Gary Paulsen Quotes

You're never the same after you run the Iditarod, and I still lust to go out and run with dogs, even though I know that I shouldn't. But I'd give just about anything to be able to do it again. To see the horizon again from the back of a dog team would be wonderful.

I don't remember the first time I won. I remember the first time I lost, and it sucked. It was go-karts; I was, like, 6 years old.

I was really happy with my race, though. I beat my personal best by 1.2 seconds.

I've been racing for my whole life, and I know what I need to do to be able to win.

After five years in Ferrari, being second all the time, I think it was enough for me.

I'm not the sort of person who gives up on things. The first time we crossed the Atlantic in the balloon, it crashed, and we went on and did the Pacific. First time we crossed the Atlantic in a boat, it sank, and we went on and got the record. So, generally speaking, we will pick ourselves up, brush ourselves down, and carry on.

You can't become a winner overnight, or even in a couple of years-it takes time... You will lose races and you will have to accept that, learn from it and believe that you'll win the next one, knowing that you'll probably lose that as well. All the time you have to keep believing that one day you will win.

What I think is about running faster and faster, and I believe that will translate into medals.

Men climb mountains, scale heights, venture into the unexplored to prove to other men it can be done.

I've never been to playoffs.

I think I've shown that all the promises I made that I was going to win races were real and not bull.

I ran track, and I was really good at it. I was really fast.

Bobsledders are big athletes, and I'm a big athlete.

Winning a race is the goal for sure; it has to be.

There is always the excitement of running races.

Mum tries to make every race that she can.

The lesson was an Absa Cape Epic can go all directions: to the good and to the bad.

Winning and losing, it sticks with you forever.

I will be happier if I crash by trying than not trying and running around behind the same guy for 70 laps.

I go out there to do my best week in and week out to win races.

It's a sport. Sometimes you lose and sometimes you win.

To win on a mile-and-a-half is big for me.

No matter what schemes you have, if you're not in condition to run, you can't succeed.

I've always said the one change that would've been nice is if I'd been a bit faster - like fast enough to be able to run past people instead of just being overtaken all the time!

My first event was in Nottingham, aged 11, and the prize was a bike. I thought, 'Wow.' I had no idea what to wear. I think I did it in swimming trunks, then just put on a T-shirt and shoes for the bike part. Triathlons felt exotic. There was a technical and tactical aspect to it as well as the endurance challenge. I was hooked.