Track Run Quotes

#1. To be successful, you can't just run on the fast track; run on your track.

John C. Maxwell

#2. Photo of boy with white dirt on his faceYou may be on the right track, but if you just sit there you'll get run over.

Paul H. Dunn

#3. You're not the only one accused of hit and run. Tire tracks all across my back, well I can see you've had your fun.

Jimi Hendrix

#4. I don't like the pitch count! How are you gonna develop your arm? If you're a track man you say, "Hey, you can't run too much." Or if you're a boxer you say, "Hey, you can only box three rounds." It's not right!

Tommy Lasorda

#5. Impending death makes one run faster. I think that's probably why they fire a gun before track meets.

Gene Doucette

#6. I don't go to the gym. I've always been very athletic and kept very active. I used to run track. I literally have no desire to get a gym membership.

Dawnn Lewis

#7. Sometimes, when I walk out onto the track I think, 'What am I doing here? Why do I put myself through this?' But that's when you really get into your focus ... you focus on the race you are going to run.

Kelly Holmes

#8. Every student of science, even if he cannot start his journey where his predecessors left off, can at least travel their beaten track more quickly than they could while they were clearing the way: and so before his race is run, he comes to virgin forest and becomes himself a pioneer.

Theodore William Richards

#9. I do a lot of running, and I do it every day. I run on a track, I run hills and I work the stair-stepper extremely hard. I do some type of cardio every day. In addition, I have a passion for golf, and that helps me stay fit, too.

Jerry Rice

#10. Your spikes, which were really quite long then, would catch the material of the track and your shoe would get heavier. I was simply filing them down and rubbing some graphite on the spikes. I thought I would run more effectively.

Roger Bannister

#11. If I'm going to get in these races and run against the best guys, I'm going to be there with them. And if I die, then I die, but I'm not going to walk away from the track saying, 'I didn't give everything.' Ever again.

David Krummenacker

#12. When the machine had been fastened with a wire to the track, so that it could not start until released by the operator, and the motor had been run to make sure that it was in condition, we tossed a coin to decide who should have the first trial. Wilbur won.

Orville Wright

#13. Twice a week I'll run fast quality workouts either on the track or road.

Jonathan Brown

#14. Imagination must constantly run on a new track or it becomes lifeless. A living imagination is essential to prayer.

Calvin Miller

#15. I find motivation within myself. I run track not from a competitive Nature, but because I'm a very goal-oriented person.

Gail Devers

#16. San Anita is a beautiful track. It's not too far from my house in L.A., and it's a beautiful place to go and watch the horses run.

Kevin Connolly

#17. You have to live a little." Grandma fitted the track bar into the cog on the track. "Go out with a bad boy. Run headfirst into a fight. Get roaring drunk. Something!

Ilona Andrews

#18. Over my desk hangs a poster from The Railway Children that my husband had framed for me. It is so lovely to see the children smiling as they run down the railway track.

Dinah Sheridan

#19. I have a wife and two boys. One is 18 and the other is 14. The 18-year old is getting ready for college next year and he made a decision to run track. He runs a lot like Michael Johnson.

Earl Campbell

#20. Running is so natural to me. When I was running track, people used to ask me, 'When are you gonna start running hard?' The wind hits me in the face, and I feel so smooth ... Man, I love to run!

Eric Dickerson

#21. 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

#22. Sometimes in life, you have to make things happen. That you can change your life if you're willing to let go of the old and actively look for the new. That even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.

Jane Green

#23. Run from me, Grier Hadley, and I'll follow. I'll track you down and find you.

Sophie Jordan

#24. I've been in the studio when you go through a track and you run down a track and you know even before the singer starts singing, you know the track is swinging ... you know you have a multimillion-seller hit - and what you're working on suddenly has magic.

Ahmet Ertegun

#25. We didn't keep track of how many miles we ran back then. We just ran. If you LOVE to run with the kind of passion I have for running, you will understand this. Running was my mode of transportation.

Gerry Lindgren

#26. No matter how far you run. Or where you hide. To the edge of the earth. Till the end of time. Seasons will change. Centuries will pass. But this truth will always remain: I will track you. Hunt you. Find you. You cannot escape me. It'll be your last ... ? Never. You are mine. You. Are. Mine.

