Quotes About Cross Country Running

#1. 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

#2. Cross-country running was so beautiful with all the trails and the lake regions ... very physical and also a bit spiritual, where you could come over the mountain and all of a sudden you'd see a Buddhist landscape fog.

Robin Williams

#3. This explains the running, at least, but how on earth did it happen? Am I some kind of freak? No wonder my parents didn't want me on a cross-country team; I'd end up on Ripley's Believe It or Not.

Mark Frost

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

Chad Hurley

#5. It is a destructive addition to add anything to Christ

Richard Sibbes

#6. The freedom of Cross Country is so primitive. It's woman vs. nature.

Lynn Jennings

#7. I've learned that I'm most powerful when I'm doing my art.

Andre Benjamin

#8. I found I could also be good in cross country. I don't think my running style has anything to do with it. If you have speed and your body feels good, you can do any distance.

Catherine Ndereba

#9. I couldn't direct because I'm too impatient and I couldn't put together a package because I don't understand money. I'd rather just do what I'm doing.

Rod Serling

#10. Trample the weak. Hurdle the dead.

Attila The Hun

#11. Sure, at heart I wanted to be a Dickens, but I hated being great on command.

Rachel Heffington

#12. There was no girls' cross-country team at our high school, since cross-country courses were two or three miles long, and, at that distance, a girl's uterus could fall out.

Gretchen Reynolds

#13. If a fourteen year-old can deliver your message, it's not because he's gifted. It's because intellectually, you're a child.

Bill Maher

#14. Running taught me valuable lessons. In cross-country competition, training counted more than intrinsic ability, and I could compensate for a lack of natural aptitude with diligence and discipline. I applied this in everything I did.

Nelson Mandela

#15. The start of a World Cross Country event is like riding a horse in the middle of a buffalo stampede. It's a thrill if you keep up, but one slip and you're nothing but hoof prints.

Ed Eyestone

#16. You may be Catholic or Protestant or Buddhist or Baptist or Muslim or Mormon or Jewish or Jain, or you have no religion at all. I'm not interested in your religious background. Because God did not create the universe for us to have religion. He came for us to have a relationship with him.

Rick Warren

#17. Be a bringer of the Light. For your light can do more than illuminate your own path, you can be the light which truly lights the world.

Neale Donald Walsch

#18. School cross country runs started because the rugby pitches were flooded. There was an alternative: extra studying. This meant there were plenty of runners on sports afternoons.

Gordon Pirie

#19. It's not a deliberate thing. It's not like I was rejecting the UK, which is what the papers said. It's just that when you spend a lot of time in your formative years around an accent, you're going to pick it up. I had been living in LA for a bit and that's what happened.

Joss Stone

#20. If you can't be disciplined, be clever.

Shinzen Young

#21. Happiness is an illusion, Natalie. It doesn't actually exist."
"Of course it does," I said. "It's what you feel when you're not sad."
"That's unconsciousness. And I'm pretty sure that I'm miserable when I am unconscious, too.

Lee Goldberg

#22. Some sessions are stars and some sessions are stones, but in the end they are all rocks and we build upon them.

Chrissie Wellington

#23. It's appalling that there have to be movements organized to give human beings the right to be human beings in the eyes of other human beings.

Glenda Jackson

#24. I think the idea of moving to a cleaner energy future and doing more energy efficiency makes smart sense.

William J. Clinton

#25. 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

#26. Without pain, there is no call for anger, much less rampaging.

Adam Levin

#27. There's handsome and then there's he-just-shouldn't-be-able-to-walk-this-earth-fine. We

Kenya Wright

#28. The footing was really atrocious. I loved it. I really like Cross Country; you're one with the mud.

Lynn Jennings