Track running Quotes

Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.

— Henry James

If you can't win, make the one ahead of you break the record.

— John McKeithen

The woods are lovely, dark, and deep but I have promises to keep…

— Robert Frost

The mile has a classic symmetry…It's a play in four acts.

— John Landy

If you fail to prepare, prepare to fail.

— Steve Prefontaine

I've always felt that long, slow distance produces long, slow runners.

— Sebastian Coe

Don't bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself.

— William Faulkner

It hurts up to a point and then it doesn't get any worse.

— Ann Trason

Some people create with words or with music or with a brush and paints. I like to make something beautiful when I…

— Steve Prefontaine

The obsession with running is really an obsession with the potential for more and more life.

— George A. Sheehan

American naturalist John Burroughs put it, “A man can fail many times, but he isn’t a failure until he begins to blame…

— Jeff Olson

When you put yourself on the line in a race and expose yourself to the unknown, you learn things about yourself that…

— Doris Brown Heritage

The five S's of sports training are: stamina, speed, strength, skill, and spirit; but the greatest of these is spirit.

— Ken Doherty

If culture was a railroad, I can see the tracks running from the Spirituals to the Hip Hop Nation.

— Nikki Giovanni

The gun goes off and everthing changes... the world changes... and nothing else really matters.

— PattiSue Plumer

The real competition is against the little voice inside you that wants to quit

— George A. Sheehan

If you run 100 miles a week, you can eat anything you want - Why? Because (a) you'll burn all the calories…

— Don Kardong

The body does not want you to do this. As you run, it tells you to stop but the mind must be…

— Jacqueline Gareau

No doubt a brain and some shoes are essential for marathon success, although if it comes down to a choice, pick the…

— Don Kardong

You must see yourself run the race over and over, time and time again. You must put yourself in critical positions and…

— Rod Milburn

My thoughts before a big race are usually pretty simple. I tell myself: Get out of the blocks, run your race, stay…

— Carl Lewis

Good things come slow, especially in distance running.

— Bill Dellinger

Tomorrow is another day, and there will be another battle!

— Sebastian Coe

There's no such thing as bad weather - only the wrong clothes.

— Billy Connolly

Attitude determines how well you do it.

— Lou Holtz

In golf, as in life, you get out of it what you put into it.

— Sam Snead

Im running in a race and people are on the other track, I'm running with myself

— Shahrukh Khan

To describe the agony of a marathon to someone who's never run it is like trying to explain color to someone who…

— Jerome Drayton

Cross Country: No half times, no time outs, no substitutions. It must be the only true sport.

— Chuck Norris

Make the mind run the body. Never let the body tell the mind what to do. The body will always give up.

— George S. Patton

It is true that speed kills. In distance running, it kills anyone who does not have it.

— Brooks Johnson

You have to forget your last marathon before you try another. Your mind can't know what's coming.

— Frank Shorter