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

“Gold medals aren't really made of gold. They're made of sweat, determination, and a hard-to-find alloy called guts.”

“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.”

“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.”

“We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort.”

“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.”

“A race is a work of art that people can look at and be affected in as many ways they're capable of understanding.”

“I run to see who has the most guts.”

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

“Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Run when you can, walk if you have to, crawl if you must; just never give up.”

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

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

“We run, not because we think it is doing us good, but because we enjoy it and cannot help ourselves...The more restricted our society and work become, the more necessary it will be to find some outlet for this craving for freedom. No one can say, 'You must not run faster than this, or jump higher than that.' The human spirit is indomitable.”

“Mental will is a muscle that needs exercise, just like the muscles of the body.”

“If you want to become the best runner you can be, start now. Don't spend the rest of your life wondering if you can do it.”

“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.”