Welcome to Birtley A.C.
We meet every Tuesday & Thursday evenings at 6.45pm in Lord Lawson of Beamish School, Birtley Lane, Birtley, Tyne & Wear. We encourage everyone from Age 8 no matter what ability to come and join us.
“On his world record triple jump - It's only jumping into a sandpit.
”Jonathan Edwards (1995)
“When I lost my decathlon world record I took it like a man. I only cried for ten hours.
”Daley Thompson (1980)
“A teacher is never too smart to learn from his pupils. But while runners differ, basic principles never change. So it's a matter of fitting your current practices to fit the event and the individual. See, what's good for you might not be worth a darn for the next guy.
”Bill Bowerman
“There is no certainty of the outcome in life, but you will never know what you are made of unless you choose to take part.
”Sebastian Coe
“Doctors and scientists said that breaking the four-minute mile was impossible, that one would die in the attempt. Thus, when I got up from the track after collapsing at the finish line, I figured I was dead.
”Roger Bannister (1952)
“Being a great athlete is something that requires a lot of training and dedication, it does not come as easily as some people may think.
”Haile Gebrselassie
“You have to wonder at times what you're doing out there. Over the years, I've given myself a thousand reasons to keep running, but it always comes back to where it started. It comes down to self-satisfaction and a sense of achievement.
”Steve Prefontaine
“Every time I go out and race it's a goal to go out and run faster than I've done before.
”Paula Radcliffe
“Quite simply the Games are the biggest opportunity sport in this country has ever had.
It is one that we must not squander.
”Sebastian Coe
“I've achieved everything I wanted. I have nothing to prove, including to myself. Looking at what I've achieved, I don't think there is anything that is going to surpass that.
”Kelly Holmes
“Citius, Altius, Fortius. Swifter, Higher, Stronger.
”Olympic Motto
“You find out a lot about yourself through athletics. If you're cut out to be a winner or a failure or a quitter, athletics will bring it out of you.
”Steve Ovett
“To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift.
”Steve Prefontaine
“Training gives us an outlet for suppressed energies created by stress and thus tone the spirit just as exercise conditions the body.
”Usain Bolt
“If you don't try hard you'll remain a nobody but try hard and you'll become somebody.
”Stan Long
“Just do it.
”Nike
“Hard work beats ability when ability doesn't work hard enough.
”Ed Lown, Birtley AC coach coordinator
“Anima sana in corpore sano - A sound mind in a sound body.
”Asics
