Quotes About Determination

Christopher McDougall

Ann knew she needed more than willpower: she needed fear. Once she was out front, every cracking twig would spur her toward the finish. "To move into the lead means making an act requiring fierceness and confidence," Roger Bannister once noted. "But fear must play some part … no relaxation is possible, and all discretion is thrown to the wind.

All my pacers are women," Chlouber says. "They get the job done.

while Jack Kirk—a.k.a. "the Dipsea Demon"—was still running the hellacious Dipsea Trail Race at age ninety-six. The race begins with a 671-step cliffside climb, which means a man nearly half as old as America was climbing a fifty-story staircase before running off into the woods. "You don't stop running because you get old," said the Demon. "You get old because you stop running.

I didn't love running, but I wanted to.

Christopher McDougall

Even Cliff Young, the sixty-three-year-old farmer who stunned Australia in 1983 by beating the best ultrarunners in the country in a 507-mile race from Sydney to Melbourne, did it all on beans, beer, and oatmeal ("I used to feed the calves by hand and they thought I was their mother," Young said. "I couldn't sleep too good those nights when I knew they would get slaughtered." He switched to grains and potatoes, and slept a whole lot better. Ran pretty good, too).

Make friends with pain, and you will never be alone.

To move into the lead means making an act requiring fierceness and confidence," Roger Bannister once noted. "But fear must play some part … no relaxation is possible, and all discretion is thrown to the wind.

encontrando en qué se parecían. Así que llevó a cabo un truco que le había enseñado el doctor Bramble: cuando no puedes dar respuesta a una pregunta, dale la vuelta. Olvidemos qué es lo que da velocidad, pensemos en qué te quita velocidad. Después de todo, no solo importaba cuán rápido podía ir un conejo, sino cuán rápido podía seguir corriendo hasta que encontrara un agujero donde zambullirse.

Mira, tengo malas noticias —dijo—. No vas a ganar. Sin importar lo que hagas, vas a estar ahí fuera todo el día. Así que lo mejor será que te relajes, te tomes tu tiempo y lo disfrutes. Quédate con esto en la cabeza: si sientes que requiere demasiado esfuerzo, es que estás esforzándote más de la cuenta.

Just move your legs. Because if you don't think you were born to run, you're not only denying history. You're denying who you are.

uno debe convertirse en una persona fuerte antes de convertirse en un corredor fuerte.

Caballo había pasado tantos años navegando estos caminos que tenía apodos para las piedras que encontraba bajo sus pies: algunas eran «ayudantes», porque te permitían dar el paso con potencia hacia delante; otras eran «embusteras», porque parecían ayudantes pero rodaban a traición cuando despegabas; y algunas eran «chingoncitos», pequeños cabrones listos para hacerte caer. —

Christopher McDougall

Uno no deja de correr porque se hace viejo —decía siempre el Demonio de Dipsea—, uno se hace viejo porque deja de correr…» —Y

Until now, we would say that the Greeks fight like heroes. From now on, we will say that heroes fight like Greeks. —WINSTON CHURCHILL, 1941

Wagner should have known from the Tichatschek affair that Ludwig was capable of acting with steely determination in order to have his own way. The King had set his heart on having the Rheingold production as soon as possible and was not going to allow anyone to sabotage it.

My mother raised three children on her own and my dad was a doctor working 16 hours a day.

Big shots are just little shots that keep shooting.

Wars are won in the mind before they can be won on the field.

Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

What's happened, happened. Which is an expression of faith in the mechanics of the world. It's not an excuse to do nothing.

Into the sky to win or die.