You've got to look for tough competition. You've got to want to beat the best.

- Grete Waitz

Too many people I meet believe that you can sit in a chair and be given motivation. With exercise and fitness, you get it by doing. The mental qualit…

- Grete Waitz

Exercise and sports are greatly affected by what goes into the mind, and the mind is greatly affected by sports and exercise as well. This is true am…

- Grete Waitz

Everyone wins the marathon. We all have the same feeling at the start-nervous, anxious, excited. It is a broader, richer, and even with twenty-seven …

- Grete Waitz

Running gives me a clearer perspective on the world, and it makes me feel special. I've never been a traditional tourist. I've always seen the world …

- Grete Waitz

For every finish-line tape a runner breaks -- complete with the cheers of the crowd and the clicking of hundreds of cameras -- there are the hours of…

- Grete Waitz

Sustained motivation is essential to achieving your potential.

- Grete Waitz

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

To suddenly be a hero on a world basis was hard for me to understand. God gave me a gift. I got the chance to use it. I didn't think I deserved what …

- Grete Waitz