Susan Casey
Running is a metaphor for life; there's always someone faster than you, always someone slower. All you can do is hang in there and put your heart into it.
Unknown
"The greatest improvement is made by the man who works most intelligently."
Bill Bowerman
"A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do."
Bob Dylan
"Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." Oscar Wilde
"The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today."
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
"What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us."
Oliver Wendell Holmes
"The glory of sport comes from dedication, determination, and desire. Achieving success and personal glory in athletics has less to do with wins and losses than it does with learning how to prepare yourself so that at the end of the day, whether on the track or in the office, you know that there was nothing more you could have done to reach your ultimate goal."
Jackie Joyner-Kersee
"I learned that the only way you are going to get anywhere in life is to work hard at it. Whether you're a musician, a writer, an athlete, or a businessman, there's no getting around it. If you do, you'll win - if you don't, you won't."
Bruce Jenner
Do not throw in the towel; use it for wiping the sweat off your face.
Unknown
"Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow."
James Dean
"Don't be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality. If you can dream it, you can make it so."
Belva Davis
"When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you till it seems as though you could not hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and the time that the tide will turn."
Harriet Beecher Stowe
"Don't be afraid to go out on a limb. That's where the fruit is."
H. Jackson Browne
"The formula for success is simple: practice and concentration, then more practice and more concentration."
Babe Didrickson
"In the end, it's extra effort that separates a winner from second place. But winning takes a lot more than that too. It starts with complete command of the fundamentals. Then it takes desire, determination, discipline, and self-sacrifice. And finally, it takes a great deal of love, fairness, and respect for your fellow man. Put all these together, and even if you don't win, how can you lose?"
Jesse Owens
"Whenever faced with a challenge, I dig deep within myself and summon my spiritual and physical forces. This gives me the focus, determination, perseverance, and support I need to succeed."
Gail Devers
"Character is like a tree and reputation like it's shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing."
Abraham Lincoln
"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined."
Henry David Thoreau