| "Mind is everything, muscle: pieces of rubber. I that I am I am
because of my mind." Paavo Nurmi, multiple time Olympic Gold Medalist from
Finland. |
| "He does well in big races because he doesn't stand on the starting
line and establish a pecking order. He doesn't look around and say: 'Oh,
so-and-so is here...' His great gift is his ability to focus completely on
himself and his own race, and then let the place or time take care of itself."
Vin Lananna, coach of Stanford College and the Nike Farm Team. |
| "Pain heals, chicks dig scars, glory lasts forever." |
| "Without belief, we would be left with nothing but an overwhelming
doom, every single day. I didn't fully see, until cancer, how we fight every
day against the creeping negatives of the world, how we struggle against
the slow lapping of cynicism. Dispiritedness and disappointment, these were
the real perils of life, not some sudden illness or cataclysmic millenium
doomsday. I knew now why people fear cancer: because it is a slow and inevitable
death, it is the very definition of cynicism and loss of spirit. So, I believed."
-Lance Armstrong |
| "I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment
of all that he holds dear, is the moment when he has worked his heart out
in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle-victorious." -Vince
Lombardi |
| "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift"
-Steve Prefontaine |
| "I become a happier man each time I suffer... So that's why I
ride and why I ride hard, because it makes me hurt and so it makes me happy."
-Lance Armstrong |
| "Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your
eyes off your goal." - Henry Ford |
| "Yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict,
the more glorious the triumph." - Thomas Paine |
| "In any fight, it's the guy that's willing to die that's going
to win that inch."-Any Given Sunday |
| "As long as you're running fast, life is good."--Marion Jones |
| "If i have to do a 4:10 mile i would burn my self up to reach
their ok coach... if some one want to beat me they got to burn me.I run very
hard and i am very touth to get beat by others runner." ~jaime calzada |
| "It was a new kind of agony for me. I had never run myself into
such a state. My head was exploding, my stomach ripping, and even the tips
of my fingers ached. The only thing I could think was 'If I live, I will
never run again." Tom Courtney, 1956 Olympic 800m Champion |
| "I try to dumb down out there. They tell you to stay within yourself,
so that's what I do. Mentally, I'm not gonna out-think myself to often."
~Krukker |
| "If we do not succeed, then we run the risk of failure." -- Vice
President Dan Quayle |