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"Don’t be reasonable in your desires, be bold and full of dreams, Revel in your passion!"
 - Revel Sports

"If you feel like eating, eat. Let your body tell you what it wants."
- Joan Benoit Samuelson

"It hurts up to a point and then it doesn't get any worse."
- Ann Trason

"I'm going to go out a winner if I have to find a high school race to win my last race."
- Johnny Gray

"I always loved running...it was something you could do by yourself, and under your own power. You could go in any direction, fast or slow as you wanted, fighting the wind if you felt like it, seeking out new sights just on the strength of your feet and the courage of your lungs."
- Jesse Owens

"If you start to feel good during an ultra, don't' worry you will get over it."
- Gene Thibeault

"Most people run a race to see who is fastest. I run a race to see who has the most guts."
- Steve Prefontaine

"The gun goes off and everything changes... the world changes... and nothing else really matters."
- Patti Sue Plummer

"You have to forget your last marathon before you try another. Your mind can't know what's coming."
- Frank Shorter

"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

"The woods are lovely dark and deep, but I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep."
- Robert Frost

"Pressure is nothing more than the shadow of great opportunity." - Michael Johnson

"I have met my hero, and he is me."
- George Sheehan

"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

"Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired."
- Jules Renard

"I cannot have survival as my only goal. That would be too boring. My goal is to come back in my best running form. It is good for me to have that goal; it will help me."
- Ludmila Engquist (Olympic champion hurdler facing cancer and chemotherapy)

"When I came back, after all those stories about Hitler and his snub, I came back to my native country, and I could not ride in the front of the bus. I had to go to the back door. I couldn't live where I wanted. Now what's the difference?"
- Jesse Owens

"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

"What matters is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog."
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

"The will to win means nothing if you haven't the will to prepare." - Juma Ikangaa, 1989 NYC Marathon winner -

"I've always felt that long, slow distance produces long, slow runners."
- Sebastian Coe

"We can't all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by."
- Will Rogers

"I like running because it's a challenge. If you run hard, there's the pain - and you've got to work your way through the pain. You know, lately it seems all you hear is? Don't overdo it' and? Don't push yourself.' Well, I think that's a lot of bull. If you push the human body, it will respond."
- Bob Clarke, Philadelphia Flyers general manager, NHL Hall of Fame

"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." - Emil Zatopek

Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one gets the prize? Run in such a way as to get the prize.
1 Corinthians 9:24

Only think of two things - the gun and the tape. When you hear the one, just run like hell until you break the other.
-Sam Mussabini

"A lot of people run a race to see who's the fastest. I run to see who has the most guts."
-Steve Prefontaine

Jogging is very beneficial. It's good for your legs and your feet. It's also very good for the ground. It makes it feel needed.
~Charles Schulz, - Peanuts

The only reason I would take up jogging is so that I could hear heavy breathing again.
-Erma Bombeck

You don’t run against a bloody stop watch, do you hear? A runner runs against himself, against the best that's in him. Not against a dead thing of wheels and pulleys. That's the way to be great, running against yourself. Against all the rotten mess in the world. Against God, if you’re good enough.
- Bill Persons

To a runner, a side stitch is like a car alarm. It signifies something is wrong, but you ignore it until it goes away.
- Author Unknown

I don't jog. If I die I want to be sick. ~Abe Lemmons

It's unnatural for people to run around the city streets unless they are thieves or victims. It makes people nervous to see someone running. I know that when I see someone running on my street, my instincts tell me to let the dog go after him. ~Mike Royko

Only think of two things - the gun and the tape. When you hear the one, just run like hell until you break the other. ~Sam Mussabini

The trouble with jogging is that the ice falls out of your glass. ~Martin Mull

Finland has produced so many brilliant distance runners because back home it costs $2.50 a gallon for gas. ~Esa Tikkannen, 1979

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