Roger Scruton
"Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go."
T.S. Eliot
"Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it."
Lou Holtz
"If you doubt you can accomplish something, then you can't accomplish it. You have to have confidence in your ability and then be tough enough to follow through."
Rosalynn Carter
In running, it doesn't matter whether you come in first, in the middle of the pack, or last. You can say "I have finished." There is a lot of satisfaction in that.
Anonymous
"Don't give anything away. Never make it easy for the guys you are trying to beat."
Bill Bowerman
"Then where does the power come from, to see the race to it's end? From within."
Eric Liddell
"Without labor nothing prospers."
Sophocles
"Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish."
John Quincy Adams
"You can never give up or get down on yourself. A true champion keeps his or her chin up and always takes life one race at a time."
Gail Devers
"Happiness is a form of courage."
Bob Phillips
"If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it."
William Arthur Ward
"Whenever I hear, 'It can't be done' I know I'm close to success."
Michael Flatley
"The important thing is this: To be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become."
Charles du Bois
"We all have days when we just don't seem to have the energy or the interest in working out at peak effort. These are the times to reach inside ourselves and try to find that extra umph that will motivate us."
Kara Leveite Farley and Sheila Curry
"A race is a work of art."
Steve Prefontaine
"Why couldn't Pheidippides have died here?"
Frank Shorter, at the 16-mile park in a marathon
"As is our confidence, so is our capacity."
William Hazlitt
"Character, not circumstances, make the person."
Booker T. Washington
"A run begins the moment you forget you are running."
Adidas
"The man who can drive himself farther once the effort gets painful is the man who will win."
Roger Bannister
"I love to run. This is just part of my life. It's the way I live."
Johnny Kelley