Born To Run Quotes - Page 2

• We say the rarajipari is the game of life, ' Angel said. 'You never know how hard it will be. You never know when it will end. You can't control it. You can only adjust.

  Christopher McDougall

  Angel, Games, Ends

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• In the day we sweat it out on the streets on a runaway American dream.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Dream, Work, Sweat

  "Born to Run" (song) (1974)

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• Perhaps all our troubles - all the violence, obesity, illness, depression, and greed we can't overcome - began when we stopped living as Running People. Deny your nature, and it will erupt in some other, uglier way.

  Christopher McDougall

  Running, People, Greed

  Christopher McDougall (2010). “Born to Run: The hidden tribe, the ultra-runners, and the greatest race the world has never seen”, p.99, Profile Books

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• I saw rock n' roll future and its name is Bruce Springsteen.

  Jon Landau

  Rocks, Names, Saws

  "We Are Alive" by David Remnick, www.newyorker.com. July 30, 2012.

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• "Born To Run," that expands every time we go out. It just seems to you - more of your life fills it in, fills in the story. And when we hit it every night, it's always a huge catharsis. It's fascinating to see the audience singing it back to me. It's quite wonderful, you know, to see people that intensely singing your song.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Running, Song, Night

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I think initially, our audiences were filled with young men. You know, our initial audience was a lot of young guys who I think were trying to - who you played a bit of a big brother role for and were trying to sort out a lot of the same things right - soon as "Born To Run" hit, you know? So it was something that I worked pretty hard on.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Running, Brother, Men

  Source: www.npr.org

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• We're still buzzin' about Bruce Springsteen at halftime, but I'll tell you if there was one guy we weren't thinking was 'Born To Run' it was James Harrison.

  Bob Costas

  Running, Thinking, Guy

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• After 'Born to Run,' I had a reaction to my good fortune. With success, it felt like a lot of people who'd come before me lost some essential part of themselves. My greatest fear was that success was going to change or diminish that part of myself.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Running, Greatest Fear, People

  "Bruce Springsteen: 'People thought we were gone. Finished'". Interview with Keith Cameron, www.theguardian.com. September 23, 2010.

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• I'd like my life to be like a Bruce Springsteen song. Just once. I know I'm not born to run, I know that Seven Sisters' Road is nothing like Thunder Road, but feelings can't be different, can they?

  Nick Hornby

  Running, Song, Feelings

  Nick Hornby (1996). “High Fidelity”, p.169, Penguin

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• Someday girl, I don't know when, were gonna get to the place where we really want to go, and we'll walk in the sun. But til then, tramps like us, baby, we were born to run.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Inspirational, Girl, Running

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• I read Christopher McDougall's book 'Born to Run.' If running were a religion, this would be its bible. I actually scribbled my favorite passages on my arm to read during the race.

  Jennifer Carpenter

  Running, Book, Race

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• Well I was born to run, to get ahead of the rest. And all that I wanted was to be the best Just to feel free and be someone I was born to be fast, I was born to run .

  Emmylou Harris

  Running, Being The Best, Wells

  Song: BORN TO RUN Words and Music by Paul Kennerley, Album: The Very Best of Emmylou Harris: Heartaches and Highways

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• Anytime you spend six months on a song (Born to Run), there's something not exactly going right. A song should take about three hours.

  Steven Van Zandt

  Running, Song, Three

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