does anyone have inspirational quotes to motivate me with my running training?

I have the rockey soundtrack on my ipod. believe it or not it works gives you a real boost. I know its not a quote but it really helps me. if you haven't got an ipod have a look on e bay get one really cheap on there.

Hi There....

I like this, I believe it was Lance Armstrong.

“Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever."

The reason I enjoy it so much is it is so true. My training last a couple of Tuesday's ago was 9 X200m off 90 seconds recovery but after 8 I was dead on my feet. I said to my training partners that I was out as I would not be able to continue with the target pace but they suggested I forget the clock, forget the target time and just complete the final rep'...jog if I have to!

Well I done the last rep and whilst it was not on target it was a half decent effort and I felt so good afterwards so not quitting. If I had stopped I would have been kicking myself all week for letting myself down!

"I wanted to be the best because she told me I could be."

"To give anything than your best is to sacrifice this gift."

"The miracle isn't that I finished. The miracle is that I had the courage to start."

"Someone may beat me. But they're going to have to bleed to do it."

Champions aren't made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them - a desire, a dream, a vision. They have to have last-minute stamina, they have to be a little faster, they have to have the skill and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill.

If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it"

"Pain is just weakness leaving the body. It's not the size of the dog in the fight that matters, it's the size of fight in the dog! LOOK UP, GET UP, AND NEVER EVER GIVE UP! "

"There are two halves two a marathon-20 miles and 6.2 miles."

"It is within the physical capabilities of anyone who wants to run the distance. That's not to say it's easy; it isn't."

I really recommend you don't give up running- it's an amazing sport and nothing can beat the feeling you get at the end or when you realise how much you've improved. It doesn't matter if it's cross country or track.

Try just typing "motivational running quotes" into google and it comes up with many wonderful websites.

This one in particular has some inspirational running quotes:

http://running.about.com/od/runninghumor/a/running...

I would also recommend listening to "Eye of the Tiger" (the Rocky theme tune), I don't know about you, but that song always gives me a bit of a boost when I'm at the gym.

A lot of people run a race to see who is fastest. I run to see who has the most guts, who can punish himself into exhausting pace, and then at the end, punish himself even more.

A race is a work of art that people can look at and be affected in as many ways as they're capable of understanding.

To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift.

You have to wonder at times what you're doing out there. Over the years, I've given myself a thousand reasons to keep running, but it always comes back to where it started. It comes down to self-satisfaction and a sense of achievement.

"Some people create with words, or with music, or with a brush and paints. I like to make something beautiful when I run. I like to make people stop and say, "I've never seen anyone run like that before." It's more then just a race, it's a style. It's doing something better then anyone else. It's being creative."

I don't just go out there and run. I like to give people watching something exciting.

Having a true faith is the most difficult thing in the world. Many will try to take it from you.

-Steve Prefontaine

All of these are from Steve Prefontaine. I love them, and I hope they help.

Steve prefontaine-American middle distance runner-"there may be men out there who can beat me... but they are goin to have to bleed to do it!"

sylvester stallone-rocky-"it ain't about how hard you can hit... it's about how hard you can get hit... and keep moving forward... how much you can take and keep moving forward!"

Me-"and when he gets to heaven, to saint peter he will tell, another soldier reporting for duty sir! I have done my time in hell!"

Eminem-the song "till i collapse!" -"sometime you get tired, you feel weak... but when you feel weak... you feel like you just wanna give up! But you gotta search within you! You gotta find that inner strenght and pull that **** outta you!! And get that motivation.. to not give up...to not give in... no matter how much you wanna fall flat on you face!"

Sylvester stallone-rocky-"NO PAIN!! NO PAIN!!"

robert tepper-"there's no easy way out!! there's no shortcuts home!!"

Steve prefontaine-"I only wanna win if i know i've done my best!!! at the front, flat out until i have nothing left!!!"

"steve jones"-"If I am still standing at the end of the race, hit me with a board and knock me down, because that means I didn't run hard enough"

And if you wanna see a motivational movie... watch the film without limits!!!!! it's about steve prefontaine... and runner that the say felt no pain!

This is a clip and the last quote is in it!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EeieZqaOJ0Q&feature...

Don't lose your motivation, keep going, here are a couple that motivates me:

I am fit, I am strong, I am an Athlete!

I run because I can, I can because I run

I am wonder woman!

http://www.runnersworld.com/channel/0,7119,s6-243-...

I know its tough sometimes especially when your running by yourself and doing 20+Kms. It helps to join the local running club and I do long runs with them, they are motivating too.

Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Just walk beside me and be my friend. Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better. If there is a soul, it is a mistake to believe that it is given to us fully created. It is created here, throughout a whole life. And living is nothing else but that long and painful bringing forth. You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life. Above quotes all by Albert Camus Here are two poems which may bring comfort. 1) If If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too; If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or being lied about, don't deal in lies, Or being hated don't give way to hating, And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise: If you can dream and not make dreams your master; If you can think and not make thoughts your aim; If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two impostors just the same; If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools, Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken, And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools: If you can make one heap of all your winnings And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss, And lose, and start again at your beginnings And never breathe a word about your loss; If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew To serve your turn long after they are gone, And so hold on when there is nothing in you Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!" If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, Or walk with Kings nor lose the common touch, If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you, If all men count with you, but none too much; If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds' worth of distance run, Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it, And which is more you'll be a Man, my son! Rudyard Kipling 2) Two Days We Should Not Worry There are two days in every week about which we should not worry, two days which should be kept free from fear and apprehension. One of these days is Yesterday with all its mistakes and cares, its faults and blunders, its aches and pains. Yesterday has passed forever beyond our control. All the money in the world cannot bring back Yesterday. We cannot undo a single act we performed; we cannot erase a single word we said. Yesterday is gone forever. The other day we should not worry about is Tomorrow with all its possible adversities, its burdens, its large promise and its poor performance; Tomorrow is also beyond our immediate control. Tomorrow's sun will rise, either in splendor or behind a mask of clouds, but it will rise. Until it does, we have no stake in Tomorrow, for it is yet to be born. This leaves only one day, Today. Any person can fight the battle of just one day. It is when you and I add the burdens of those two awful eternities Yesterday and Tomorrow that we break down. It is not the experience of Today that drives a person mad, it is the remorse or bitterness of something which happened Yesterday and the dread of what Tomorrow may bring. Let us, therefore, Live but one day at a time. Author Unknown

just get some great tunes that you enjoy and make you feel good but not slowies. ones that have good memory's. but here are a few quotes anyway

pain is temporary.quiting is final

there is no failure in running or in life, as long as you keep moving.

our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising everytime we fall.

go get em tiger.

Remember. You could be working at mcdonalds, living in TiJuana. About to go to court, to speak to someone who will hate you like Judge Judy.

si vis pacem para bellum