Inspirational Running Quotes - Page 8

• There is the truth about the marathon and very few of you have written the truth. Even if I explain to you, you'll never understand it, you're outside of it.

  Douglas Wakiihuri

  Motivational, Running, Athlete

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• As I get, I give. Giving as you get is critical. It has everything to do with being happy for yourself, and making others happy is the cause of making yourself happy, and it’s the cycle of giving and getting.

  Russell Simmons

  Motivational, Giving, Causes

  "Russell Simmons Interview With ORIGIN Magazine: How To Make Positive Changes". Interview With Ocean Pleasant, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 3, 2013.

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• The first mile is mental. The rest are all heart.

  Summer Sanders

  Running, Heart, Firsts

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• Stepping outside the comfort zone is the price I pay to find out how good I can be. If I planned on backing off every time running got difficult I would hang up my shoes and take up knitting.

  Desiree Linden

  Running, Shoes, Knitting

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• Runners...you're competitive, but you want to have fun, too. You want to enjoy life. And runners really get to do that, I think-after we recover.

  Bill Rodgers

  Running, Fun, Thinking

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• Coaching is an art and I'm not going to let anyone change me.

  Marty Stern

  Running, Art, Coaching

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• I don't think about the miles that are coming down the road, I don't think about the mile I'm on right now, I don't think about the miles I've already covered. I think about what I'm doing right now, just being lost in the moment.

  Ryan Hall

  Running, Thinking, Live In The Moment

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• To finish will leave you feeling like a champion and positively change your life.

  Jeff Galloway

  Running, Champion, Feelings

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• Running helps me stay on an even keel and in an optimistic frame of mind.

  William J. Clinton

  Motivational, Running, Optimistic

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• Life is a positive-sum game. Everyone from the gold medallist to the last finisher can rejoice in a personal victory.

  George A. Sheehan

  Running, Games, Victory

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• Confidence is the most important quality in all athlete-coach relationships.

  Franz Stampfl

  Running, Athlete, Important

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• To understand Cerutty you have to see him as a multifaceted personality. He could be both charming and very abusive. He was extremely amusing and darn good company providing you weren't quarrelling with him.

  John Landy

  Running, Personality, Charming

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• The real purpose of running isn't to win a race, it's to test the limits of the human heart.

  Bill Bowerman

  Running, Real, Heart

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• Why aren't you signed up for the 401K? I'd never be able to run that far.

  Scott Adams

  Inspirational, Running, Able

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• Aiming for the marathon is a task of sorts which can include terrific highs and lows.

  Bill Rodgers

  Running, Tasks, Marathon

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• The more I train the more I realize I have more speed in me.

  Leroy Burrell

  Sports, Running, Preparation

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• The freedom of cross country is so primitive. It's woman vs. nature.

  Lynn Jennings

  Running, Country, Crosses

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• Coming off the last turn, my thoughts changed from 'One more try...one more try...one more try...' to 'I can win! I can win! I can win!

  Billy Mills

  Running, Winning, Trying

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• It is true that speed kills. In distance running, it kills anyone who does not have it.

  Brooks Johnson

  Running, Distance, Track

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• Thus I urge you to go onto your greatness if you believe it is in you. Think deeply and separate what you wish from what you are prepared to do.

  Percy Cerutty

  Running, Believe, Greatness

  Percy Wells Cerutty (1964). “Middle-distance running”

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• Never surrender opportunity to security.

  Branch Rickey

  Running, Opportunity, Surrender

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• If you ask me how I want to be remembered, it is as a winner. You know what a winner is? A winner is somebody who has given his best effort, who has tried the hardest they possibly can, who has utilized every ounce of energy and strength within them to accomplish something.

  Walter Payton

  Running, Mean, Best Effort

  "Never Die Easy: The Autobiography of Walter Payton".

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• There's nothing a man can't do if the spirit's there.

  Franz Stampfl

  Running, Men, Spirit

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• Running gives me confidence.

  Steve Prefontaine

  Running, Giving, Give Me

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• When you run in places you visit, you encounter things you'd never see otherwise.

  Tom Brokaw

  Running, Visits You, Encounters

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