Track Field Quotes

#1. I went to Howard University and majored in Film Production and minored in Acting. I turned down an opportunity to go pro in Track & Field to do this - I took a chance with this.

Lance Gross

#2. When you are in the field of creativity, you lose track of time. Only the flow exists.

Deepak Chopra

#3. It was not until the end of my freshman year in high school that I thought I could really have a future in track and field. I definitely did not think I could make it to the Olympics back then, though; I was just focused on making it to the state finals!

Allyson Felix

#4. You'd like more people to recognise what you do is special. But I take the attitude that the best thing I can do for my sport is to be the best at it. The best way people will come to recognise that track and field is a great sport is to see athletes excelling at it.

Maurice Greene

#5. I wouldn't mind being a track and field coach.

Ron Rash

#6. If my dreams can happen to me, your dreams can happen to you. Champions are not made on the track or field; champions are made by the things you accomplish and the way you use your abilities in everyday life situations.

Bob Beamon

#7. In high school, I did a little track and field and ran on my own. In college, I would run every now and again, but I didn't have enough time to be devoted to it.

Natalie Morales

#8. I went to Moorehouse College. There was no track and field there.

Edwin Moses

#9. Surprisingly, maybe the place I get recognised the least is the United States. America is not so big on track and field. Some recognise me there but lots don't.

Usain Bolt

#10. I'm going to go and leave my blood all over the track.

Nick Rogers

#11. The playing field is more sacred than the stock exchange, more blessed than Capital Hill or the vaults of Fort Knox. The diamond and the gridiron
and, to a lesser degree, the court, the rink, the track, and the ring
embody the American dream of Eden.

Lewis H. Lapham

#12. It's very warm there, so we were outdoors all the time. The local people had programs for us year-round, where as kids we had the opportunity to play football, basketball, baseball, track and field - we just went from one sport to the next, year-round.

Rafer Johnson

#13. I was playing cricket first and my cricket coach was the one that introduced me to track and field.

Usain Bolt

#14. In America, we have three major sports - baseball, football and basketball. They get the most coverage. Then there's things like golf which mop up most of what is left. But track and field? We are way at the bottom of the totem pole.

Maurice Greene

#15. When you put yourself on the line in a race and expose yourself to the unknown, you learn things about yourself that are very exciting.

Doris Brown Heritage

#16. I grew up on basketball, volleyball, that sort of thing. For me, track and field was a whole 'nother beast.

Stephan James

#17. It hurts up to a point and then it doesn't get any worse.

Ann Trason

#18. I've had some experience in track and field in school, but I did have to train to be able to play Jesse Owens - to be a runner, to be an Olympian.

Stephan James

#19. At the end of the day, if you're a professional athlete in track and field you are the CEO of your company.

Carl Lewis

#20. When a man thinks happily, he finds no foot-track in the field he traverses. All spontaneous thought is irrespective of all else.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#21. All our lives are enriched by the leadership and excellence and confidence of female athletes, whether the Mia Hamms and Maya Moores we know or the field hockey, lacrosse and track and field athletes we do not necessarily know.

George Vecsey

#22. If you run 100 miles a week, you can eat anything you want - Why? Because (a) you'll burn all the calories you consume, (b) you deserve it, and (c) you'll be injured soon and back on a restricted diet anyway.

Don Kardong

#23. John McDonnell is the Bear Bryant of track and field.

Frank Broyles

#24. I was working in corporate Canada and I was doing all right. But I was burnt out ... Long hours, a lot of clients. I just wanted to get away. Track and field was sort of like the elimination thing. I just wanted to go and do something. Exercise my brain and my body and kind of gravitate to that.

Donovan Bailey

#25. Train hard while others don't, so you can win while your opponents wont.

Andre Bramble

#26. I love sports. I've played basketball, baseball, soccer, tennis, track and field growing up.

Michael B. Jordan

#27. Tomorrow is another day, and there will be another battle!

Sebastian Coe

#28. Track and field was very big when I was growing up.

Usain Bolt

#29. The referee will now keep track of the time on the field and the shootouts have finally been banned.

Cobi Jones

#30. I grew up an athlete. Track and field and dance. In track, I actually went to the Junior Olympics. I've always been very athletic.

Kimberly Elise

#31. Track and field is the best way to reach out for kids. It doesn't matter how fast you are. You always want to beat someone.

