We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Frustration is the first step towards improvement. I have no incentive to improve if I’m content with what I can do and if I’m completely satisfied with my pace, distance and form as a runner. It’s only when I face frustration and use it to fuel my dedication that I feel myself moving forwards.”
Run like hell and get the agony over with.
I always loved running… it was something you could do by yourself, and under your own power. You could go in any direction, fast or slow as you wanted, fighting the wind if you felt like it, seeking out new sights just on the strength of your feet and the courage of your lungs.
Jesse Owens
When you win, say nothing. When you lose, say less.
The will to win means nothing if you haven’t the will to prepare.
Running is one the best solutions to a clear mind.
To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift.
Running has never failed to give me great end results, and that’s why I keep coming back for more!
Jogging is very beneficial. It’s good for your legs and your feet. It’s also very good for the ground. It makes it feel needed.
Charles Schulz
Running helps me stay on an even keel and in an optimistic frame of mind.
Having a true faith is the most difficult thing in the world. Many will try to take it from you.
Running is one of the best solutions to a clear mind.
The only reason I would take up jogging is so that I could hear heavy breathing again.
Erma Bombeck
If you feel like eating, eat. Let your body tell you what it wants.
Pressure is nothing more than the shadow of great opportunity.
If you start to feel good during an ultra, don’t’ worry you will get over it.
Most people run a race to see who is fastest. I run a race to see who has the most guts.
Steve Prefontaine
The gun goes off and everything changes… the world changes… and nothing else really matters.
I’m going to go out a winner if I have to find a high school race to win my last race.
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
You don’t run against a bloody stop watch, do you hear? A runner runs against himself, against the best that’s in him. Not against a dead thing of wheels and pulleys. That’s the way to be great, running against yourself. Against all the rotten mess in the world. Against God, if you’re good enough.
Bill Persons
I always loved running…it was something you could do by yourself, and under your own power. You could go in any direction, fast or slow as you wanted, fighting the wind if you felt like it, seeking out new sights just on the strength of your feet and the courage of your lungs.”
Jesse Owens
I always loved running…it was something you could do by yourself, and under your own power. You could go in any direction, fast or slow as you wanted, fighting the wind if you felt like it, seeking out new sights just on the strength of your feet and the courage of your lungs.
The will to win means nothing without the will to prepare.
Juma Ikangaa
To a runner, a side stich is like a car alarm. It signifies something is wrong, but you ignore it until it goes away.
In running, it doesn’t matter whether you come in first, in the middle of the pack, or last. You can say, ‘I have finished.’ There is a lot of satisfaction in that.
Fred Lebow, New York City Marathon co-founder
It hurts up to a point and then it doesn’t get any worse.
Running is the greatest metaphor for life, because you get out of it what you put into it.
Oprah Winfrey
I don’t jog. If I die I want to be sick.
Abe Lemmons
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 Plumer
The gun goes off and everthing changes… the world changes… and nothing else really matters.
Running is a big question mark that’s 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
It’s unnatural for people to run around the city streets unless they are thieves or victims. It makes people nervous to see someone running. I know that when I see someone running on my street, my instincts tell me to let the dog go after him.
Mike Royko
We run, not because we think it is doing us good, but because we enjoy it and cannot help ourselves…The more restricted our society and work become, the more necessary it will be to find some outlet for this craving for freedom. No one can say, ‘You must not run faster than this, or jump higher than that.’ The human spirit is indomitable.
Sir Roger Bannister
You have to forget your last marathon before you try another. Your mind can’t know what’s coming.
Ask yourself: ‘Can I give more?’. The answer is usually: ‘Yes’.
Paul Tergat
Only think of two things – the gun and the tape. When you hear the one, just run like hell until you break the other.
Sam Mussabini
The miracle isn’t that I finished. The miracle is that I had the courage to start.
John Bingham
Some of the world’s greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible.
Stadiums are for spectators. We runners have nature and that is much better.
Juha Vaatainen
The trouble with jogging is that the ice falls out of your glass.
Martin Mull
The start of a World Cross Country event is like riding a horse in the middle of a buffalo stampede. It’s a thrill if you keep up, but one slip and you’re nothing but hoof prints.
Ed Eyestone
If you start to feel good during an ultra, don’t worry you will get over it.
The freedom of Cross Country is so primitive. It’s woman vs. nature.
Lynn Jennings
Finland has produced so many brilliant distance runners because back home it costs $2.50 a gallon for gas.
Esa Tikkannen
The footing was really atrocious. I loved it. I really like Cross Country; you’re one with the mud.
Lynn Jennings
The woods are lovely dark and deep, but I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep.
Cross Country is like poker. You have to be holding five good cards all the time.
Blink and you miss a sprint. The 10,000 meters is lap after lap of waiting. Theatrically, the mile is just the right length – beginning, middle, end: a story unfolding.
Sebastian Coe
A running machine, that glides over mud, crud and goop.
I have met my hero, and he is me.
The secret of cross country is to do everything we on the track and take it into the bush.
There are as many reasons for running as there are days in the year, years in my life. But mostly I run because I am an animal and a child, an artist and a saint. So, too, are you. Find your own play, your own self-renewing compulsion, and you will become the person you are meant to be.
George Sheehan
Running is like mouthwash; if you can feel the burn, it’s working.
Brian Tackett
No negative thoughts cross my mind on race day. When I look into their eyes, I know I’m going to beat them.
Life is short… running makes it seem longer.
Baron Hansen
If God invented marathons to keep people from doing anything more stupid, the triathlon must have taken Him completely by surprise.
P.Z. Pearce
When people ask me why I run, I tell them, there’s not really a reason, it’s just the adrenalin when you start, and the feeling when you cross that finish line, and know that you are a winner no matter what place you got.
Courtney Parsons
Tough times don’t last but tough people do.
People don’t know why we run, but it’s the hard work you put into practice, and the reward you get from the race.
Courtney Parsons
Everyone who has run knows that its most important value is in removing tension and allowing a release from whatever other cares the day may bring.
Jimmy Carter
My greatest ideas stem from running.
Sasha Azevedo
I cannot have survival as my only goal. That would be too boring. My goal is to come back in my best running form. It is good for me to have that goal; it will help me.
The difference between a jogger and a runner is an entry blank.
George Sheehan
When I came back, after all those stories about Hitler and his snub, I came back to my native country, and I could not ride in the front of the bus. I had to go to the back door. I couldn’t live where I wanted. Now what’s the difference?
There is an itch in runners.
Arnold Hano
There are clubs you can’t belong to, neighborhoods you can’t live in, schools you can’t get into, but the roads are always open.
I believe that the Good Lord gave us a finite number of heartbeats and I’m damned if I’m going to use up mine running up and down a street.
Neil Armstrong
What matters is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight – it’s the size of the fight in the dog.
I don’t think jogging is healthy, especially morning jogging. If morning joggers knew how tempting they looked to morning motorists, they would stay home and do sit-ups.
Rita Rudner
Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.
Runners just do it – they run for the finish line even if someone else has reached it first.
I’ve always felt that long, slow distance produces long, slow runners.