![]() ![]() Without Limits is one of my favorite movies ever, and I had a poster in various bedrooms from roughly 2005 to 2011 of this great photo of Pre looking back. Every mildly serious American runner has, at some point, encountered it. His death in a May 1975 car crash is one of the great tragedies in the history of American sports, and the bravura performance that was his life created an inspirational cottage industry that’s going strong four decades later. “To know that you are one with what you are doing, to know that you are a complete athlete, begins with believing you are a runner.Today would be Steve Prefontaine’s 65th birthday. There is no tests to pass, no license to earn, no membership card to get. ![]() It doesn’t matter if today is your first day or if you’ve been running for twenty years. “If you are a runner, it doesn’t matter how far or how fast. “He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.” – Muhammad Ali “There is no such thing as bad weather, just soft people.” – Bill Bowerman “Running is the greatest metaphor for life, because you get out of it what you put into it.” – Oprah Winfrey “Never give up on something that you can’t go a day without thinking about.” – Unknown ![]() Don’t spend the rest of your life wondering if you can do it.” – Priscilla Welch “If you want to become the best runner you can be, start now. Your body will tell you what to do.” – Joan Benoit Samuelson “Whether you believe you can or believe you can’t, you’re probably right.” – Henry Ford The miracle is that I had the courage to start.” – John Bingham “A river cuts through rock, not because of its power, but because of its persistence.” – Jim Watkins Without them it’s difficult to recognize, much less appreciate, the good ones.” – Pat Teske Yet, in your belief you’ll find the strength, you’ll find the ability, to do it anyway.” – Ralph Marston And with commitment, with effort, what you can imagine you can become. “There is no limit to what you can imagine. “If I am still standing at the end of the race, hit me with a board and knock me down, because that means I didn’t run hard enough” – Steve Jones And if some kid gets really good at it, that’s cool too.” – Pat Tyson To love the morning, to love the trail, to love the pace on the track. “Number one is just to gain a passion for running. It comes down to self-satisfaction and a sense of achievement.” – Steve Prefontaine Over the years, I’ve given myself a thousand reasons to keep running, but it always comes back to where it started. “You have to wonder at times what you’re doing out there. Try to be better than yourself.” – William Faulkner “Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. But then you find your inner strength, and realize you’re capable of so much more than you thought.” – Arthur Blank You have to drive yourself to overcome the obstacles. “Henceforth I whimper no more, postpone no more, need nothing Strong and content, I travel the open road.” – Walt Whitman, Song of the Open Road “Run when you can, walk if you have to, crawl if you must just never give up.” – Dean Karnazes It doesn’t matter whether you’re the lion or an antelope – when the sun comes up, you’d better be running.” – African Proverb It knows it must run faster than the slowest antelope, or it will starve. Every morning in Africa, a lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the fastest lion, or it will be killed. “Every morning in Africa, an antelope wakes up. “We all know that if you run, you are pretty much choosing a life of success because of it.” – Deena Kastor “To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift.” – Steve Prefontaine That’s the essence of it.” – Vince Lombardi “The real glory is being knocked to your knees and then coming back. “If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.” – Dr. “I run on the road long before I dance under the lights.” – Cassius Clay (Muhammad Ali) If you have a quote that speaks to you and you think it has a place here, e-mail it to me! Some are specifically related to running, and some are important to keep you motivated in general. Need a little inspiration? Here are some of my favorite quotes that I’ve collected over the years. ![]()
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