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"You are like the Ben Franklin of the running community -- and you make it happen" - Rob H

"I don't care what anyone says, you brought back running on MDI " - EG

"The Crow is black, which in my opinion is the way it should be"- BB

"Cause tramps like us, baby we were born to run" -Bruce Springsteen

"Hills are just candy for runners" -gary

"if you want to win a race you have to go a little berserk" - Bill Rodgers

"Most people run a race to see who is fastest. I run a race to see who has the most guts." -Steve Prefontaine

"There's no such thing as bad weather, just soft people." -Bill Bowerman

"Run like hell and get the agony over with." -Clarence DeMar

"I train very hard, until I am sick. Sometimes I train like a foolish man who has no mind." -Hicham el-Guerrouj

"The difference between the mile and the marathon is the difference between burning your fingers with a match and being slowly roasted over hot coals" - Hal Higdon

I had as many doubts as anyone else. Standing on the starting line, we're all cowards" -Alberto Salazar

"A race without hills is like coffee without caffeine" -g.allen

"Because that's all I have time for." -Stu Mittleman, on why he runs 20 miles a day

"I don't run to be regarded as anything by anybody. I don't care what people think." -Derek Clayton

"If man had wings and bore black feathers, few would be clever enough to be crows." - Mike Brooks, Badwater Ultra veteran

"Workouts are like brushing my teeth; I don't think about them. The decision has already been made." -PattiSue Plumer

"Somewhere in the world someone is training when you are not when you race them, they will win." -Tom Fleming

"Most mistakes in a race are made in the first two minutes, perhaps in the very first minute." -Jack Daniels

"If you start to feel good during an ultra, don't worry you will get over it." -Gene Thibeault

"The only secret is that it is consistent, often monotonous, boring, hard work." -Robert de Castella

"Its the mind that tells you when to give up." -Jamaican sprint star, Marlene Ottey

"Men, today we die a little." -Emil Zatopek at the start of the 1952 Helsinki Olympic Marathon

"Mind is everything, muscles mere pieces of rubber. All that I am , I am because of my mind." -Paavo Nurmi, Nine-time Olympic Gold medalist

"You have to forget your last marathon before you try another. Your mind can't know what's coming." -Frank Shorter

"There are few distance runners who are born great. You have to work very hard very often." -Horace Ashenfelter, 1952 Olympic Steeple Champion

"You can't always get what you want But if you try sometimes well you might find You get what you need." -Mick Jagger

"There is a great advantage in training under unfavorable conditions." -Emil Zatopek

"The long run is what puts the tiger in the cat". -Bill Squires

"I will not last forever. But I am damn well going to know I have been here." -George Sheehan

"talk about walking into a slaughter house." -Phil Lebreton, on racing a few Crows

"winter running is like developing a taste for beer, at first it tastes like hell but the more you practice the better it gets." -gary

"There are three things worth living for: American luxury, Japanese women and Chinese food," -Emil Zatopek 5K,10K, Marathon gold medalist

"I look at victory as milestones on a very long highway." -Joan Benoit-Samuelson

"In sixty-five I was seventeen and running up one-o-one I don't know where I'm running now, I'm just running on." -Jackson Browne

"Anyone that says long distance running is a rational sport has never run a step." -g

"I got heat stroke a little -- but I shook it off..." - G, after the '05 B2B





































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