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Quotes on Cross Country/Running

Here's some stuff I found usefull during cross country/track season.  I still use some of it when I run (Journey never goes out of style), but I don't run nearly as much as I used to. Things just aren't the same without Terry Anderson. 

Wherever we run, we'll never get far from what we leave behind. We can run, run, run, but we can't hide. - Grateful Dead

"Running to get away.... you're wearing out your shoes."- Unknown

"If you want to win a race, you have to go a little berserk."- Bill Rogers

"My feet and I have this understanding. I place one in front of the other, and they transport me. Its called running. It throws open the window to my mind and lets the clutter rush out, like so much stale air. I dont know what my mind would do without my feet." J. lloyd

"No man can be brave who thinks pain the greatest evil; nor temperate, who considers pleasure the highest good"- unknown

"If you are going through hell, keep going." - Sir Winston Churchill

"The distance is nothing; it is only the first step that is difficult."--Cicero

"Running became that hour when no phone could reach me and every other problem that was out there would have to wait." Sue Milinari

"We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend" -- Robert Lewis Stevenson

"The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within."- Mahatmas Gandhi

"You were running a good race.  Who cut in on you...?"- Galations 5:7

"Don't stop believing"- Journey... my cross country theme song

I am up before the sun. My day is full of moments and I make them all count. I see that my needs are met. I am strong and reliable. I always want to feel this alive." Schiff

"Victory belongs to the most persevering." Napoléon Bonaparte