Child Quote by Horace Mann

Kids are afraid that if they race too fast they will get tired. Way too much fear and way too little COURAGE.

— Gerry Lindgren

Different people have different reasons for racing, but one is simply the incentive to get out and run, increase mileage and feel good.

— Hal Higdon

Warnings about children being overscheduled, racing from one enriching activity to the next, first surfaced in the early 20th century.

— Carl Honore

We may train or peek for a certain race, but running is a lifetime sport.

— Alberto Salazar

We may train or peak for a certain race, but running is a lifetime sport.

— Alberto Salazar

When you grow up around racing, you just want to race for a living. It doesn't matter what it is.

— Ricky Stenhouse, Jr

Most runners run not because they want to live longer, but because they want to live life to the fullest.

— Haruki Murakami

Racing teaches us to challenge ourselves. It teaches us to push beyond where we thought we could go. It helps us to find out…

— Anonymous

Your perception of racing needs to be fine-tuned

— Mick Doohan

Kids as young as twelve CAN run 90 minutes, and they can train hard to run fast, BUT they lose something in training hard…

— Gerry Lindgren

When I was a kid, I was a pretty good runner, and there was nothing like winning a race.

— Frank McCourt

Many run primarily for the exercise, but others run to condition themselves for well-publicized races of various distances.

— Joseph B. Wirthlin