Cross Country Running
Stadiums are for spectators. We runners have nature and that is much better.
Juha Väätäinen, Finland
The start of a World Cross Country event is like riding a horse in the middle of a buffalo stampede. It's a thrill if you keep up, but one slip and you're nothing but hoof prints.
Ed Eyestone
The freedom of Cross Country is so primitive. It's woman vs. nature.
Lynn Jennings
The footing was really atrocious. I loved it. I really like Cross Country; you're one with the mud.
Lynn Jennings
Get out well, but not too quickly, move through the field, be comfortable. Strategy-wise, go with your strengths. If you don't have a great finish, you must get away to win. I've always found it effective to make a move just before the crest of a hill. You get away just a little and you're gone before your opponent gets over the top. Also, around a tight bend, take off like holy hell. I've done that a number of times. You should not be flying down the home straight. Most of your efforts should have been put forth earlier.
John Treacy, Ireland's two-time world cross country champion (1978, 1979)
School cross country runs started because the rugby pitches were flooded. There was an alternative: extra studying. This meant there were plenty of runners on sports afternoons.
Gordon Pirie
When I was about 14 or 15, and running in a pretty muddy cross country race, one of my shoes stuck in the mud and came off. Boy, was I wild. To think that I had trained hard for this race and didn't do up my shoelace tightly enough! I really got aggressive with myself, and I found myself starting to pass a lot of runners. As it turned out, I improved something like twenty places in that one race. But I never did get my shoe back.
Rob de Castella
We told our guys to hold on for 30 minutes of agony for 12 months of glory.
Coach John McDonnell, after Arkansas won the 1993 Ncaa Cross Country title
Cross Country is like poker. You have to be holding five good cards all the time.
Rollie Geiger, North Carolina State Coach
I prefer running without shoes. My toes didn't get cold. Besides, if I'm in front from the start, no one can step on them.
Michelle Dekkers, the barefoot South African runner who won the 1989 Ncaa cross country title for Indiana
A running machine, that glides over mud, crud and goop.
Ed Eyestone's definition of Kenyan ace John Ngugi
The secret of cross country is to do everything we on the track and take it into the bush.
Mike Koskei, former national coach of Kenya
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