“You can run 5K races until your dresser drawers overflow with T-shirts, but it is not quite the same as going to the starting line of a marathon.”
"Different people have different reasons for racing, but one is simply the incentive to get out and run, increase mileage, and feel good."
- Hal Higdon
Motivation
"Different people have different reasons for racing, but one is simply the incentive to get out and run, increase mileage and feel good."
- Hal Higdon
Motivation
"Motivation remains key to the marathon: the motivation to begin; the motivation to continue; the motivation never to quit."
- Hal Higdon
Motivation
"You didn't beat me. You merely finished in front of me."
- Hal Higdon
Resilience
"We all have bad days and bad workouts, when running gets ugly, when split times seem slow, when you wonder why you started. It will pass."
- Hal Higdon
Resilience
"What a wonderful time to be young! You have knowledge of many more things than we needed to have. It is my conviction that your generation is better and stronger than was ours — better in many ways! I have faith that you young men and young women can meet the world on its own terms and conquer it!"
- President Boyd K. Packer
Ambition
"Stay away from those people who try to disparage your ambitions. Small minds will always do that, but great minds will give you a feeling that you can become great too."
- Mark Twain
Ambition
"Don’t bunt. Aim out of the ballpark. Aim for the company of immortals."
- David Ogilvy
Ambition
"No one changes the world who isn’t obsessed."
- Billie Jean King
Ambition
"Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen."
- Michael Jordan
Ambition