“Most people run a race to see who is fastest. I run a race to see who has the most guts.” — Steve Prefontaine
“Runners are the ultimate celebration people. Running is just so intense, you’re really experiencing life to the fullest.” — Bill Rodgers
“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
“You have to forget your last marathon before you try another. Your mind can’t know what’s coming.” – Frank Shorter
The only reason I would take up jogging is so that I could hear heavy breathing again. – Erma Bombeck
“I used to jog but the ice cubes kept falling out of my glass.” –David Lee Roth
“So much in life seems inflexible and unchangeable, and part of the joy of running and especially racing is the realization that improvement and progress can be achieved.” Nancy Anderson
“Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.” – Jim Ryun
“We all have those days, weeks, months – just keep running through it & you’ll come out the other side!” — Jenn Bacile
“Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they’ve got a second.” –William James
“Build step by step. Push yourself, but not too hard. Learn. Keep it fun.” –Matt Fitzgerald
“Running is real and relatively simple…but it ain’t easy.” – Mark Will-Weber
“We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.” - Will Rogers
“It’s very hard in the beginning to understand that the whole idea is not to beat the other runners. Eventually you learn that the competition is against the little voice inside you that wants you to quit.” - George Sheehan
“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.” – Nike
“I’ve always felt that long, slow distance produces long, slow runners.” – Sebastian Coe
“Why aren’t you signed up for the 401K?”
“I’d never be able to run that far.” – Dilbert
“Every morning in Africa a gazelle wakes up. It knows it must move faster than the lion or it will not survive. Every morning a lion wakes up and it knows it must move faster than the slowest gazelle or it will starve. It doesn’t matter if you are the lion or the gazelle, when the sun comes up, you better be moving.” – Maurice Greene (attributed to Roger Bannister shortly after running the first sub-4 mile)
Finland has produced so many brilliant distance runners because back home it costs $2.50 a gallon for gas. – Esa Tikkannen, 1979
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
If God invented marathons to keep people from doing anything more stupid, the triathlon must have taken Him completely by surprise. – P.Z. Pearce
The difference between a jogger and a runner is an entry blank. – George Sheehan
“There ain’t no shame looking at a good runner’s back. Now, if the runner sucks, that’s something else entirely… “The Rage, Training Tips “Comeback”
“No doubt a brain and some shoes are essential for marathon success, although if it comes down to a choice, pick the shoes. More people finish marathons with no brains than with no shoes.” – Don Kardong
“There will come a point in the race, when you alone will need to decide. You will need to make a choice. Do you really want it? You will need to decide.” – Rolf Arands
“Most mistakes in a race are made in the first two minutes, perhaps in the very first minute.” – Jack Daniels, Exercise Physiologist and Coach
“Why aren’t you signed up for the 401K? I’d never be able to run that far.” – Scott Adams, Dilbert (4/2/01)
“If you can’t win, make the fellow ahead of you break the record.” – Unknown
“Hills are speedwork in disguise.” – Frank Shorter
“Run like hell and get the agony over with.” - Clarence DeMar
“If you run 100 miles a week, you can eat anything you want – Why? Because…
(a) you’ll burn all the calories you consume, (b) you deserve it, and (c) you’ll be injured soon and back on a restricted diet anyway.” - Don Kardong
“Your body will argue that there is no justifiable reason to continue. Your only recourse is to call on your spirit, which fortunately functions independently of logic.” - Tim Noakes
“Now if you are going to win any battle you have to do one thing. You have to make the mind run the body. Never let the body tell the mind what to do. The body will always give up. It is always tired morning, noon, and night. But the body is never tired if the mind is not tired. When you were younger the mind could make you dance all night, and the body was never tired..You’ve got to make the mind take over and keep going.” - George S. Patton, U.S. Army General and 1912 Olympian
“My favorite moments are when I pass someone who’s huffing and puffing and all I got are some slightly tired legs” – Troy Streacker
“Aspire to be great instead of good, aspire to be remembered instead of forgotten, aspire to accompish what others have and have not done, aspire to be yourself and nothing else for when you strive to be yourself everything is limitless because you are not holding yourself to the limits of others.” – Troy Streacker
“Running is the greatest metaphor for life, because you get out of it what you put into it.” – Oprah Winfrey
“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, U.S. Olympian
“You also need to look back, not just at the people who are running behind you but especially at those who don’t run and never will…those who run but don’t race…those who started training for a race but didn’t carry through…those who got to the starting line but didn’t get to the finish line…those who once raced better than you but no longer run at all. You’re still here. Take pride in wherever you finish. Look at all the people you’ve outlasted.” – Joe Henderson
“The task ahead of you is never greater than the strength within you.” – Unknown
“Today I will do what others won’t, So tomorrow I can do what others can’t”. – Unknown
“Train hard, race easy, & enjoy the run!” — P. Mark Taylor
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