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“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.”

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

“Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second.”

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

“Now if you are going to win any battle you have to do one thing. You have to make the mind run the body. Never let the body tell the mind what to do. The body will always give up. It is always tired morning, noon, and night. But the body is never tired if the mind is not tired. When you were younger the mind could make you dance all night, and the body was never tired... You've always got to make the mind take over and keep going.”

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

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

“I believe that the Good Lord gave us a finite number of heartbeats and I'm damned if I'm going to use up mine running up and down a street.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“There's no such thing as bad weather, only inappropriate clothing”

“Good things come slow, especially in distance running.”

“Your body will argue that there is no justifiable reason to continue. Your only recourse is to call on your spirit, which fortunately functions independently of logic.”

“It is true that speed kills. In distance running, it kills anyone who does not have it.”

“If you run 100 miles a week, you can eat anything you want - Why? Because (a) you'll burn all the calories you consume, (b) you deserve it, and (c) you'll be injured soon and back on a restricted diet anyway.”

“You have to forget your last marathon before you try another. Your mind can't know what's coming.”

“I've always felt that long, slow distance produces long, slow runners.”

“We run, not because we think it is doing us good, but because we enjoy it and cannot help ourselves”

“To win without risk is to triumph without glory.”

“I always loved running.... It was something you could do by yourself and under your own power.”

“Don't bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself.”