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TRACK AND FIELD QUOTES
Running Quotes
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"Just keep the mileage up. The first 2 weeks you'll feel like a zombie and won't want to do anything, but then by the 3rd week your legs will get sooooo tired that they won't feel tired anymore! Pretty freaky but it's what happens!" -Steve Magness
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“…You see, the actual thing itself is so competitive and serious, I don’t think anybody really has a good time right while they are competing. Oh, they like it all right, they like going to the meets, and they like being on a team and the general hullaballoo of being a jock. But when you get right down to it, right while you’re doing the thing itself, it ain’t much fun. I can’t remember a mile in my life that was even mildly amusing” -Once A Runner
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Talent is a curse. You discover you have a talent for something, and suddenly, you are burdened with that awful obligation, "potential." Unfulfilled potential seems to be the highest crime known to humankind, easily outranking murder, assault and petty theft in the annoying persistence of its punishment.
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"I don't train to absorb the pain, I train to break the pain." --Henry Rono
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“When you put yourself on the line in a race and expose yourself to the unknown, you learn things about yourself that are very exciting.” -Doris Brown Heritage
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“For me, running is a lifestyle and an art. I’m far more interested in the magic of it than the mechanics.” -Lorraine Moller
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"You're running on guts. On fumes. Your muscles twitch. You throw up. You're delirious. But you keep running because there's no way out of this hell you're in, because there's no way you're not crossing the finish line. It's a misery that non-runners don't understand." -Martine Costello
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"The pride you gain is worth the pain." -Dennis Ogilvie
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"Cross-Country, finally, a good use of golf courses!"
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"If Cross Country were easy, it would be called football
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