I Feel Good, NaNaNaNaNaNaNa....

So, to motivate myself, I put together some GREAT quotes about life and running.  I just know I'm going to need to look back at these over the next 3 months of training!  Feel free to contribute your own!

“You cannot propel yourself forward by patting yourself on the back.”

“Success isn't how far you got, but the distance you traveled from where you started.”

"A race is a work of art that people can look at and be affected in as many ways they’re capable of understanding." (this one brought tears to my eyes...not sure why)

"Human beings are made up of flesh and blood, and a miracle fiber called courage" -George Patton
   

Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up.
It knows it must outrun the fastest lion or it will be killed.
Every morning in Africa, a lion wakes up.
It knows that it must run faster than the slowest gazelle, or it will starve.
It doesn't matter whether you're a lion or a gazelle
when the sun comes up you'd better be running.

(But, unless you're a runner, you won't understand.) - Anon


Champions do not become champions when they win the event, but in the hours, weeks, months and years they spend preparing for it. The victorious performance itself is merely the demonstration of their championship character. - T. Alan Armstrong

The greatest pleasure in life, is doing the things people say we cannot do.
-- Walter Bagehot

Run like hell and get the agony over with.
--Clarence DeMar

You have a choice. You can throw in the towel, or you can use it to wipe the sweat off of your face. - Gatorade

Stadiums are for spectators.  We runners have nature and that is much better.
--Juha Vaatainen

Running is real and relatively simple…but it ain't easy.  (SOOOOOOO TRUE!)
--Mark Will-Weber     


"Running is a mental sport...and we're all insane!"

"No one ever drowned in sweat."

"Some people don't have the guts for distance racing. The polite term for them is sprinters."

"We can't all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by."   - Will Rogers

"In running, it doesn't matter whether you come in first, in the middle of the pack, or last. You can say 'I have finished.' There is a lot of satisfaction in that."

And I will end on that note =0