Browsing Topic Best Cross Country Motivational Quotes

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.

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.

My whole feeling in terms of racing is that you have to be very bold. You sometimes have to be aggressive and gamble.

The marathon can humble you.

The long run is what puts the tiger in the cat.

It hurts up to a point and then it doesn’t get any worse.

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.

It is true that speed kills. In distance running, it kills anyone who does not have it.

There’s no such thing as bad weather, just soft people.

Good things come slow, especially in distance running.

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 it must run faster than the slowest gazelle, or it will starve. It doesn’t matter whether you’re the lion or a gazelle-when the sun comes up, you’d better be running.

Cross Country: No half times, no time outs, no substitutions. It must be the only true sport.

Running is a road to self-awareness and reliance-you can push yourself to extremes and learn the harsh reality of your physical and mental limitations or coast quietly down a solitary path watching the earth spin beneath your feet.

Sweat cleanses from the inside. It comes from places a shower will never reach.

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.

The important thing is the attitude of the athlete, the desire to get to the top.

If you run 100 miles a week, you can eat anything you want – Why? Because (a) you’ll burn all the calories you consume, (b) you deserve it, and (c) you’ll be injured soon and back on a restricted diet anyway.

Stadiums are for spectators. We runners have Nature, and that is much better.

Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

The will to win means nothing without the will to prepare.

I always loved running…. It was something you could do by yourself and under your own power.

Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.

The footing was really atrocious. I loved it. I really like Cross Country; you’re one with the mud.