Marathon Quotes - Page 12

• Doing the long endurance stuff seems to have given me the strength to sustain the speed. I think my body is just a lot stronger (thanks to the marathon)... By increasing the long runs, I found that does not take anything away from the speed but increases the strength on the track.

  Paula Radcliffe

  Running, Thinking, Long

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• I've been an exercise maniac most of my adult life, running marathons and triathlons, doing that as a regular way of life. I ran eight miles a day, every day for 29 years.

  Wayne Dyer

  Running, Exercise, Eight

  "Live from a Place of Love: An Interview with Wayne Dyer". Interview with Paul Sutherland, spiritualityhealth.com. March 28, 2012.

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• Comedy Central made me delete the Boston Marathon joke. I wasn't happy about it but, despite popular belief, I can occasionally be a team player.

  Anthony Jeselnik

  Team, Player, Boston

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. July 9, 2013.

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• I like making comics and animation because it takes such a long time. I'm not a runner of the 100 meter. I like marathons. The longer it takes, the better I feel.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Long, Meter, Animation

  Source: editorial.rottentomatoes.com

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• Jordan ran the London marathon to help raise money for the blind. After jogging that far with her body, I'm surprised she hasn't joined them!

  Frankie Boyle

  Funny, Humor, London

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• What little reality television I've seen seems to be about economic desperation. Like the marathon dancing of the Great Depression, which should give us pause. People willing to eat flies and worms for a sum that is less than the weekly paycheck of the show's producer. I haven't seen "reality television" that is other than this kind of painful, sadistic exploitation of fit young people looking for agents.

  Lorrie Moore

  Reality, People, Giving

  The Believer interview, www.believermag.com. October 2005.

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• If you change your lifestyle, remember it's not a wind sprint, but it's a marathon you're embarked on, and you'll be able to stay there.

  Mehmet Oz

  Wind, Able, Remember

  "Dr. Oz's Webcast Transcript". Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. January 13, 2009.

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• For the greater a man's works for the future, the less the present can comprehend them; the harder his fight, and the rarer success. If, however, once in centuries success does come to a man, perhaps in his latter days a faint beam of his coming glory may shine upon him. To be sure, these great men are only the Marathon runners of history; the laurel wreath of the present touches only the brow of the dying hero.

  Adolf Hitler

  Hero, Fighting, Men

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• It's always harder than you think to make a good film. Feature films are a hell of a marathon to say the least. It's kind of your endurance. How much can I push? How much do I care? How much time it takes is a nice reminder.

  Shaul Schwarz

  Nice, Thinking, Endurance

  Source: collider.com

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• I think psychedelics are sort of like doing calisthenics in preparation for the marathon at the end of time.

  Terence McKenna

  Thinking, Preparation, Ends

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• I always do an all-night horror marathon on Saturdays where we start at seven and go until five in the morning.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Good Morning, Night, Horror

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• Until we fully understand what turned two brothers who allegedly perpetrated the Boston Marathon bombings into murderers, it is hard to make any policy recommendation other than this: We need to redouble our efforts to make America stronger and healthier so it remains a vibrant counterexample to whatever bigoted ideology may have gripped these young men....And the best place to start is with a carbon tax.

  Thomas Friedman

  Brother, Men, Boston

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• I've run the marathon several times, so I definitely don't look like the Great Ancestor!

  George Takei

  Running, Looks, Ancestor

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I have a lot of people who are soap fans and they definitely know who I am, even if they call me by my character's name. I get a lot of people thinking maybe they know me from high school. My career has been a slow burn, a gradual rise, which I prefer since this is a marathon and not a sprint, so I kind of like where I am and where I'm going.

  Sherri Saum

  School, Character, Thinking

  Source: 411mania.com

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• At the time, in 1996, an electronic band signing with a major label was something new, at least in France. Daft Punk knew that this meant a marathon of promotion, TV appearances, etc. To protect themselves and to be discrete, they came up with the masks and, three years later, the robot helmets.

  Pedro Winter

  Years, Labels, Band

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Playing a three-hour Rush show is like running a marathon while solving equations.

  Neil Peart

  Running, Romance, Three

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• I feel it's that I don't ever give up on myself, and I'd rather run a marathon than a sprint. Personally, I think I'm a slow learner who's getting better every year, every moment, every project. I've met so many amazing people along the way. And there's no gimmick with me. What you see is what you get.

  Nia Long

  Running, Giving Up, Thinking

  Source: aalbc.com

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• Around mile 20 I was feeling so good, I wanted to kiss everyone.

  Josh Ritter

  Kissing, Feelings, Miles

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• Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future, predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me, and far from my friends be such frigid philosophy as may conduct us indifferent and unmoved over any ground which has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue. That man is little to be envied whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of Ionia.

  Samuel Johnson

  Philosophy, Thinking, Past

  'A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland' (1775) 'Inch Kenneth'

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• Finish: Even if you run a slower than expected time, you succeed in any marathon when you finish.

  Hal Higdon

  Running, Succeed, Expected

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• It's a long, hard road and it's going to have its bumps; there are going to be times when you fall and times when you don't feel like going on anymore, times when you're just crazy tired but it takes focusing on that one step you're taking. That's what I'm trying to do with the marathon; 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

  Crazy, Fall, Tired

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• The more you frame the marathon as a stressful experience, the more negative messages you'll receive. But it's just as easy to frame it as a positively challenging journey.

  Jeff Galloway

  Journey, Challenges, Negative

  Jeff Galloway (2001). “Marathon: You Can Do It!”, p.80, Shelter Publications, Inc.

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• I am thankful that there are different seasons in life and training. I have learned to embrace each season realizing how important it is to allow the body, mind and spirit to fully cycle through each. My current season of marathon training is my favorite. I love the simple life of training and going after a goal with everything I have.

  Ryan Hall

  Simple, Goal, Training

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• There are many pitfalls in the marathon of life. But regardless of what you go through, you can count on God's sustaining grace.

  Rick Warren

  Christian, Grace, Religion

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• Since I was forty and definitely slipping, I have won seven full marathons, got second six times, and third four times.... I'm wondering what I can do after I'm fifty.

  Clarence DeMar

  Endurance, Four, Fifty

  Clarence DeMar (2016). “Marathon: Autobiography of Clarence Demar- America's Grandfather of Running”, p.143, BookBaby

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