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Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man, but sooner or later the man who wins is the one who thinks he can.
Sep 17, 2025
Success isn't how far you got, but the distance you traveled from where you started.
The real competition is against the little voice inside you that wants to quit
You have to forget your last marathon before you try another. Your mind can't know what's coming.
Do a little more each day than you think you possibly can.
In golf, as in life, you get out of it what you put into it.
Good things come slow, especially in distance running.
It hurts up to a point and then it doesn't get any worse.
The will to win means nothing without the will to prepare.
To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift.
The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win.
Running is the greatest metaphor for life, because you get out of it what you put into it.
Cross Country: No half times, no time outs, no substitutions. It must be the only true sport.
It's very hard in the beginning to understand that the whole idea is not to beat the other runners. Eventually you learn that the competition is against the little voice inside you that wants you to quit.
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.
If you can't win, make the one ahead of you break the record.
Some people create with words or with music or with a brush and paints. I like to make something beautiful when I run
The only reason I would take up jogging is so that I could hear heavy breathing again.
American naturalist John Burroughs put it, “A man can fail many times, but he isn’t a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.
A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.
Don't bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself.
To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
Some people create with words or with music or with a brush and paints. I like to make something beautiful when I run. I like to make people stop and say, 'I've never seen anyone run like that before.' It's more than just a race, it's a style. It's doing something better than anyone else. It's being creative.
The body does not want you to do this. As you run, it tells you to stop but the mind must be strong. You always go too far for your body. You must handle the pain with strategy...It is not age; it is not diet. It is the will to succeed.
Don’t be afraid to give up the good for the great.
If you fail to prepare, prepare to fail.
Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
I run to see who has the most guts.
Ask yourself: 'Can I give more?'. The answer is usually: 'Yes'.
Champions do not become champions when they win the 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.
Mental will is a muscle that needs exercise, just like the muscles of the body.
Gold medals aren't really made of gold. They're made of sweat, determination, and a hard-to-find alloy called guts.
The five S's of sports training are: stamina, speed, strength, skill, and spirit; but the greatest of these is spirit.
Tomorrow is another day, and there will be another battle!
Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.
Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
I've always felt that long, slow distance produces long, slow runners.
You cannot propel yourself forward by patting yourself on the back.
Run like hell and get the agony over with.
A race is a work of art that people can look at and be affected in as many ways they're capable of understanding.
There's no such thing as bad weather - only the wrong clothes.
There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.
There's no such thing as bad weather, only inappropriate clothing
There's no such thing as bad weather, just soft people.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
Attitude determines how well you do it.