Fern Creek Cross Country and Track

Fern Creek Traditional High School
Cross Country and Track and Field

It’s a funny thing about life: if you refuse to accept anything but the very best, you will very often get it. – W. Somerset Maugham

Past Quotes of the Week

The world is full of willing people: some willing to work, and the rest willing to let them. – Robert Frost

Respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself. – Abraham Heschel

There is no penalty for overachievement. – George William Miller

I have to give up so many things, make so many personal sacrifices, to perform at my level, that I cannot even contemplate losing. – Sebastian Coe

Dream barriers look very high until someone climbs them. Then they are not barriers any more. – Lasse Viren

Racing teaches us to challenge ourselves. It teaches us to push beyond where we thought we could go. It helps us to find out what we are made of. This is what we do. This is what it’s all about. – PattiSue Plummer, 3-time US Olympian

A champion must have the desire for perfection and the will to punish himself to obtain it. – Frank Shorter

Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward. – Vernon Law

Some of the world’s greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. – Doug Larson

Never really give in as long as you have any earthly chance, and above all don’t allow yourself to fancy that you are in this predicament until the gruesome knowledge is absolutely forced upon you. For however bad you may be feeling, it is by no means impossible that the other fellows may be feeling quite as much, if not even more, distressed. – Alf Shrubb

I hate losing more than I like winning. – Charles Barkley

Its just a job. Grass grows, bird fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up. – Muhammad Ali

Running is a lot like life. Only 10 percent of it is exciting. Ninety percent of it is slog and drudge. – Dave Bedford

God has given me the ability. The rest is up to me. Believe. Believe. Believe… – Entry in the training diary of Billy Mills prior to his upset Olympic gold medal in the 10,000m run in the 1964 Tokyo Olympics.

Great people and great athletes realize early in their lives their destiny and accept it. Even if they do not consciously realize the how, the where, the what. – Percy Cerutty

The great thing about athletics is that it’s like poker sometimes: you know what’s in your hand and it may be a load of rubbish, but you’ve got to keep up the front. – Sebastian Coe

The manner in which one endures what must be endured is more important than the thing that must be endured. – Dean Acheson

With a marriage, you can change your mind. – Juma Ikangaa, on what he feels to be the major difference between a commitment to running and a commitment to marriage

Running is a big question mark that is there each and every day. It asks you, “Are you going to be a wimp or are you going to be strong today?” – Peter Maher

Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance. – Samuel Johnson

It’s not gymnastics or ice-skating, you know. – Emil Zatopek, when questioned about his pained expression while racing

All I ever wanted to do was give a great performance. If people label me the world’s greatest female track athlete, I appreciate it, I accept it, but I keep it in perspective. I know there is always going to be someone else. – Jackie Joyner-Kersee

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.. – Thomas Edison

Champions do not become champions when they win the event, but in the hours, weeks, months and years they spend preparing for it. The victorious performance itself is merely the demonstration of their championship character. – T. Alan Armstrong

Excellence in any department can be attained only by the labor of a lifetime; it is not to be purchased at a lesser price. – Samuel Johnson

A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with—a man is what he makes of himself. – Alexander Graham Bell

Formula for success: under-promise and over-deliver. – Tom Peters

You can’t build a reputation on what you intend to do. – Liz Smith

Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way. – Abraham Lincoln

You must be the change you wish to see in the world. – Mohandas Ghandi

If you do what you’ve always done, you’ll get what you’ve always gotten. – Anthony Robbins

I don’t believe you have to be better than everybody else. I believe you have to be better than you ever thought you could be. – Ken Venturi

Always remember that the future comes one day at a time. – Dean Acheson

Warriors take chances. Like everyone else they fear failing, but they refuse to let fear control them. – Samurai Proverb

It doesn't make any difference whether what you face is something that affects your work, your personal relationships, your sense of security, your appraisal of self-worth, or your appearance--the way you think about your situation largely determines whether you will do anything about it and what you will do. – Dr. Arthur Freeman

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. – Mark Twain

If you're not failing every now and again, it’s a sign you’re not doing anything very innovative. – Woody Allen

It's at the borders of pain and suffering that the men are separated from the boys. – Emil Zatopek

Don’t compromise yourself. You’re all you’ve got. – Janis Joplin

A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else. – John Burroughs

Top results are reached only through pain. But eventually you like this pain. You'll find the more difficulties you have on the way, the more you will enjoy your success. – Juha "the Cruel” Vaatainen

If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes. – St. Clement of Alexandra

Life is like wresting a gorilla. You don’t quit when you get tired; you quit when the gorilla gets tired. – Robert Strauss

It’s lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believed in myself. – Muhammad Ali

Fern Creek Traditional High School

9115 Fern Creek Road, Louisville, KY 40291

Phone: (502)485-8251 Fax: (502)485-8032