Amber Lynn Natusch

#27. The course of our lives is not determined by great, awesome decisions. Our direction is set by the little day-to-day choices which chart the track on which we run.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#28. Between reaction and revolution there is nothing to choose. Neither leave the track, they just allow different people to drive while the same people are run over.

Heather Marsh

#29. Why do some bald guys grow ponytails? It it the same reason people too old to run always wear track shoes and sweat pants?

Dana Gould

#30. 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

#31. I don't train. I just run my 3-15 miles a day.

Jack Foster

#32. Even when you are on the right track you will get run over if you just sit there." "To

Osho

#33. TRAINING FOR ANY ASPECT MEANS TO KEEP IT IN RIGHT TRACK AS PER MODERN GLOBAL RUN.NEITHER WEAKNESS NOR SOUNDNESS COUNTS NOTHING.

Various

#34. I don't ... like rhythm, assonance, all that stuff. You just go on your nerve. If someone's chasing you down the street with a knife you just run, you don't turn around and shout, 'Give it up! I was a track star for Mineola Prep.'

Frank O'Hara

#35. My father taught me you have to believe in yourself and run on your own track.

Jennifer Grey

#36. The whole experience has really stayed with me. Dunsfold pops into my head at the strangest times, and I run the track through in my head. 'I can go faster there and there ... '

Cameron Diaz

#37. The marathon is all about energy management. I had planned to run it like a track race with strategic surges to blow up my competitors by putting them into oxygen debt, so that is the way I prepared.

Frank Shorter

#38. Not all races are run on a track. And not all finish lines are marked by ticker tape.

Toni Sorenson

#39. I can't run forever. I decided to go back to school for my degree, because I know now there's more to life than track.

Evelyn Ashford

#40. What I like most about track is the feeling I get after a good run.

Steve Prefontaine

#41. If I sleep in and don't run, I'll feel a little bit off because I didn't do what I was supposed to do. But I'm not going to beat myself up because of it. I'll just get right back on track.

Valerie Bertinelli

#42. On our track to success, we have to fight the tendency to look at others and see how far they've come. The only thing that counts is how we use the potential we possess and that we run our race to the best of our abilities.

Denis Waitley

#43. I want to run for eternal glory and track is great, but it's not what life is all about.

Allyson Felix

#44. I really feel it when I can't get to the gym for a few weeks. I like to run on a treadmill in the gym so I can keep track of what I'm doing.

Donna Air

#45. I can play basketball, run track, and play volleyball, so yeah, I've always been an athlete at heart.

Vivica A. Fox

#46. It's important to run not on the fast track, but on your track. Pretend that you have only six months to live, and make three lists: the things you have to do, want to do, and neither have to do nor want to do. Then, for the rest of your life, forget everything on the third list.

Mike Davies

#47. I lay my head on the railroad track, waitin' on the Double E. But the train don't run by here no more, poor, poor, pitiful me.

Warren Zevon

#48. If you'd feel more comfortable, I'd be happy to run with her for the next week or so in the mornings. I usually run the track at school, but it's not a big deal. You know, just to make sure this doesn't happen again.

Colleen Hoover

#49. Time was funny like that. If you didn't keep track of it, make the most of every moment, it could run away from you.

Donna Augustine

#50. Lucas went even paler. "Then you're on the track to suicide," he whispered. "Take my advice, Valentine. Run. Run as fast as you can, for as long as you can. Steal whatever bit of life you can. You're already dead.

Lilith Saintcrow

#51. I've been running since high school. My boyfriend was on the track team, and I'd run with him.

Jane McGonigal

#52. But talent - if you don't encourage it, if you don't train it, it dies. It might run wild for a little while, but it will never mean anything. Like a wild horse. If you don't tame it and teach it to run on track, to pace itself and bear a rider, it doesn't matter how fast it is. It's useless.

Elizabeth Hand

#53. As long as I can run fast, track will always be an option. But right now I'm focused on football because the NFL is knocking on my door and I'm not going to slam it in its face.

Robert Griffin III

#54. 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

#55. Even if you are on the right track, but just sit there, you will still get run over.

Will Rogers