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Good Running/Cross Country quotes

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Hack.The.Pow.
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This is for all the long distance runners on NS. I know there have got to be some of you on here


Heres my favorite:

I always loved running - it was something you could do by yourself, and under your own power. You could go in any direction, fast or slow as you wanted, fighting the wind if you felt like it, seeking out new sights just on the strength of your feet and the courage of your lungs. - Jesse Owens
Jun 8 2009 4:34PM
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FUUUCK
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"It doesn't get easier, you just go faster."





-Greg LeMond, cyclist not a runner but w/e
Jun 8 2009 4:38PM
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thebeesknees
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ya man im a runner heres a sick quote that gets me pumped up:

"Excuses are the nails in the house of failure".

-unknown

that is epic win right there!

Jun 8 2009 4:56PM
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TeamJones
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On the back of a XC shirt:
We do it long, hard, and in the bushes.
Jun 8 2009 5:05PM
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dwhite
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"To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the Gift."

-prefontaine
Jun 8 2009 5:08PM
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ski@jaypeak2
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Our sport is your sport's punishment
Jun 8 2009 5:33PM
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pomme-de-terre
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i dont run, but my ex girlfriend did, and when i first met her she was wearing a shirt that said

"cross country runners: we like it long, hard, and in the mud"
Jun 8 2009 5:54PM
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Casey
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We had shirts one year that were like, our sport is your sports punishment. or something like that
Jun 8 2009 6:06PM
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RAWLAN
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me and the 3200 have a lot in common were both really long
Jun 8 2009 6:31PM
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Twiggz
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Run Hard...Pound Harder

Thats what our shirts said this past season

Jun 8 2009 6:37PM
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thebeesknees
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this thread likes it long and hard and so does running
Jun 8 2009 7:04PM
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yourthemannowdog
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are school had one like this on the back of our sweatshirts 3 years ago.

"Running is a mental sport, but were just psycho!!"
Jun 8 2009 7:21PM
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Hack.The.Pow.
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haha our team had the same exact shirt last year
Jun 8 2009 7:32PM
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dwhite
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this thread makes me realize that i am going to need to start training soon...
Jun 8 2009 7:43PM
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Pocahontas
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this is one of my favorites
Jun 8 2009 8:03PM
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.jesus.
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"any race less than five miles is for candyasses"

my xc coach

Jun 9 2009 12:33PM
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bangarangmules
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"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. It knows it must outrun the slowest gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn't matter whether you are a lion or a gazelle. When the sun comes up, you'd better be running."
Jun 9 2009 12:50PM
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Travapple.
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running wont kill you

you'll pass out first

Jun 9 2009 1:11PM
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ShredBetty
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fast girls have better times!
Jun 9 2009 1:17PM
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N-John360
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My senior quote last year!
Jun 9 2009 2:22PM
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thebeesknees
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no.  thats what all the gay teams chant right before the starts of races.  our rosstown rivals chanted that before our race and we whooped their asses
Jun 9 2009 4:15PM
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k-rob
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"Usain Bolt can skip faster than you can sprint." - me

Jun 9 2009 4:18PM
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k-rob
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"oh, and he'll do it with his shoes untied."
Jun 9 2009 4:19PM
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Hack.The.Pow.
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another one of my favorites.
Jun 9 2009 4:20PM
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mcknzbrutal
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our stupid xc shirts said "90% of running is half mental, the rest is all heart".  It was pretty lame.

Jun 9 2009 5:21PM
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Hack.The.Pow.
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hahahah wtf

reread what that quote says lol
Jun 9 2009 5:33PM
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rep_your_hood
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do work
-karl davis
Jun 9 2009 5:37PM
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mcknzbrutal
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no, I put it right. thats exactly what the shirt says.

Jun 9 2009 7:39PM
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Kajex
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the will to win means nothing without the will to prepare.
Jun 9 2009 7:45PM
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B.Aussie
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"If it's not hurting you're not running hard enough."

"Pain is weakness leaving the body, so run through the pain."

