Contributed By Sandy | Published: Oct 4, 2004
Inspirational Sayings
| People today tend to overdo. This applies especially, I think, to distance runners and the training they do. What you should do is develop a training program that suits your physical makeup, your stamina, and your ability as a runner. |
| -Gayle Barron, marathoner |
| Winning is nice, but you savor that victory for an evening and it's gone. Competing well is just not to be equated with winning. |
| -Bill Bowerman, running coach |
| It is a universal maxim worthy of all acceptation that a man may have tht allowance which he takes. Take the place and attitude to which you see your unquestionable right, and all men acquiesce. |
| -Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Risk! Risk Anything! Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act yourself. |
| -Katherine Mansfield, author |
| The suggestiveness of summer! A word that is so weighted with the fullness of existence. It means more to me than any other word in the language. |
| Edward Martin Taber, writer |
| The panic of what to do next never goes away. I might be in line at a movie theater, and somebody's slip is hanging the wrong way, and it looks good. But you have to be smart about what inspiration you use. It has to be the right time. |
| Betsey Johnson, clothing designer |
| Strenuousness is the open foe of attainment. The strength that wins is calm and has an exhaustless source in its passive depth. |
| -Rabindranath Tagore, philosopher |
| I know a lot of women want to beat me. I'm not going to let them. |
| -Lynn Jennings, racer |
| When your're young and just beginning, you have a dream, an unrealistic dream, of what you can achieve. Follow that dream, hold onto it. Don't let it disappear. |
| -Franklin Jacobs, former indoor world record holder in the high jump |
| The first thing I had to do was learn that I could do it |
| - Sue Stricklin, runner |
| Make running a habit. Set aside a time solely for running. running is more fun if you don't have to rush through it. |
| -Jim Fixx |
| People get a relief from tension by running. One thing that almost always happens is that your sense of self-worth improves. You accept yourself a little better |
| -Ted Corbitt, former U.S. Olympic marathoner |
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