Track runners Quotes

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

— John Landy

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

— John McKeithen

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

— George A. Sheehan

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

— Sebastian Coe

If you fail to prepare, prepare to fail.

— Steve Prefontaine

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

Good things come slow, especially in distance running.

— Bill Dellinger

We run, not because we think it is doing us good, but because we enjoy it and cannot help ourselves

— Roger Bannister

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

— PattiSue Plumer

Finland has produced so many brilliant distance runners because back home it costs $2.50 a gallon for gas.

— Esa Tikkanen

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

— Ken Doherty

I always loved running… It was something you could do by yourself and under your own power.

— Jesse Owens

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

Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man, but sooner or later the man who wins is the one…

— Napoleon Hill

When I came to New York in 1978, I was a full-time school teacher and track runner, and determined to retire from…

— Grete Waitz

It's important to know that at the end of the day it's not the medals you remember. What you remember is the…

— Silken Laumann

Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.

— Henry James

Don't let worn-out beliefs stop you from moving beyond yourself.

— John Bingham

The best pace is a suicide pace, and today looks like a good day to die.

— Steve Prefontaine

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

— William Faulkner

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

— Sam Snead

Attitude determines how well you do it.

— Lou Holtz

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

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

— George A. Sheehan

Go in any direction..seeking out new sights just on the strength of your feet and the courage of your lungs.

— Paula Radcliffe

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

— Frank Shorter