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Hallie H.
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What is your favorite running quote?

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I sometimes need a lot of inspiring to get moving, just wondering what your favorite running quote is ... Currently, mine is "it's very hard to understand in the beginning that the whole idea is not to beat the other runners. Eventually you learn that the competition is against the little voice inside you that wants to quit."

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  • Shesasuperstar Y.PRO
    Shesasuperstar Y. Sendmail

    I, too, need a lot of motivation and mine comes from browsing Google images for phrases and the words RUN RUNNING RUNNER (advanced search)...I might even annoy my friends on FB with all of them but hey, gotta be your own biggest cheerleader, right? Don't quit. :) Cheers.

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  • Aron S.
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    "...but there’s a part of me that can’t take it seriously. It’s just running. No biggy. Running is something that kids do two steps after they’ve figured out how to walk." Keith Straw, the pink tutu marathoner, ultra marathoner & 3x Badwater finisher

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  • Jeff P.
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    There's something about this one I like:

    "Every morning in Africa a gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a lion wakes up and it knows it must run faster than the slowest gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn’t matter if you’re a lion or a gazelle, when the sun comes up, you better be running."

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  • Morey B.
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    somewhere in the last few miles of a marathon, I remember the quote "you're body is stronger than you think it is". it helps. that one, along with the venerable "pain is temporary, quitting lasts forever"

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  • Paul
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    i have a small selection of my favorties posted here http://kiwi-running.blogspot.de/p/quotes.html i kind of like the one from Pre the most though.

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  • Nathan D.
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    Train to race. Do not race to train.

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  • Larry M.
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    There are so many good ones but I'm in the early stages of a Half Marathon training program and this one has kind of hit me this week;

    "Training is principally an act of faith." Franz Stampfl (Roger Bannister's coach)

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  • Ellie
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    Run hard, be strong, think big!

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  • Chunae Z.
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    I am a runner. I am strong. Nothing can stop me. NOTHING. Unless my iPod dies.

    http://rwdaily.runnersworld.com/files/2012/04/poster15.jpg

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  • John D.
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    More of a boxing quote but it makes me laugh everytime I think of it. 'I'm so fast that last night I turned off the light switch in my bedroom and was in bed before the room was dark.' - Muhammad Ali

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