Every morning I would rise at the crack of dawn and after the usual ablutions, would get into my sports kit and… — Milkha Singh Copy Share Image
The amazing thing about cross-country is that they don't run indoors - I could put them in extraordinary environments. And it's kind… — Niki Caro Copy Share Image
At Penn State, I ran distance and cross country as a walk-on. I wound up running a lot of marathons, 30-plus. I… — Mark Parker Copy Share Image
Enter with the torch in the stadium. 80,000 people screaming. I was waiting downstairs for the start for 10 hours; I was… — Alberto Tomba Copy Share Image
The start of a World Cross Country event is like riding a horse in the middle of a buffalo stampede. It's a… — Ed Eyestone Copy Share Image
Those days if you drove cross country and you broke down on the side of the road, and the sign says 200… — Rob Zombie Copy Share Image
School cross country runs started because the rugby pitches were flooded. There was an alternative: extra studying. This meant there were plenty… — Gordon Pirie Copy Share Image
I tried to go out for theater or theater arts, but I was too scared or too intimidated. But I had a… — Dana Carvey Copy Share Image
Running taught me valuable lessons. In cross-country competition, training counted more than intrinsic ability, and I could compensate for a lack of… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
“There was no girls' cross-country team at our high school, since cross-country courses were two or three miles long, and, at that… — Gretchen Reynolds Copy Share Image
My first competition outside Kenya was at the 2002 world cross country championships in Dublin, Ireland. I finished fifth in the junior… — Eliud Kipchoge Copy Share Image
