Effort Quote by Usain Bolt

The 200 meters is my baby. To me, it's the perfect distance. It's still a true sprint, but it unravels more. You get to…

— Allyson Felix

Your perception of racing needs to be fine-tuned

— Mick Doohan

That's the thing about running: your greatest runs are rarely measured by racing success. They are moments in time when running allows you to…

— Kara Goucher

When you are racing in an able-bodied competition, you're all equal and you go out there and try your best, and that's what counts.

— Natalie du Toit

When one runs 45, 50 or even 100km, for me, is not an ultra runner

— Yiannis Kouros

Even if the pace is slow in championships, you can still sprint well and still power in the last 200, which is always the…

— David Rudisha

Me, if I'm in a long-distance race, I have speed. In the sprint, I don't have so much speed.

— Rivaldo

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

I guess it is the sense of personal satisfaction that racing gives you that I am probably going to miss, because in racing you…

— Bobby Rahal

Obviously, when you think about it, being able to go 200 mph for 300 laps, there's a lot that goes into it.

— Alvin Kamara

You have to know this: running a 100m race is an intense experience. You have a lot of emotion at the end of the…

— Maurice Greene

Racing takes everything you've got -- intellectually, emotionally, physically -- and then you have to find about ten percent more and use that too.

— Janet Guthrie