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“By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.”

“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.”

“Training is doing your homework. It's not exciting. More often than not it's tedious. There is certainly no glory in it. But you stick with it, over time, and incrementally through no specific session, your body changes. Your mind becomes calloused to effort. You stop thinking of running as difficult or interesting or magical. It just becomes what you do. It becomes a habit.”

“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.”

“Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever.”

“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”

“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.”

“The battles that count aren't the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself - the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us - that's where it's at.”

“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.”

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

“Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit. We are all the same in this notion: The potential for greatness lives within each of us.”

“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.”

“When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this - you haven't.”