A race is a work of art that people can look at and be affected in as many ways they're capable of understanding.
Good things come slow, especially in distance running.
Run like hell and get the agony over with.
Just put one foot in front of the other.
Don't bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself.
In golf, as in life, you get out of it what you put into it.
To describe the agony of a marathon to someone who's never run it is like trying to explain color to someone who was born blind.
It doesn't matter whether you are a lion or a gazelle. When the sun comes up, you better be running.
It is true that speed kills. In distance running, it kills anyone who does not have it.
The body does not want you to do this. As you run, it tells you to stop but the mind must be strong. You always go too far for your body. You must handle the pain with strategy...It is not age; it is not diet. It is the will to succeed.
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.
Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible.
The five S's of sports training are: stamina, speed, strength, skill, and spirit; but the greatest of these is spirit.
Run when you can, walk if you have to, crawl if you must; just never give up.
The will to win means nothing without the will to prepare.
I had as many doubts as anyone else. Standing on the starting line, we're all cowards.
Do a little more each day than you think you possibly can.
Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.
All athletes need three things: commitment, discipline and hard work. Without that it's hard to keep running.
It was fun to talk too much [as Jebediah Woodley], to keep running your mouth whether the other characters want to hear it or not. That's part of what made this guy fun.
I just can't surrender. I can't start something and then surrender because of political reasons. I just don't do that, and that goes back to me, why I keep running when I should probably take it easy, even though I have no hobbies, and enjoy the rest of my life.
The things I really cared about - poverty, the Great Society, civil rights - were all being drained away by the Vietnam War. The line that keeps running through my mind is the line I never spoke: "I can't speak for a war that I believe is immoral."
I meet a third man he's an old man he trips in the street he falls and I help him up, walk him to the curb. He shakes my hand says keep the faith, young man. I ask him what he means, he says keep running and don't let them catch you.
Happiness of heart can never be measured out and bundled up, it's intangible. We keep running after it, grasping for it, and the heat of our running so seldom brings it closer. But now and then there may be a moment. We look at something and know it is good and beautiful. Those moments are happiness.
You keep running and one day when you stop running your going to fall, and I'm going to be there to catch you.
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