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Athletics Competitor Inspirational Quotes (2833)

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Being born not long after the war meant that money was tight. I grew up in a rural corner of Lincolnshire and my father worked on local farms. Being one of nine kids meant we didn't have much.
Geoff Capes
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I was in the doldrums for a while after my athletics career ended in 1992. I spent six to eight hours a day training, for 18 years, and it took a long time to get over the regret that I wasn't competing in major championships any more. All I ever wanted to be was the best. But I find new projects and I keep things in perspective.
Daley Thompson
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I run, therefore I am. And given the years improved fitness adds to our lives, if I did not run, maybe I would no longer be.
Hal Higdon
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If she did experience sex-or something close to it-in high school, I'm sure it would have been less out of sexual desire or love than literary curiosity.
Haruki Murakami
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I majored in elementary education, and I have a passion for kids.
Allyson Felix
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Our hearts are not stones. A stone may disintegrate in time and lose its outward form. But hearts never disintegrate. They have no outward form, and whether good or evil, we can always communicate them to one another.
Haruki Murakami
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You need three things to win: discipline, hard work and, before everything maybe, commitment. No one will make it without those three. Sport teaches you that.
Haile Gebrselassie
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I think women have brought a lot of life back to the sport-first, because a lot of people doubted women could actually do it well. Two, part of it is that old fascination some people have in watching athletes risk injury to win.
Stacy Dragila
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You don't call the witness a liar, not while he is in the witness box.
Oscar Pistorius
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Teams are going to try to hit me because they think I can't take a hit. I think I've proven over my career that I can.
Robert Griffin III
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Every time I ran the mile I was aware of my own weakness, there was some opponent who could give me a hell of a fight, so I never went into a race with a sense of invincibility. I always had that feeling of fragility and nerves which made me run faster.
Roger Bannister
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We are just not made up to be middle distance runners.
Alberto Juantorena
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The body is not the only target of rape. Violence does not always take a visible form, and not all wounds gush blood.
Haruki Murakami
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The passage of time will usually extract the venom of most things and render them harmless
Haruki Murakami
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There is magic in misery. Just ask any runner.
Dean Karnazes
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The world in books seemed so much more alive to me than anything outside. I could see things I'd never seen before. Books and music were my best friends. I had a couple of good friends at school, but never met anyone I could really speak my heart to.
Haruki Murakami
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I tell runners... that no matter how inexperienced a runner you may be, there is nothing wrong with being intense. You don't know what you might discover.
Francie Larrieu Smith
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I like to make something beautiful when I run ... it's style. It's doing something better than anyone else. It's being creative.
Steve Prefontaine
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But if you peeled away the ornamental egos that she had built, there was only an abyss of nothingness and the intense thirst that came with it.
Haruki Murakami
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By lifting each other up we lift ourselves up
Lauren Fleshman
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You've got to stick at a thing, a particular thing, until you succeed. I feel that's the only way to succeed - by concentrating on something in particular. Once you know what you've got to do you will succeed, you will succeed.
Betty Cuthbert
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Youth offers the promise of happiness, but life offers the realities of grief.
Nicholas Sparks
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For me, as for so many runners, there really are no finish lines. Runs end running doesn't.
Dean Karnazes
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Just when you think it can't get worse, it can. And just when you think it can't get any better, it will. But as long as you remember that he loves you and you love him you'll be just fine.
Nicholas Sparks
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