Matt Hill

• "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." - Steve Prefontaine
• "The will to win means nothing without the will to prepare." - Juma Ikangaa, 1989 NYC Marathon winner
• "Remember, the second most important thing to choosing the right shoe, is choosing the left one." - High school coach to his runners
• "Do a little more each day than you think you possibly can." - Lowell Thomas
• "Ask yourself: 'Can I give more?'. The answer is usually: 'Yes'." - Paul Tergat, Kenyan professional marathoner
• "The miracle isn't that I finished. The miracle is that I had the courage to start." - John Bingham
• "Every day is a good day when you run." - Kevin Nelson
• "Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go." - T S Eliot
• "Spend at least some of your training time, and other parts of your day, concentrating on what you are doing in training and visualizing your success." - Grete Waitz
• "No one can say, 'You must not run faster than this, or jump higher than that.' The human spirit is indomitable." - Sir Roger Bannister
• "Believe that you can run farther or faster. Believe that you're young enough, old enough, strong enough, and so on to accomplish everything you want to do. Don't let worn-out beliefs stop you from moving beyond yourself." - John Bingham
• "No one ever drowned in sweat." - Author Unknown
• "There's no such thing as bad weather, just soft people." - Bill Bowerman
• "Running long and hard is an ideal antidepressant, since it's hard to run and feel sorry for yourself at the same time. Also, there are those hours of clearheadedness that follow a long run." - Monte Davis
• "The most important key to achieving great success is to decide upon your goal and launch, get started, take action, move." - John Wooden
• "You must do the thing you think you cannot do." - Eleanor Roosevelt
• "If you want to become the best runner you can be, start now. Don't spend the rest of your life wondering if you can do it." - Priscilla Welch
• "There is an itch in runners." - Arnold Hano
• "Whether you believe you can or believe you can't, you're probably right." - Henry Ford
• "Small steps add up" - Run for One Planet motto
• "I had as many doubts as anyone else. Standing on the starting line, we're all cowards." - Alberto Salazar, three-time winner of the NYC marathon
• "Anybody can be a runner. We were meant to move. We were meant to run. It's the easiest sport." - Bill Rodgers
• "What distinguishes those of us at the starting line from those of us on the couch is that we learn through running to take what the days gives us, what our body will allow us, and what our will can tolerate." - John Bingham
• "We may train or peak for a certain race, but running is a lifetime sport." - Alberto Salazar

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