Browsing Topic Best Motivational Cross Country Running Quotes

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.

I had as many doubts as anyone else. Standing on the starting line, we’re all cowards.

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

The real purpose of running isn’t to win a race, it’s to test the limits of the human heart.

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

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.

Run like hell and get the agony over with.

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.

The only tactics I admire are do-or-die

Listen to your body. Do not be a blind and deaf tenant.

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.

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.

You have a choice. You can throw in the towel, or you can use it to wipe the sweat off of your face. Gatorade ad The will to win means nothing without the will to prepare.

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 obsession with running is really an obsession with the potential for more and more life.

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.

There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win.

My greatest ideas stem from running.

Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they’ve got a second.

Trample the weak. Hurdle the dead.

The freedom of cross country is so primitive. It’s woman vs. nature.

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