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Long Distance Runner Inspirational Quotes (404)

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What spurs a person to get more serious is highly individual, but I have found that no matter what a person's level of ability, motivation must come from within, or it will not last.
Grete Waitz
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All I want to tell young people is that you're not going to be anything in life unless you learn to commit to a goal. You have to reach deep within yourself to see if you are willing to make the sacrifices.
Louis Zamperini
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Coaches know that a parent publicly scolding his kid after a race will not help the athlete perform better.
Don Kardong
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When you are caring about your children perhaps you always have to remember at what point you can become over involved because of something you need rather than something the child needs.
Frank Shorter
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Since I achieved something, running has exploded in my country. For me sometimes it is difficult even to know who the athletes are who are competing at the highest level. There are thousands.
Haile Gebrselassie
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My father thought sport was something fun - he didn't know it was a way to make money. Then I won a Mercedes at the world championships and I gave it to him. From the moment it arrived my father said: 'Good, you can support not just yourself but me too'.
Haile Gebrselassie
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How does a kid from Coos Bay, with one leg longer than the other win races? All my life people have been telling me, 'You're too small Pre', 'You're not fast enough Pre', 'Give up your foolish dream Steve'. But they forgot something, I HAVE TO WIN.
Steve Prefontaine
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I wanted the world to know that my country Ethiopia has always won with determination and heroism.
Abebe Bikila
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At least in a race you have mile markers and know how long you have to go. Labor is like running as hard as you can without knowing where the finish line is.
Lorraine Moller
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Experience has taught me how important it is to just keep going, focusing on running fast and relaxed. Eventually it passes and the flow returns. It's part of racing.
Frank Shorter
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I am not driven by any bitterness by what happened in Athens. I learnt a lot of lessons from it and probably came through it a stronger person in the end. There have been a lot of near misses, and that's taught me to keep persevering and that there is a chance it can come right.
Paula Radcliffe
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But I also realize that winning doesn't always mean getting first place it means getting the best out of yourself.
Meb Keflezighi
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Every athlete has doubts. Elite runners in particular are insecure people. You need someone to affirm that what you are doing is right.
Lynn Jennings
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I'd made it this far and refused to give up because all my life I had always finished the race.
Louis Zamperini
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For a couple of days after chemotherapy, food tastes really bland, even the best foods. I haven't been sick, but have been a little tired. I haven't lost any weight.
Grete Waitz
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When the meal was over we all had a quiet rest in our rooms and I meditated on the race. This is the time when an athlete feels all alone in the big world. Opponents assume tremendous stature. Any runner who denies having fears, nerves or some kind of disposition is a bad athlete, or a liar.
Gordon Pirie
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It's probably the toughest distance race in the world to win. World class runners from 1500m to the marathon contest it and instead of just three runners from each country, like in the Olympics or World Championships, in the senior men's race there are nine.
Paul Tergat
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Acknowledge all of your small victories. They will eventually add up to something great.
Kara Goucher
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In my life I do a lot of things but I never forget my training.
Haile Gebrselassie
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I thought the race could be won in the last kilometers in the park. Every hill I ran in training I ran to gain an extra step in the park.
Paul Tergat
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To suddenly be a hero on a world basis was hard for me to understand. God gave me a gift. I got the chance to use it. I didn't think I deserved what people were saying. My talent is just more visible than theirs.
Grete Waitz
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I think [my kids] are runners. They definitely have the background. I try to help them as much as I can.
Meb Keflezighi
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I am about to get involved with the biggest cancer hospital in Norway. They are building a fitness center to work with patients. I will be a consultant.
Grete Waitz
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Every time I go out and race it's a goal to go out and run faster than I've done before.
Paula Radcliffe
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