wicked quotes
Listed here are a few of my favorite running quotes. Please send me your favorites.
"I can't go on, I'll go on."
- samuel beckett
“Success
is not final. Failure is not fatal. It is the courage to continue
that counts.”
- Winston Churchill
"We are messengers fueled by the message.
When the message is of truth/beauty
we will always have the strength
to find our way home on this
our beautiful mother earth"
- Caballo Blanco
de la tierra madre
RFP - relentless forward progress - RFP
- dave covey, ultra runner
"eat, eat, eat, eat, drink, drink, drink, drink, pee, pee, pee, pee, run, run, run, run"
- simon mtuy, tanzanian ultra runner
"beyond the very extreme of fatigue and distress, we may find amounts of ease and power we never dreamed ourselves to own; sources of strength never taxed at all because we never push through the obstruction"
- William James, Philosopher
"when was the last time you did something for the first time?"
- Kobi Yamada from
"Ever Wonder"
"i'm afraid that some times you'll play lonely games too. Games you can't win 'cause you'll play against you. All alone! Whether you like it or not,
Alone will be something you'll be quite a lot"
- Dr. Seuss from "Oh the places you'll go"
...used that Dr. Seuss
quote in reference to my 9 Trails experience
last year... Lisa Welch, ultra marathon runner
"run every trail like is was your last!"
- jeff "quadzilla" reifers, ultra runner
"obstacles are what you see when you take your eyes off of the goal"
- luis escobar, dumb ass
"do or do not, there is no try"
- yoda
"Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming, "WOW! What a ride!"
- unknown
"make friends with pain and you will never be alone"
- ken clouber
"training to run 100 miles is like training to get hit by a truck"
- luis Escobar
"things are going to get a lot worse before they get worse"
- lily tomlin
"if you feel good while running the western states 100 mile endurance run, don't worry. you'll get over it"
- gene thibeault
"We had done
this thing we had set out to do, and instead of becoming
larger because of the experience, we became smaller, more humble more
aware of how little we know: about the world in general, about ourselves specifically."
- Richard Benyo in "The Death Valley 300."