Contributed By Sandy | Published: Sep 16, 2006

• "In my business hours I avoid fatigue. I do this by not doing too much work - the only trustworthy recipe." - E V. Knox, writer
  
• "Be silent about great things; let them grow inside you. Before all greatness, be silent: in art, in music, in religion: silence." - Baron Friedrich von Hugel, philosopher
  
• "Seeing is believing, but feeling is God's own truth." - Irish Proverb
  
• "Runners need to take responsibility for the health of their muscles, not just how fast they go Recovery has to be an integral part of training" -Linda Jaros, massage therapist
  
• "I have realized that the past and the future are real illusions, that they exist only in the present, which is what there is and all that there is." -Alan Watss, philosopher
  
• "I traveled the whole world looking for adventure, and found it in my own body." - Unidentified writer-runner
  
• "The individual is what he is and has the significance that he has not so much in virtue of his individuality, but rather as a member of a great human community, which directs his material and spiritual existence from the cradle to the grave. " -Albert Einstein
  
• "Then summer fades and passes. We will smell smoke then, and feel an unsuspected sharpness, a thrill of nervous, swift elation, a sense of sadness and departure." - Thomas Wolfe
  
• "Duty does not have to be dull. Love can make it beautiful and fill it with life." - Thomas Merton, writer
  
• "Do it the right way, which is the long way. You can't cram for a marathon, because the final exam for a marathon will never allow you to be successful if you take shortcuts." -Bill Wenmark, running coach
  
• "At the end of my daily jaunt I was totally exhausted. Then, gradually, a strange thing happened. I began to realize that it was taking me less and less energy to run a mile. I way beginning to get in shape." -David Burhans Jr., runner
  
• "People should be encouraged to prepare properly. We need to teach them to put less emphasis on trying to perform well, and more on having fun, and staying within their range." - Dr. John Bagshaw, advising runners prior to a race
  
• "In a marathon I never let myself think, I've got 26 miles ahead of me. You have to think of your race as it is then and there. At the same time you keep in mind the prospects for the future." -Bill Rodgers, marathoner
  
• "Nothing helps me sort out problems better than lacing up my shoes and taking a turn aound the park." - Judity Kaye, runner
  
• "He has to try running fast and slow, learn from his mistakes, and then figure out his own magic formula." - Roger Bannister, legendary miler, on how runners succeed
  

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