"To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift"
- Steve Prefontaine
"Bid me run, and I will strive with things impossible"
- Shakespeare, Julius Ceasar
"Most people run a race to see who is fastest. I run a race to see who has the most guts."
- Steve Prefontaine
"When the guy says go, you start to suffer -- or you might as well not be out there. It's a small piece of your life, make it hurt."
-Aaron Cox,Winner of US Mountain Biking Championship
"Run with your heart instead of your mind. When you think with your mind, you think of the things you can and can't do. But when you run with your heart you forget about what you can't do, and you just go out and do it."
-Gerry Lindgren
(One of the greatest American runners of all time and consistently logged over 300 miles a week)