Cross Country Running☻

Quotes, Sayings, Pictures, and other things Running Related. (Some non-related too)

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Running has taught me, perhaps more than anything else, that there's no reason to fear starting lines... or other new beginnings. 

 — Amby Burfoot

(photo: Huffington Post)

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Our running shoes have magic in them- the power to transform a bad day into a good day; frustration into speed; self-doubt into confidence; chocolate cake into muscle.

- Mina Samuels (Fight Like a Girl)

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Running is life with the volume up.

– @running_junkie

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A day without strides is like a day without sunshine.

-Skuj

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Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.

—William Faulkner

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I ran to be free; I ran to avoid pain; I ran to feel pain; I ran out of love and hate and anger and joy.

—Dagny Scott

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Everyone who has run knows that its most important value is in removing tension and allowing a release from whatever other cares the day may bring.

—Jimmy Carter

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Stadiums are for spectators.  We runners have nature and that is much better.

-Juha Vaatainen

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Running is the greatest metaphor for life, because you get out of it what you put into it.

- Oprah Winfrey

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Run when you can, walk if you have to, crawl if you must; just never give up.

-Dean Karnazes

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When it’s pouring rain and you’re bowling along through the wet, there’s satisfaction in knowing you’re out there and the others aren’t. —Peter Snell

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Hills. We love them. We hate them. They make us strong. They make us weak. Today I chose to embrace hills.

-Hal Higdon

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Run often. Run long. But never outrun your joy of running.

-Julie Isphording

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Out on the roads there is fitness and self-discovery and the persons we were destined to be.

-Dr. George Sheehan

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Others make excuses to quit. You make excuses to keep going.

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I'm a distance runner. I've been trained to keep going, even when it's hard, when it hurts, when it sucks, when I don't want to. I look past it. Relentless forward progress to the finish. Call it what you want; stubbornness, endurance, determination, guts. Deep down, I don't know how to give up. And it's always worth it in the end.

- Unknown Author

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Remember, the feeling you get from a good run is far better than the feeling you get from sitting around wishing you were running.

-Sarah Condor