besides the overused obvious ones (no prefontaine quotes either)
...or a website that has some?
2007-03-03 17:27:59 · 15 answers · asked by Clementine 2 in Sports ➔ Running
wow...thanks.
2007-03-03 17:33:27 · update #1
...to be more specific...inspirational quotes.
all the answers below stink!
2007-03-03 17:41:02 · update #2
Well, my favorite one is "Running is my lover" by some guy named Toshihiko Seko; my cross country team put that on the back of our shirts last fall, and since right now I'm single...it's the truth.
"There is no time to think about how much I hurt; there is only time to run."
Ben Logsdon- I just found this one online, and liked it.
Hope this helps some!
2007-03-04 05:25:11 · answer #1 · answered by Aurelia 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hum, I like this one...
"It's not the person who crosses the line first, it's the one who worked the hardest to get there."
I have no clue who said that though. I just heard it as an inspirational quote before some random cross country meet.
2007-03-04 13:59:13 · answer #2 · answered by purplegrl28 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A lot of people run a race to see who is fastest. I run to see who has the most guts, who can punish himself into exhausting pace, and then at the end, punish himself even more.
A race is a work of art that people can look at and be affected in as many ways as they're capable of understanding.
I'm going to work so that it's a pure guts race at the end, and if it is, I am the only one who can win it.
Somebody may beat me, but they are going to have to bleed to do it.
To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift.
-)Steve Prefontaine
2007-03-05 00:23:36 · answer #3 · answered by dogma06281 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Legend has it that star athlete Bo Jackson never went on a distance run in his life until he got to NFL training camp. At the end, out of breath and in pain, he said, "people who run are stupid." That's my personal favorite.
2007-03-03 17:40:37 · answer #4 · answered by single_guy 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Maybe one of these?
"Most people run a race to see who is fastest. I run a race to see who has the most guts." - Steve Prefontaine
"What matters is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog." - Dwight D. Eisenhower
"I have met my hero, and he is me." - George Sheehan
The gun goes off and everthing changes... the world changes... and nothing else really matters." - Patti Sue Plummer
2007-03-04 03:43:18 · answer #5 · answered by schmidtee 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
For crying out loud! Forrest Gump did NOT say, "I think I'm finished now". He said, "I'm pretty tired. I think I'll go home now."
He also said, "...wherever I was going, I WAS RUN-NING!"
and, "Those look like comf-tuble shoes. Momma always said you could tell alot 'bout a person by they shoes. Where they going. Where they been. I've worn lotsa shoes", and "I GOTTA FIND BUBBA!"
Hope these help!
2007-03-03 17:36:42 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
"Some people run to see who's fastest. I run to see who has the most guts"- some famous distance runner
"It's not who accelerates the most. It is about who decelerates the least." another good distance running one
2007-03-03 17:31:44 · answer #7 · answered by moonman 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I run to live, and live to run, and I do it just because I can.
It's something I only have to rely on me to do, and my personal accomplishments are my victories alone,
And no one can take that away from me.
2007-03-04 03:51:41 · answer #8 · answered by Abby 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"i run on the road long before i dance under the lights" ~muhammed ali
2007-03-06 04:20:47 · answer #9 · answered by letsgostate05 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
"There are no shortcuts to anywhere worth going"
"Hold yourself to a higher standard than victory" -Bill Bowerman
2007-03-05 10:56:37 · answer #10 · answered by a_3_orange 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