“Good things come slow – especially in distance running.”
- Bill Dellinger, University of Oregon coach

“If you ever get a second chance in life for something, you’ve got to go all the way.”
- Lance Armstrong

“Anybody can do just about anything with himself that he really wants to and makes his mind to do. We are capable of greater than we realize.”
- Norman Vincent Peale, author

“Running is a big question mark that’s there each and every day. It asks you, ‘Are you going to be a wimp or are you going to be strong today?’”
- Peter Maher, Irish-Canadian Olympian and Sub-2:12 marathoner

“He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.”
- Napoleon Bonaparte

“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.”
- Sir Roger Bannister, first man to break the four minute mile

“The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win.”
- Sir Roger Bannister

“Most men take the straight and narrow. A few take the road less traveled. I chose to cut through the woods.”
- Unknown

“Hills are speedwork in disguise.”
- Frank Shorter

“There’s no such thing as bad weather, just soft people.”
- Bill Bowerman

“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

“Running is the greatest metaphor for life, because you get out of it what you put into it.”
- Oprah Winfrey

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