Carl Lewis
"It's about morale. With weak legs and a good head, you can go a long way. With good legs and a weak head, you go nowhere."
Paul Kimmage
Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments.
Anonymous
"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up."
Thomas Alva Edison
"Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination are omnipotent."
Calvin Coolidge
"You may have to fight a battle more than once to win."
Margaret Thatcher
"There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job."
George Crane
"Like everyone else, I want to be challenged. I want to find out whether or not I am a coward. I want to see how much effort I can put out . . . what I can endure . . . if I measure up. Running allows that."
George Sheehan, M.D.
"I find motivation within myself. I run track not from a competitive nature, but because I'm a very goal-oriented person."
Gail Devers
"When I was fifteen, I had lucky underwear. When that failed, I had a lucky hairdo, then a lucky race number, even lucky race days. After fifteen years, I've found the secret to success is simple: It's hard work."
Margaret Groos
"Show me a thoroughly satisfied man - and I will show you a failure."
Thomas Edison
"Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things."
Samuel Johnson
"I have an everyday religion that works for me. Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world."
Lucille Ball
"The highest reward for one's toil is not what one gets for it, but what one becomes by it."
John Ruskin
"You have to have already convinced yourself that you are going to win no matter what the other influences are."
Edwin Moses
"Some people create with words or with music or with a brush and paints. I like to make something beautiful when I run. I like to make people stop and say, 'I've never seen anyone run like that before.' It's more that just a race, it's a style. It's doing something better than anyone else. It's being creative."
Steve Prefontaine
"It's funny. I'm attracted to things that don't have any impact on life. People say I've done a great thing for women. I don't think that I have. People say I've given people courage. That makes me feel good, but I don't see how I do that. I think my running is a selfish thing. But it provides the challenge that allows me to feel good about myself. How can I expect to do well in other activities if I don't feel good about myself?"
Joan Benoit
"Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"All greatness is achieved while performing outside your comfort zone."
Greg Arnold