Cross Country And Track Quotes

#1. What people take for granted is usually more important than their pronouncements or manifestoes.

Henry F. May

#2. The most valuable asset a nation has is the creativity of its children.

Alan Plater

#3. I think sports and bodybuilding were the only things that saved me from getting beat up. People are not pleased, for whatever reason, when you can answer all the questions in class. If not for the respect I got from track, cross-country, wrestling and bodybuilding, it would have been a disaster.

Aaron Patzer

#4. I think people like it when I tell them, 'I'm lucky to be here, because they are, too. Ain't nothing to do with age. There ain't nothing promised to you. Everybody's going to die.

Bobby Womack

#5. I love running cross-country ... You come up a hill and see two deer going, 'What the hell is he doing?' On a track I feel like a hamster.

Robin Williams

#6. Love is in your heart.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#7. It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.

G.I. Gurdjieff

#8. The world will not end until you stop fighting for it..

Jinnul Jr.

#9. My introduction to track racing was through the background of cross country running, which is not a sport perhaps as popular in America as it is in England.

Roger Bannister

#10. It's odd how those who dismiss the peace movement as Utopian proffer the most absurdly dreamy reasons for war.

Arundhati Roy

#11. For every setback, do not get discouraged. Rejoice because you learned more than you expected.

Debasish Mridha

#12. I am overwhelmed with gratitude, and my heart is full. 'American Sniper' has broken records, which follows such an honest path of Chris's life.

Taya Kyle

#13. Cross Country: No half times, no time outs, no substitutions. It must be the only true sport.

Chuck Norris

#14. Elizabeth Taylor is not beautiful, she is pretty - I was beautiful.

Ava Gardner

#15. To have a spirit of excellence gives you the courage to accept large and small tasks and also strive to learn from our mistakes.

Euginia Herlihy

#16. Guilt wears track shoes. Sprint, marathon, or cross-country, it doesn't matter. It runs tireless to catch you, and it carries a sledgehammer.

Jamie Mason

#17. I'd prefer her story than history.

Toba Beta

#18. When I started running cross-country and track in high school, literally every race was a failure.

Chad Hurley

#19. It was as if everything else in the world had fallen away for Jace but himself and Clary, and he was looking at her with an unconcealed yearning and desire that made Simon feel awkward, as if he had somehow walked in on a private moment.

Cassandra Clare