Track & Field Short Quotes

"Failure I can live with. Not trying is what I can't handle."

- Sanya Richards-Ross

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"A lifetime of training for just ten seconds."

- Jesse Owens

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"Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there."

- Will Rogers

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"Don't think about the start of the race, think about the ending."

- Usain Bolt

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"If you're not ready to fall, you're not ready to hurdle."

- Tonie Campbell

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"If you don't suffer the pain of hard work now, you will suffer the pain of losing later."

- Unknown

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"I don't train. I just run my 3-15 miles a day."

- Jack Foster

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"I don't think being an athlete is unfeminine. I think of it as a kind of grace."

- Jackie Joyner-Kersee

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"If you don't try to win you might as well hold the olympics in somebody's backyard."

- Jesse Owens

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"If you don't have confidence you'll always find a way not to win."

- Carl Lewis

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