“Pain is Temporary, Pride is Forever”
“Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.”
Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go.
“It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out where the strong stumbled, or how the doer could have done better. The credit belongs to the one who is in the arena, their face marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and falls short again and again: There is no effort without error. But he who tries, who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends themself in a worthy cause, at best knows the triumph of achievement, and at worst, fails while daring. Their place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory or defeat.” -Teddy Roosevelt
“Eventually you learn that the competition is against the little voice inside you that wants you to quit”. – George Sheehan
It is never too late to be what you might have been ~ George Eliot
The glass is neither half full nor half empty. It’s just a glass of water. Drink it already.
“I will not die an unlived life. I will not live in fear of falling or catching fire. I choose to inhabit my days, to allow my living to open me, to make me less afraid, more accessible, to loosen my heart until it becomes a wing, a torch, a promise. I choose to risk my significance; to live so that which comes to me as seed goes to the next as blossom and that which comes to me as blossom, goes on as fruit.” -Dawna Markova
“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
“Get busy living, or get busy dying.” from Shawshank Redemption.
“Be the change you wish to see in the world.” – Gandhi
‘I wish I would’ve run.’ But few have gone to bed thinking ‘I wish I wouldn’t have run.’
“We will either find a way, or make one.”–Hannibal
“To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift.” Prefontaine #2:
A lot of people run a race to see who is fastest, I run to see who has the most guts. ” Prefontaine #3:
Pain is temporary, quitting lasts forever.” Lance Armstrong
“Obsessed is just a word the lazy use to describe the dedicated.” -Anonymous
“Anyone can give up, it’s the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone else would understand if you fell apart, that’s true strength.”
If you have a body, you are an athlete
– Bill Bowerman (co-founder of Nike)
To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift. Steve Prefontaine
We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.”
-Kenji Miyazawa
“To fail is a natural consequence of trying, To succeed takes time and prolonged effort in the face of unfriendly odds. To think it will be any other way, no matter what you do, is to invite yourself to be hurt and to limit your enthusiasm for trying” ~David Viscott
It is never too late to be what you might have been ~ George Eliot
Mary R. Wittenberg, president, New York Road Runners Club:
“A marathoner is a marathoner regardless of time. Virtually everyone who tries the marathon has put in training over months, and it is that exercise and that commitment, physical and mental, that gives meaning to the medal, not just the day’s effort, be it fast or slow. It’s all in conquering the challenge.”
“I thought of that while riding my bike.”
Albert Einstein on the theory of relativity.
“Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what’s going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity.” Gilda Radner
“”The best pace is a suicide pace, and today is a good day to die.” -Steve Prefontaine”
“Steyu” – Cherokee Indian
This translates as “Be Strong”. It is good for Cross Country teams because a) only your teammates will know what it means, thus reenforcing the secret society you are a part of; and b) because this is as long a sentence as you can string together in support of your teammate when you are racing like there is no tomorrow.
“For everyone who thought I couldn’t do it. For everyone who thought I shouldn’t do it. For everyone who said, ‘It’s impossible.’ See you at the finish line.” – Christopher Reeves
“If you are going through hell, keep going.” Theodore Roosevelt.
”For everyone who thought I couldn’t do it. For everyone who thought I shouldn’t do it. For everyone who said, ‘It’s impossible.’ See you at the finish line.” – Christopher Reeves
Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall; but those who hope in the LORD will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint. Isaiah 40:30-31,
“You don’t have to get it right; you just have to get it going.” – Mike Litman
“Everybody wants to know what I’m on. I’m on my bike busting my ass six hours a day. What are you on?” -Lance Armstrong
“The most important thing I have learned about life to this point is –it goes on.” -Robert Frost
“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.” ~Albert Camus
“Make voyages. Attempt them. There is nothing else.” Tennessee Williams
“Do, or do not. There is no ‘try.’ ” by Jedi Master Yoda
When Your Legs Are Tired, Run With Your Heart.
“Nothing worse then knowing that it’s in you and never letting it out”
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.”
“Run when you can, walk if you have to, crawl if you must; just never give up. ” — Dean Karnazes
If everything seems under control, you’re just not going fast enough. Mario Andretti
“Feel the fear and do it anyway.”
“The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not to win but to take part, just as the most important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle. The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well.” -Pierre de Coubertin
“Nothing will work unless you do.” Maya Angelou
“If I continue to do what I’ve always done, then I am going to get what I’ve always got.” Anonymous.
Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, “I will try again tomorrow.” – Mary Anne Radmacher.
Unless you test yourself, you stagnate. Unless you try to go way beyond what you’ve been able to do before, you won’t develop and grow. When you go for it 100%, when you don’t have the fear of “what if I fail,” that’s when you learn. That’s when you’re really living. – Mark Allen
“Energy and persistence conquer all things.” ~Benjamin Franklin
“But everytime we think we’ve reached our capacity for greatness we look up and we’re reminded that that capacity may well be limitless.” ~ Aaron Sorkin (from The West Wing “20 Hours in America”)
It’s supposed to be hard. If it wasn’t hard, everyone would do it. The hard… is what makes it great. (Jimmy Dugan)
”There are clubs you can’t belong to, neighborhoods you can’t live in, schools you can’t get into, but the roads are always open.” – Nike
