8 Quotes by Kilian Jornet

Winning isn't about finishing in first place. It isn't about beating the others. It is about overcoming yourself. Overcoming your body, your limitations, and your fears. Winning means surpassing yourself and turning your dreams into reality.

A race is a life that is born when you get up in the morning and dies when you cross the finish line.

Tajemství netkví v nohách, ale v síle donutit se jít běhat, když prší, fouká vítr a sněží; když blesky zapalují stromy ve chvíli, kdy okolo nich probíháš; když ti hroudy sněhu nebo kroupy buší do nohou a nahého těla v bouři a rozpláčou tě, a ty, abys mohl pokračovat, musíš utřít slzy, abys viděl kameny, skalní stěny, nebe.

Winning isn’t about finishing in first place. It isn’t about beating the others. It is about overcoming yourself. Overcoming your body, your limitations, and your fears. Winning means surpassing yourself and turning your dreams into reality.

The secret isn’t in your legs, but in your strength of mind. You need to go for a run when it is raining, windy, and snowing, when lightning sets trees on fire as you pass them, when snowflakes or hailstones strike your legs and body in the storm and make you weep, and in order to keep running, you have to wipe away the tears to see the stones, walls, or sky.

I am not afraid to fail; to get lost, to dream, to be myself, to find. I am not afraid to live.

Thresholds don’t exist in terms of our bodies. Our speed and strength depend on our body, but the real thresholds, those that make us give up or continue the struggle, those that enable us to fulfill our dreams, depend not on our bodies but on our minds and the hunger we feel to turn dreams into reality.

There’s no better way to get to know a city than to discover it through running!