Distance Runner Quotes - Page 2

• The long run is what puts the tiger in the cat.

  Bill Squires

  Running, Cat, Long

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• 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

  Inspirational, Motivational, Running

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• When you run the marathon, you run against the distance, not against the other runners and not against the time.

  Haile Gebrselassie

  Running, Distance, Half Marathons

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• I always loved running.... It was something you could do by yourself and under your own power.

  Jesse Owens

  Running, Endurance, Track And Field

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• 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.

  Roger Bannister

  Motivational, Sports, Running

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• Some people create with words or with music or with a brush and paints. I like to make something beautiful when I run

  Steve Prefontaine

  Beautiful, Running, People

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• The real competition is against the little voice inside you that wants to quit

  George A. Sheehan

  Running, Real, Voice

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• You shall become the person you are.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Jogging, Great Running, Distance Running

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, p.219, Vintage

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• Finland has produced so many brilliant distance runners because back home it costs $2.50 a gallon for gas.

  Esa Tikkanen

  Inspirational, Funny, Running

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• A runners creed: I will win; if I cannot win, I shall be second; if I cannot be second, I shall be third; if I cannot place at all, I shall still do my best.

  Ken Doherty

  Running, Winning, Creeds

  Ken Doherty (1964). “Modern training for running”, Prentice Hall

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• In golf, as in life, you get out of it what you put into it.

  Sam Snead

  Running, Golf, Track

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• Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.

  Henry James

  Art, Philosophy, Inspirational Running

  Henry James (1852). “Lectures and miscellanies”, p.124

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• We run, not because we think it is doing us good, but because we enjoy it and cannot help ourselves

  Roger Bannister

  Running, Thinking, Training

  Sir Roger Bannister (2011). “The First Four Minutes”, p.142, The History Press

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• There are as many reasons for running as there are days in a year.... But mostly I run because I am an animal and a child.

  George A. Sheehan

  Running, Children, Animal

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• Onions make me sad. A lot of people don't realize that.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Depression, Humor

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• The mile has a classic symmetry....It's a play in four acts.

  John Landy

  Running, Play, Track

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• If one can stick to the training throughout the many long years, then will power is no longer a problem. It's raining? That doesn't matter. I am tired? That's besides the point. It's simply that I just have to.

  Emil Zatopek

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

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• The Athlete defeats fear and conquers himself!

  Franz Stampfl

  Athlete, Defeat, Conquer

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• Top results are achieved only through pain. But eventually you like this pain.

  Juha Vaatainen

  Pain, Results, Great Running

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• The mile has all the elements of a drama.

  Roger Bannister

  Running, Drama, Elements

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• I haven't seen too many American distance men on the international scene willing to take risks. I saw some U.S. women in Barcelona willing to risk, more than men. The Kenyans risk. Steve Prefontaine risked. I risked - I went through the first half of the Tokyo race just a second off my best 5000 time.

  Billy Mills

  Running, Distance, Men

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• Those who say that I will lose and am finished will have to run over my body to beat me.

  Said Aouita

  Motivational, Running, Athlete

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• People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Inspirational, Perseverance, Business

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• It's at the borders of pain and suffering that the men are separated from the boys.

  Emil Zatopek

  Running, Pain, Not Giving Up

  Attributed to Emil Zatopek in "Citius, Altius, Fortius" ("Swifter, Higher, Stronger"), an unsigned article from Khaleej Times, August 8, 2008.

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• Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Motivational, Wisdom, Perseverance

  Quoted in Quotable Calvin Coolidge, ed. Peter Hannaford (2001).

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