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Long Distance Runner Inspirational Quotes (404)

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I want my time spent running to serve as a reward.
Frank Shorter
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Age for me is just a number.
Haile Gebrselassie
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Every day I spend time on the treadmill. I am walking faster, stronger and harder than I was two months ago.
Grete Waitz
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I try to think about positive things - how great my form is, how my arms are swinging, my breathing, how loud people are cheering. My sports psychologist taught me there are a million things telling you you can't keep going, but if you find the things that say you can, you're golden.
Kara Goucher
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There is not, and never was, a greater man than Emil Zatopek.
Ron Clarke
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There's obviously some validity to it. But I think it also points out that you obviously can do it on your own because people have been doing it long before they had the stuff.
Frank Shorter
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I tape my list of goals, both large and small, above my bed so I can see them when I wake up. This holds me accountable.
Chris Solinsky
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Even at my age, I'm trying to improve. Never give up, no matter what. Even if you get last place - finish.
Louis Zamperini
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From my training I can get a good idea of what I'm capable of.
Paula Radcliffe
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Being a runner, professional or recreational, means that you are part of a community that stretches across the globe.
Lanni Marchant
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I had over-trained. I put too much pressure on myself because I wanted that gold medal too much. If I had trained 15 per cent less, I would have won. I was training like a crazy person. There was a lack of self-confidence and a lack of maturity. An athlete does not only train with his body. He trains with his mind.
Hicham El Guerrouj
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Sustained motivation is essential to achieving your potential.
Grete Waitz
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Erase from your mind that your preparation must be perfect. Hard work + dedication = a shot at your dreams. Keep believing.
Kara Goucher
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Train where your fitness is NOW, not where you want to be.
Scott Jurek
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You cannot propel yourself forward by patting yourself on the back.
Steve Prefontaine
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Humans aren't built to sit all day. Nor are we built for the kinds of repetitive, small movements that so much of today's specialized work demands. Our bodies crave big, varied movements that originate at the core of our body.
Scott Jurek
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A good athlete always mentally replays a competition over and over, even in victory, to see what might be done to improve the performance the next time.
Frank Shorter
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I was glad I did a year abroad, because it helped me as an athlete and as a person. That took me out of my comfort zone. Watching the French athletes train in the Pyrenees made me realise what I had to do to become a top athlete.
Paula Radcliffe
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There is a big difference to someone being born with vision loss, to a kid having vision loss, to a senior having macular degeneration and losing their sight.
Marla Runyan
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We, as athletes, have our suspicions about who's cheating, but I'm not convinced that the testing has yet caught up with what people are using or what they are using to disguise it.
Paula Radcliffe
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The biggest danger is trying to put too much pressure on yourself, trying to get in too good shape.
Paula Radcliffe
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I run because it always takes me where I want to go.
Dean Karnazes
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Most of all, the ultra distance leaves you alone with your thoughts to an excruciating extent. Whatever song you have in your head had better be a good one. Whatever story you are telling yourself had better be a story about going on. There is no room for negativity. The reason most people quit has nothing to do with their body.
Scott Jurek
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Fear is a great motivator.
John Treacy
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