The miracle isn't that I finished. The miracle is that I had the courage to start.
The marathon can humble you.
Exerting yourself to the fullest within your individual limits: that's the essence of running, and a metaphor for life
Your shoes are only as good as the laces they're attached to.
I always loved running.... It was something you could do by yourself and under your own power.
Winning isn't everything. Wanting to is.
If you don't have answers to your problems after a four-hour run, you ain't getting them.
I run because it's my passion, and not just a sport. Every time I walk out the door, I know why I'm going where I'm going and I'm already focused on that special place where I find my peace and solitude. Running, to me, is more than just a physical exercise... it's a consistent reward for victory!
In running it is man against himself, the cruelest of opponents. The other runners are not the real enemies. His adversary lies within him, in his ability with brain and heart to master himself and his emotions.
Ask yourself: 'Can I give more?'. The answer is usually: 'Yes'.
Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end; then stop.
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.
...rapid motion through space elates one.
A race is a work of art that people can look at and be affected in as many ways they're capable of understanding.
Listen to your body. Do not be a blind and deaf tenant.
No matter how old I get, the race remains one of life's most rewarding experiences. My times become slower and slower, but the experience of the race is unchanged: each race a drama, each race a challenge, each race stretching me in one way or another, and each race telling me more about myself and others.
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.
I think some of the most celebrated moments in human achievement should be those times when everything is going against a person and they are down in the dumps but they simply choose to get up. That's real greatness!
If you want to win a race you have to go a little berserk.
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.
If it hurts, make it hurt more.
Run like hell and get the agony over with.
The body is given out on loan - don't waste it and expect to use it tomorrow.
Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up, it knows it must outrun the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning in Africa, a lion wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the slowest gazelle, or it will starve. It doesn't matter whether you're the lion or a gazelle-when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.
I still bother with runners I call hamburgers. They're never going to run any record times. But they can fulfill their own potential.
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