Track & Field Losing Quotes

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

- 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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"Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose."

- Wilma Rudolph

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"To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift."

- Steve Prefontaine

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"They said that breaking the four-minute mile was impossible, that one would die in the attempt. Thus, when I got up from the track after collapsing at the finish line, I figured I was dead."

- Roger Bannister

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