Margaret Thatcher
"I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it."
Thomas Jefferson
"I think it's the mark of a great player to be confident in tough situations."
Jackie Joyner-Kersee
"I always loved running . . . it was something you could do by yourself, and under your own power. You could go in any direction, fast or slow as you wanted, fighting the wind if you felt like it, seeking out new sights just on the strength of your feet and the courage of your lungs."
Jesse Owens
"It is the illusion that we can go no faster that holds us back."
Kenny Moore
"The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short, but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark."
Michelangelo Bvonarroti
"To accomplish great things we must not only act, but also dream, not only dream, but also believe."
Anatole France
"There are two kinds of success. One is the very rare kind that comes to the person who has the power to do what no one else has the power to do. That is genius. But the average person who wins what we call success is not a genius. That person is a man or woman who has mearly the ordinary qualities that they share with their fellows, but who has developed those ordinary qualities to a more than ordinary degree."
Theodore Roosevelt
"My mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier you'll be a general; if you become a monk you'll end up as the pope.' Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso."
Pablo Picasso
"Being the first to cross the finish line makes you a winner in only one phase of life. It's what you do after you cross the line that really counts."
Ralph Boston
"You have to wonder at times what you're doing out there. Over the years, I've given myself a thousand reasons to keep running, but it always come back to where it started. It comes down to self-satisfaction and a sense of achievement."
Steve Prefontaine
"I always felt that my greatest asset was not my physical ability, it was my mental ability."
Bruce Jenner
"One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries."
A.A. Milne
"Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night."
Edgar Allen Poe
"The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person's determination."
Tommy Lasorda
"Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and follow where they may lead."
Louisa May Alcott
"For every finish line tape a runner breaks - complete with the cheers of the crowd and the clicking of hundreds of cameras - there are the hours of hard and often lonely work that rarely get talked about."
Grete Waitz
"If you set a goal for yourself and are able to achieve it, you have won your race. Your goal can be to come in first, to improve your performance, or just finish the race - it's up to you."
Dave Scott