who ran 28:06 in the 10k and placed 4th at Nationals
from jordy's profile: "I think any athlete who says they are not going for gold is setting their sights too low"
-British Hurdler, Chris Rawlinson, on his plans for 2004
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