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“Just put one foot in front of the other.”

“But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep.”

“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.”

“I think it's relatively easy to play defense against a team that can only do one thing. Unfortunately, that's not what we're talking about here with Seattle. They have a great running back - they have a great group of running backs - but Lynch obviously is really kind of in a class by himself. The quarterback's a problem, the receivers are a problem, they have a good offensive line.”

“In golf, as in life, you get out of it what you put into it.”

“Go in any direction..seeking out new sights just on the strength of your feet and the courage of your lungs.”

“A lot of people don't realize that not everybody gets high.”

“The real competition is against the little voice inside you that wants to quit”

“Life is often compared to a marathon, but I think it is more like being a sprinter; long stretches of hard work punctuated by brief moments in which we are given the opportunity to perform at our best.”

“To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift.”

“You have to wonder at times what you're doing out there. Over the years, I've given myself a thousand reasons to keep running, but it always comes back to where it started. It comes down to self-satisfaction and a sense of achievement.”

“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.”

“I run to see who has the most guts.”

“My whole feeling in terms of racing is that you have to be very bold. You sometimes have to be aggressive and gamble.”

“There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.”

“There's no such thing as bad weather, just soft people.”

“The miracle isn't that I finished. The miracle is that I had the courage to start.”

“I always loved running... it was something you could do by yourself, and under your own power. You could go in any direction, fast or slow as you wanted, fighting the wind if you felt like it, seeking out new sights just on the strength of your feet and the courage of your lungs.”

“Running is the greatest metaphor for life, because you get out of it what you put into it.”

“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.”

“When you win, say nothing. When you lose, say less.”

“Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up, it knows it must outrun the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning in Africa, a lion wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the slowest gazelle, or it will starve. It doesn't matter whether you're the lion or a gazelle-when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.”

“If you run, you are a runner. It doesn't matter how fast or how far. It doesn't matter if today is your first day or if you've been running for twenty years. There is no test to pass, no license to earn, no membership card to get. You just run.”

“A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.”

“Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.”

“Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible.”

“It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.”

“There's no such thing as bad weather - only the wrong clothes.”

“There are as many reasons for running as there are days in the year, years in my life. But mostly I run because I am an animal and a child, an artist and a saint. So, too, are you. Find your own play, your own self-renewing compulsion, and you will become the person you are meant to be.”

“The five S's of sports training are: stamina, speed, strength, skill, and spirit; but the greatest of these is spirit.”

“The will to win means nothing without the will to prepare.”