Running Quotes

mani/pedi

Here are some good running quotes I came across today. Much needed to get everyone me motivated for the week. Let’s burn off all that amstel and pizza from the weekend. 🙂

Real athletes run others just play games

“The will to win means nothing without the will to prepare.”
-Juma Ikangaa, 1989 NYC Marathon winner

LOVE this one, so true – Nike and their freaking awesome marketing…

“There are clubs you can’t belong to, neighborhoods you can’t live in, schools you can’t get into, but the roads are always open.” – Nike

“Mental will is a muscle that needs exercise, just like the muscles of the body.”
-Lynn Jennings

“Champions do not become champions when they win an event but in the hours, weeks, months and years they spend preparing for it. The victorious performance itself is merely the demonstration of their championship character.” T. Alan Armstrong

 “Racing teaches us to challenge ourselves. It teaches us to push beyond where we thought we could go. It helps us to find out what we are made of. This is what we do. This is what it’s all about.” – PattiSue Plummer, U.S. Olympian

“Every morning in Africa a gazelle wakes up. It knows it must move faster than the lion or it will not survive. Every morning a lion wakes up and it knows it must move faster than the slowest gazelle or it will starve. It doesn’t matter if you are the lion or the gazelle, when the sun comes up, you better be moving.” – Maurice Greene (attributed to Roger Bannister shortly after running the first sub-4 mile)