Carl Lewis

#32. Track and field has always interested me.

Bruce Dern

#33. Many track and field people know that if I stay relaxed and run my race like I'm supposed to, I will be the winner at the Olympic Games.

Asafa Powell

#34. I played everything. I played lacrosse, baseball, hockey, soccer, track and field. I was a big believer that you played hockey in the winter and when the season was over you hung up your skates and you played something else.

Wayne Gretzky

#35. Scientists use satellites to track weather, map ice sheet melting, detect diseases, show ecosystem change ... the list goes on and on. I think nearly every scientific field benefits or could benefit from satellite imagery analysis.

Sarah Parcak

#36. My guess was that when you descended to a certain depth of depravity, the Fogs could smell you as a hound, catching a murderer's spoor, could track the criminal through forest, field, and moor.

Dean Koontz

#37. I got interested in decathlon because a coach that I had was a big fan of Bruce Jenner, and he just saw the ability in me - but when it came down to it, I knew my best chance at a college scholarship would be in track and field.

Dan O'Brien

#38. It is in experiencing and accepting the pain of defeat, that we may truly acknowledge the joy of victory.

Andre Bramble

#39. Track and field, because it was something I could do by myself, one-on-one, me against everybody else.

Jim Thorpe

#40. The only job worse is a javelin catcher at a track - and - field meet.

Gump Worsley

#41. The farm is one field to the east of the railroad track that used to connect New Orleans with Chicago. The track runs beside Highway 45, an old U.S. route that unites Chicago with Mobile, Alabama.

Bobbie Ann Mason

#42. I actually got dared to audition for the dance team. All my track-and-field buddies dared me to audition, and I was one of the few guys who did it.

Harry Shum Jr.

#43. I started track and field when I was 12 and didn't get to an Olympic Games until I was nearly 23. By any stretch of the imagination that's a very long apprenticeship.

Sebastian Coe

#44. When I tell people I'm going to the Olympics, they're like: 'What do you do, track and field? Pole vault? Are you a volleyball player?' No one ever guesses tae kwon do.

Diana Lopez

#45. Decathletes have to train for every event: sprints one day, field events the next. You pump up to make yourself strong enough to throw? Try pole vaulting at 250 pounds. There are 32 guys in most decathlons, and they're in 32 little track meets.

Caitlyn Jenner

#46. While shooting 'Selma,' I would train on my off time with the assistant men's track and field coach at Georgia Tech.

Stephan James

#47. The more success I have with track and field the bigger my brand is. So I would say I'm more of a brand now, trying to build for the future.

Usain Bolt

#48. I began with track and field because this is what I know.

Sergei Bubka

#49. When I dj at big venues I try to play tracks that I would want to hear if I were e'd up in a field with 50,000 other people.

Moby

#50. The burn is my girlfriend, failure is my ex. I'm married to the track and engaged to success.

Andre Bramble

#51. We played a festival in Ireland once, and in the middle of 'New Slang,' the Scissor Sisters kicked in across the field on this mega stage. It was a little distracting. It was hard to keep track of what I was supposed to sing.

James Mercer

#52. Competing in both track and field and basketball for the Bruins I have a lot of great memories to choose from. But my all-time favorite moment in collegiate sports has to be in 1982 when we won UCLA's first NCAA title in track.

Jackie Joyner-Kersee

#53. I'd been kind of a hiccup in my parents' lives. They lost track of me and I didn't know what I was going to do with myself. And then fate reached in and took me in its hands. I was discovered right out of high school and started getting work.

Sally Field

#54. I love track and field, but I also know the day will come when I will have to do something else.

Jackie Joyner-Kersee

#55. Here all of nature was captured, labeled, arranged according to a logic that seemed as timeless as if ordered by God, perhaps a God who had mislaid the original paperwork on the Creation and had requested the Field Museum staff to help him out and keep track of it all.

Audrey Niffenegger

#56. Nobody will outwork, out-train or out-will me !

Andre Bramble

#57. I would be inclined to say 'if you are not willing to cooperate and follow the rules of your international federation you are not the right track and field association to be part of the USOC',

Dick Pound

#58. I love watching gymnastics, swimming, and track and field.

Mia Hamm

#59. I love watching track and field - the 4x100 relay, the 100-(meter) dash, the 200-(meter) dash. To see what they're able to do, I love watching that.

LeBron James