Jun 9 2009 8:30PM
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Charley.
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my favorites are the prefontaine ones:

"the perfect pace is a suicide pace, and today is a good day to die"

"Someone may beat me, but theyre gonna have to bleed to do it"
Jun 9 2009 8:37PM
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andreweckels
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if it doesn't hurt you're not doing it right
Jun 9 2009 8:55PM
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bangarangmules
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Probably one of my favorites, part of it used to be in my sig:

"It is simply that we can all be good boys and wear our letter sweaters around and get our little degrees and find some nice girl to settle, you know, down with...Or we can blaze! Become legends in our own time, strike fear in the heart of mediocre talent everywhere! We can scald dogs, put records out of reach! Make the stands gasp as we blow into an unearthly kick from three hundred yards out! We can become God's own messengers delivering the dreaded scrolls! We can race black Satan himself till he wheezes fiery cinders down the back straightaway....They'll speak our names in hushed tones, 'those guys are animals' they'll say! We can lay it on the line, bust a gut, show them a clean pair of heels. We can sprint the turn on a spring breeze and feel the winter leave our feet! We can, by God, let our demons loose and just wail on!" -Quentin Cassidy


Jun 9 2009 8:56PM
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skivt12
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"The pain in the mind is worse then the pain in the body"

"Pain has its own noble joy, when it starts a strong consciousness of life, from a stagnant one"

"We must embrace our pain and burn it as fuel for our journey"

and my favorite one

"There is no coming to consciousness without pain"

Jun 9 2009 9:07PM
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Kajex
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dude once a runner is like... my favorite book.  did you read again to Carthage ?
Jun 19 2009 4:03AM
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BFFset.
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"Thank god this team didn't have cuts"

Jun 19 2009 4:06AM
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nkinsman10
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running is fucking gay
Jun 19 2009 4:07AM
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Goku
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my favorite, by james stewart so its mx but, "you were right there with me... til the gate dropped"
Jun 19 2009 5:36AM
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suthna
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Just read the sig.
Also, from good ol' "Boston Billy" Rodgers:
"I always say that if you treat running as a part-time sport, you'll get part-time results."
Jan 31 2010 3:33PM
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babujib
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your sport is our sports warm up.
Jan 31 2010 4:20PM
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gigi.d
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I like this one.
Jan 31 2010 4:35PM
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Tinga
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"if running were easy it would be called your mom"

"running is like banging your head against a brick wall. the best part is when you get to stop."
Jan 31 2010 4:37PM
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charmander
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theres one in my sig
Jan 31 2010 4:40PM
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anxju
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"running is for people who can't play real sports"

"running is for people without coordination"
Jan 31 2010 4:45PM
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AMD_5
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probably the smartest thing LeMond ever said
Jan 31 2010 4:48PM
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Slinger1x1
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"I like cock in my butt"
Jan 31 2010 5:14PM
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Gooseling
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haha funny arent you
why does everyone always call running gay?
Jan 31 2010 5:17PM
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TheQuailman
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kids and gym teachers/coaches that are really into cross country or track are a joke. 

More than half the people on either of these teams are just kids that got couldn't make a real sports team.  The rest are fat kids whose parents signed them up so they would lose weight or nerdy asian girls who need a sport to get into the ivy league.  Then theres like a tiny percentage of decent runners who think they run shit because they're the best ones at their sport.  Well, hello you're competing with a bunch of nerds, C- athletes, and chubby kids.

I bet the starters on any real varsity sport team (football, soccer, lacrosse, wrestling, etc.) could run circles around any skinny dweeb on the XC team. 

Jan 31 2010 5:25PM
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hurrisun
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this thread is ho mo
Jan 31 2010 5:26PM
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LMPJibbin
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"pain is weakness leaving the body"

kinda an all around quote but sick nonetheless
Jan 31 2010 5:34PM
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ISkiSwitch
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wow, really? why bother posting if you're going to be an asshole about it.

I don't know where you go to school, but my in old highschool, none of that is true, and in my university, none of that is true.
Jan 31 2010 5:37PM
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