Track & Field Hardwork Quotes

"All top international athletes wake up in the morning feeling tired and go to bed feeling very tired."

- Brendan Foster

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"A lot of people run a race to see who is fastest. I run to see who has the most guts, who can punish himself into exhausting pace, and then at the end, punish himself even more."

- Steve Prefontaine

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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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"If I am still standing at the end of the race, hit me with a board and knock me down, because that means I didn't run hard enough."

- Steve Jones

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"Life doesn't give you all the practice races you need."

- Jesse Owens

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"Somewhere in the world someone is training when you are not. When you race him, he will win."

- Tom Fleming

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"Win if you can, lose if you must but never quit."

- Cameron Trammell

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"The battles that count aren't the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself – the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us – that's where it's at"

- Jesse Owens

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"Run when you can, walk when you have to, crawl if you must; just never give up."

- Dean Karnazes

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