Distance Running Quotes - Page 2

• A race is a work of art that people can look at and be affected in as many ways they're capable of understanding.

  Steve Prefontaine

  Motivational, Running, Art

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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. I like to make people stop and say, 'I've never seen anyone run like that before.' It's more than just a race, it's a style. It's doing something better than anyone else. It's being creative.

  Steve Prefontaine

  Motivational, Beautiful, Running

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• 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

  Motivational, Success, Softball

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• To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift.

  Steve Prefontaine

  Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership

  "Pre: Americas Greatest Running Legend, Steve Prefontaine". Book by Tom Jordan, 1977.

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• Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Running, Witty, Time

  "If - " st. 4 (1910)

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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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  But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep.

  Robert Frost

  Love, Inspirational, Tattoo

  "Stopping byWoods on a Snowy Evening" l. 13 (1923)

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  Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

  T. S. Eliot

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  T.S. Eliot (2015). “The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume I: Collected and Uncollected Poems”, p.1250, Faber & Faber

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• There's no such thing as bad weather, just soft people.

  Bill Bowerman

  Funny, Motivational, Nike

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• I run to see who has the most guts.

  Steve Prefontaine

  Sports, Running, Track

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• 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

  Motivational, Fitness, Running

  Jesse Owens, Paul G. Neimark (1978). “Jesse, a spiritual autobiography”

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• 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 A. Sheehan

  Motivational, Running, Ideas

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• The miracle isn't that I finished. The miracle is that I had the courage to start.

  John Bingham

  Inspirational, Softball, Sports

  John Bingham (1999). “The Courage To Start: A Guide To Running for Your Life”, p.210, Simon and Schuster

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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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• There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

  John Ruskin

  Change, Running, Rainy Day

  "The Use Of Life". Book by John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury. Chapter 4: "Recreation", 1894.

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• My whole feeling in terms of racing is that you have to be very bold. You sometimes have to be aggressive and gamble.

  Bill Rodgers

  Motivational, Running, Feelings

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• Running is the greatest metaphor for life, because you get out of it what you put into it.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Motivational, Running, Fitness

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• The mile has all the elements of a drama.

  Roger Bannister

  Running, Drama, Elements

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

  John Landy

  Running, Play, Track

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• Running! If there's any activity happier, more exhilarating, more nourishing to the imagination, I can't think of what it might be.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Running, Thinking, Imagination

  Joyce Carol Oates (2009). “The Faith of a Writer: Life, Craft, Art”, p.29, Zondervan

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• The Athlete defeats fear and conquers himself!

  Franz Stampfl

  Athlete, Defeat, Conquer

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• Big occasions and races which have been eagerly anticipated almost to the point of dread, are where great deeds can be accomplished.

  Jack Lovelock

  Motivational, Running, Race

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• Success isn't how far you got, but the distance you traveled from where you started.

  Steve Prefontaine

  Running, Distance, Track

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