Best Track Running Quotes

We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort.

One chance is all you need.

I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.

To describe the agony of a marathon to someone who’s never run it is like trying to explain color to someone who was born blind.

Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.

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.

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

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

No doubt a brain and some shoes are essential for marathon success, although if it comes down to a choice, pick the shoes. More people finish marathons with no brains than with no shoes.

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.

Make the mind run the body. Never let the body tell the mind what to do. The body will always give up.

It’s very hard in the beginning to understand that the whole idea is not to beat the other runners. Eventually you learn that the competition is against the little voice inside you that wants you to quit.

Now if you are going to win any battle you have to do one thing. You have to make the mind run the body. Never let the body tell the mind what to do. The body will always give up. It is always tired morning, noon, and night. But the body is never tired if the mind is not tired. When you were younger the mind could make you dance all night, and the body was never tired… You’ve always got to make the mind take over and keep going.

You have to forget your last marathon before you try another. Your mind can’t know what’s coming.

When you put yourself on the line in a race and expose yourself to the unknown, you learn things about yourself that are very exciting.

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

The real competition is against the little voice inside you that wants to quit

My thoughts before a big race are usually pretty simple. I tell myself: Get out of the blocks, run your race, stay relaxed. If you run your race, you’ll win… channel your energy. Focus.

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

Run like hell and get the agony over with.

Good things come slow, especially in distance running.

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

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

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

There’s no such thing as bad weather – only the wrong clothes.

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