"The will to win means nothing if you haven't the will to prepare." -Juma Ikangaa

"Those who say that I will lose and am finished will have to run over my body to beat me." -Said Aouita

When you're a winner you're always happy, but if you're happy as a loser you'll always be a loser. - Mark Fidrych 

Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence. - Vince Lombardi

“I was born to be a runner. I simply love to run. It's almost like the faster I go, the easier it becomes.” Mary Decker

“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.”

“Almost every part of the mile is tactically important: you can never let down, never stop thinking, and you can be beaten at almost any point. I suppose you could say it is like life.”
 - John Landy

“Ask yourself: “Can I give more?”. The answer is usually: ‘Yes’.”
 - Paul Tergat

“I believe in the runner’s high, and I believe that those who are passionate about running are the ones who experience it to the fullest degree possible. To me, the runner’s high is a sensational reaction to a great run! It’s an exhilarating feeling of satisfaction and achievement. It’s like being on top of the world, and truthfully… there’s nothing else quite like it!”
 - Sasha Azevedo