Athletes Track & Field Motivational Quotes

"The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100%."
Usain Bolt

"Often I visualize a quicker, like almost a ghost runner, ahead of me with a quicker stride. It's really crazy. In races, this always happens to me. I see the vision of a runner ahead of me, maybe just 15, 20 meters ahead of me, and the cadence of that runner, which is actually me in the future, is a little quicker, so if I am going (his rhythm/breathing), then my ghost runner, the vision of me, ahead of me, like opening up and just going for it, is quicker".
Gabe Jennings

"The body does what the mind believes." Michael Johnson

"The mental part is the hardest part." Jackie Joyner-Kersee

"Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind."
Paavo Nurmi

"The body achieves what the mind believes." Florence Griffith Joyner

"Your mind is what makes everything else work." Marion Jones

"The mind is the strongest muscle in your body. If you can overcome the doubt in your mind, you can achieve success."
Jesse Owens

All top international athletes wake up in the morning feeling tired and go to bed feeling very tired.
Brendan Foster

 

Ask yourself: 'Can I give more?'. The answer is usually: 'Yes'.
Paul Tergat, Kenyan professional marathoner

 

Few of us know what we are capable of doing... we have never pushed ourselves hard enough to find out.
Alfred A. Montapert

 

They think because I am small, they can do what they want to do to me. But I am not weak. If I lower my shoulder and they lower they're shoulder, they're going to go down.
Michael Johnson

 

You got to try and reach for the stars to achieve the unreachable.
Cathy Freeman

 

Racing teaches us to challenge ourselves. It teaches us to push beyond where we thought we could go. It helps us to find out what we are made of. This is what we do. This is what it's all about.
PattiSue Plumer

 

The art form is to become one with the hurdle, to make it your friend, and I embraced that process.
Renaldo Nehemiah, 3-time world record breaker in 110m hurdles

 

I am going to go and leave my blood all over the track.
Nick Rogers

 

The body does not want you to do this. As you run, it tells you to stop but the mind must be strong. You always go too far for your body. You must handle the pain with strategy... It is not age; it is not diet. It is the will to succeed.
Jacqueline Gareau

 

No one can say, 'You must not run faster than this, or jump higher than that.' The human spirit is indomitable.
Roger Bannister

 

People could see in me who I am now, an Olympic champ, the best in the world.
Cathy Freeman

 

You have to take a leap of faith to realize a dream, and this is something that a lot of people aren't willing to do.
Ron Bramlett

 

All pressure is self-inflicted. It's what you make of it or how you let it rub off on you.
Sebastian Coe

 

The important thing was that I got the win. It's good for confidence and the season.
Usain Bolt

 

You’re a dancer; don’t strain, don’t force it. Be one with the hurdle, let it happen, relax while running fast.
Renaldo Nehemiah

 

Find the good. It`s all around you. Find it, showcase it and you`ll start believing in it.
Jesse Owens

 

In order to be great, you have to learn from greatness, which is what I have tried to do.
David Oliver

 

The ultimate winners are willing to take ultimate risks.
Brooks Johnson

 

If I am still standing at the end of the race, hit me with a board and knock me down, because that means I didnt run hard enough.
Steve Jones

 

I never really worried about those hurdles. They were just standing there, and I was always zooming past them just to get back on the ground again.
Rodney Milburn

 

A lifetime of training for just ten seconds.
Jesse Owens

 

I believe you make life what you want it to be; you can reach goals you never thought you could if you keep at it.
Mike Shine

 

Run so hard you come in with bloody feet and missing toenails.
Rob De Castella

 

The key thing in the hurdles is that it’s a development event. You might not do a damn thing one year, and then things just click. You really can’t discount athletes who may not stand out immediately. It may take two or three years for an athlete to develop.
Kevin Young

 

Pressure is nothing more than the shadow of great opportunity.
Michael Johnson

 

If you’re afraid of falling, hitting your knees, afraid of the obstacle, or of any other obstacles in your life, don’t try the hurdles.
Reggie Towns

 

Every hurdler I know has hit a hurdle hard, or fell over one. . . . Don’t be afraid to fall, because you’re going to. It’s what you do afterwards that matters.
Laron Bennett

 

The first thing a hurdler learns is how to fall.
Tonie Campbell

 

We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort.
Jesse Owens

 

To describe the agony of a marathon to someone who has never run it is like trying to explain color to someone who was born blind.
Jerome Drayton

 

Those who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those doing it.
Michael Johnson’s trainer

 

The gun goes off and everything changes... the world changes... and nothing else really matters.
Patti Sue Plummer

 

There is the truth about the marathon and very few of you have written the truth. Even if I explain to you, you'll never understand it, you're outside of it.
Douglas Wakiihuri

 

Hurdlers are sprinters with a problem. They're not satisfied just to sprint. Anybody can sprint, some not as well as others of course, but anybody can sprint. Not everybody can run hurdles. There's an extra dimension involved. Hurdlers would make a good subject for a thesis in psychology - they are of apersuasion that just needs an extra dimension.
Denny Moyer

 

"If you do what you have always done, you will get what you have always got"
Mark Twain

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