Inspiration

johny mellow sports Inspiration

“I have met my hero, and he is me.” George Sheehan

“Tough times don’t last but tough people do.” AC Green

“I cannot have survival as my only goal. That would be too boring. My goal is to come back my best running form. It is good for me to have that goal; it will help me.” Ludmila Engqui (Olympic champion hurdler facing cancer and chemotherapy)

“The woods are lovely dark and deep, but I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep.” Robert Frost

“When I first started running, I was so embarrassed, I’d walk when the cars passed me. I’d pretend I was looking for flowers.” First women’s Olympic marathoner champion, Joan Beniot

“It’s time for…Beat…The…Clock!” Garry Owens

“Your vision will become clear, only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.” Carl Jung

“I eat whatever the guy who beat me in the last race ate.” Alex Ratelle

“We Few, we happy few, we band of brothers. For who sheds his blood with me this day shall be my brother.” Shakespeare, Henry V

“He may be faster than us! He’ll have to prove it. Increase speed! Captain Kirk

“We are all mortal” JFK

“Do or Do Not. There is no try!” Yoda

“There’s not a woman alive who couldn’t defeat any ten men in the ultimate battleground between the sexes” Mark Twain

“We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.” Will Rodgers

“What matters is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the fight in the dog.” Dwight D. Eisenhower.

"The trouble with jogging is that the ice always falls out of my glass." Martin Mull

“ Believe in yourself, know yourself, deny yourself, and be humble." John Treacy's

"Mental fortitude is more important than physical endurance."

"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy." Martin Luther King, Jr.

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“Every morning in Africa a gazelle wakes up. It knows it must move faster than the lion or it will not survive. Every morning a lion wakes up and it knows it must move faster than the slowest gazelle or it will starve. It doesn’t matter if you are the lion or the gazelle, when the sun comes up, you better be moving.” Maurice Greene

“Have a dream, make a plan, go for it! You’ll get there. I promise” Zoe Koplowitz, Achilles Track Club member with multiple sclerosis, required 24 hours on crutches, but finished the 1993 New York City Marathon

“What makes a great endurance athlete is the ability to absorb potential embarrassment, and to suffer without complaint. If it is a suffer fest, I am good at it.” Lance Armstrong

“Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe something inside them was superior to circumstance.” Bruce Barton

“May you work like you don’t need the money. Love like you’ve never been hurt. Dance like no one is watching. Screw like its being filmed. And drink like a true Irishman.” (source unknown)

“Toga! Toga!” Bluto Blutarsky, Animal House

“Never, Never, Never quit!” Winston Churchill

“Rumblin’, Tumblin’, Stumblin” Chris Berham

“Grab life by the claws!” from Spongebob Squarepants, Mr. Crabs

“Failure to prepare, means preparing to fail.” author unknown

“One thing is always certain, uphill is always uphill.” author unknown

“You don’t sing to get to the end of the song…you don’t run to finish or to get it over with.” author unknown

“Running has given me the courage to start, the determination to keep trying, and the childlike spirit to have fun along the way. Run often and run long, but never outrun your joy of running.” Julie Isphording, 1990 Los Angeles Marathon winner

“Mind is everything: Muscles—pieces of rubber. All that I am is because of my mind.” Paavo Nurmi

"Everyone in life is looking for a certain rush. Racing is where I get mine." John Trautmann