Greatest quotes, part 2

"As long as you keep making RFM (Relentless Forward Motion), you will finish." - Stacey Page

"Find your limits and exceed them." - Lynn Strickland

"Road sucks!" - Skip & Tracey

"Your body will argue that there is no justifiable reason to continue. Your only recourse is to call on your spirit, which fortunately functions independently of logic." - Tim Noakes

"Beware of the chair!" - Unknown

"I never knew I could DNF and still have so much fun." - Gregg Heinrichs

"For all the hardship, I was still excited to be on the trail, testing my endurance, feeling especially alive as strength and fatigue flowed alternately through my limbs." - Colin Powell

"No doubt a brain and some shoes are essential for marathon success, although if it comes down to a choice, pick the shoes. More people finish marathons with no brains than with no shoes." - Don Kardong

"The runner need not break four minutes in the mile or four hours in the marathon. It is only neccessary that he runs and runs and sometimes suffers. Then one day he will wake up and discover that somewhere along the the way he has begun to see the order and law and love and truth that makes men free." - George Sheehan

"... slowed my pace to the point that I could have been rear-ended by a sleepy snail." - Dave Olney

"If a frog had wings, he wouldn't bump his butt." - Keith Woestehoff

"When you're afraid of failure you're more likely to do it." - Gordy Ainsleigh

"Succeeding makes you forget the failures." - Harry Cordellos, blind athlete (2:57 at Boston in 1975)

"Science can be useful, or it can just get in the way." - Karl King

"I want to thank the rest of you for making me look normal." - Gordon Ainsleigh

"Far away, there in the sunshine, are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they may lead." - Louisa May Alcott

"Nothing ever fatigues me, except that which I dislike." - Jane Austen

"Runners can get through the weary and lonely hours only if they are at peace in themselves." - Ayers

"The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do." - Bagehot

"No matter how well you know the course, no matter how well you may have done in a given race in the past, you never know for certain what lies ahead on the day you stand at the starting line waiting to test yourself once again. If you did know, it would not be a

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