Against Quote by Eliud Kipchoge

I was really happy with my race, though. I beat my personal best by 1.2 seconds.

— Bonnie Blair

I'm a competitor. I really enjoyed the race more than just going out and running to run

— Shannon Miller

The one who wins the race in the long run is usually not the strongest or the fastest, but the one who has tried…

— Anonymous

Nobody loves finishing second, as we've seen in past races. It's a sport that you want to get everything you can out of it,…

— Bubba Wallace

My key to victory was that I always went out way too fast. Too fast erases every other race strategy out there. Everyone is…

— Gerry Lindgren

I hadn't a clue who I was racing against. All I knew was how I was going to race.

— Herb Elliott

For myself, losing is not coming second. It's getting out of the water knowing you could have done better. For myself, I have won…

— Ian Thorpe

When I started running cross-country and track in high school, literally every race was a failure.

— Chad Hurley

It was a very strange, disappointing race in that no one wanted to take it out. That's why I took the lead. I wanted…

— Marla Runyan

I raced supremely well. I felt I was as well fitted to do it as I had ever been, and as perhaps I might…

— Roger Bannister

I wanted to run my race. I didn't want to sit there and play games and see who could kick the hardest. I wanted…

— Marla Runyan

The last sort of really low-key race I ran, I realized with about a hundred metres to go, that my heart just wasn't in…

— Cathy Freeman