Marathon Quotes - Page 15

• Running unites us and brings us together because, in the words of the great Bill Rogers, "We sweat the same. We struggle the same." Running is a simple, primitive act, and therein lays its power. for it is one of the few commonalities left between us as a human race. Toeing the starting line of a marathon, regardless of the language you speak, the God you worship or the color of your skin, we all stand as equal. Perhaps the world would be a better place if more people ran.

  Dean Karnazes

  Running, Struggle, Simple

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• I want to do a movie on sports - like a movie on a racer or a marathon runner - as I feel I'll fit that bill perfectly.

  Bipasha Basu

  Sports, Want, Bills

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• In my bright, utopian future world, they will hand out college educations like cups of water at the end of the L.A. Marathon.

  Henry Rollins

  College, Hands, Water

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• I really do believe that chance favours a prepared mind. Wallace Stegner, who was one of my teachers when I was at Stanford, preached that writing a novel is not something that can be done in a sprint. That it's a marathon. You have to pace yourself. He himself wrote two pages every day and gave himself a day off at Christmas. His argument was at the end of a year, no matter what, you'd got 700 pages and that there's got to be something worth keeping.

  Scott Turow

  Teacher, Believe, Writing

  "'To hell with Perry Mason'". Interview with Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. November 24, 2002.

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• If people were possessed by reason, running marathons would never work. But we are not creatures of reason. We are creatures of passion.

  Noel Carroll

  Running, Passion, People

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• Whatever your body type is, just use it. There are definitely things that I can do that skinnier people can't do. But then there are things that skinnier people do that I'll never be able to do, like run a marathon. There's just no way that will ever happen.

  Amanda Bingson

  Running, People, Body Types

  "Amanda Bingson: 'Athletes come in all shapes and sizes'". Interview with Morty Ain, www.espn.com. July 6, 2015.

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• You work for so long on a graphic novel that it's easy to question your ideas or to burn out on drawing. But you plug away at it and trust in the story you want to tell. It's a marathon, but the finished product is really satisfying.

  Vera Brosgol

  Ideas, Drawing, Long

  "Five questions for Vera Brosgol". Interview with Elissa Gershowitz and Katie Bircher, www.hbook.com. September 12, 2016.

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• Novels are a marathon, while comic scripts are a sprint.

  Duane Swierczynski

  Scripts, Comic, Novel

  "Crime novelist Duane Swierczynski on shedding the Spanx for noir in the new BLACK HOOD #1". Interview with Donna Dickens, uproxx.com. January 28, 2015.

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• I would have conversations with European artists. Meaning, people look at my painting and one person would say, "Oh, your painting is just like so-and-so!" Another person would say, "It's just like so-and-so." But at the end, it's a chain of relay like a marathon. There are so many so-and-so's that eventually it becomes mine. My dialogue was completely European, with the '40s, '50s, '60s artists, but on the exterior side I do big painting. It's post-Pollock. It's current. It's a meeting of the time. The Chinese side just comes out.

  Michael Chow

  Artist, People, Chinese

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I ran the L.A. marathon and really loved the experience. Communal and wild and a gigantic challenge. Finishing that marathon means I can do more than I think. I think.

  Michael Weatherly

  Mean, Thinking, Challenges

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• If you look back at my marathons and ask whether I would swap one of them for my one balls-up, of course I would. But you can't choose. You have to make the best of it on the day.

  Paula Radcliffe

  Balls, Looks, Make The Best Of It

  "Marathon mum" by Duncan Mackay, www.theguardian.com. December 08, 2007.

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• A doable goal for me is to finish a marathon under four hours. I'm doing all the training, but the hardest part is eating right.

  Sean Astin

  Goal, Training, Four

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• The mountains look on Marathon And Marathon looks on the sea; And musing there an hour alone, I dreamed that Greece might still be free.

  Robert Byron

  Sea, Mountain, Looks

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• Yesterday was the New York City Marathon. The marathon was won in record time by a Democrat candidate running away from President Obama.

  Conan O'Brien

  Running, New York, Cities

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• Yesterday was the New York City Marathon. Republicans won in a landslide.

  David Letterman

  New York, Cities, Yesterday

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• We can help the work of justice by preparing for a marathon, not a sprint. A long obedience in the same direction

  Gary Haugen

  Long, Justice, Helping

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• The only way I'll ever run a marathon is if I'm involved in the administration.

  Sally Phillips

  Running, Way, Administration

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• I have not had the chance to go out there and do myself justice in an Olympic marathon yet. I have not been able to get to an Olympic marathon injury-free yet.

  Paula Radcliffe

  Justice, Able, Chance

  "Paula Radcliffe plans to run on past London 2012 Olympics". www.theguardian.com. May 27, 2010.

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• I set myself some specific goals, but the key one is just getting myself into as good a shape as possible for one day this year: the Olympic marathon.

  Paula Radcliffe

  Keys, Years, Goal

  "Olympic Games 2012: loneliness of the long-distance Paula Radcliffe". Interview with Donald McRae, www.theguardian.com. January 16, 2012.

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• To me, drum soloing is like doing a marathon and solving equations at the same time.

  Neil Peart

  Equations

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• Plenty of people who are 38 have run really well in the marathon.

  Paula Radcliffe

  Running, People, Wells

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• If youre a vegan who ran a marathon & got your dogs from a shelter, how do you decide which thing to wedge into the conversation first?

  Ken Jennings

  Dog, Shelter, Firsts

  FaceBook post by Ken Jennings from Apr 19, 2012

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• The gun goes off and everthing changes... the world changes... and nothing else really matters.

  PattiSue Plumer

  Motivational, Running, Gun

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• If you're ninety-five percent of the way to outstanding success, doesn't it make sense to go the additional five percent of the way? ... A marathon which takes hours to run, can be won or lost by a matter of seconds.

  Ralph Marston

  Success, Running, Matter

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• You can run a sprint or your can run a marathon, but you can't sprint a marathon.

  Ryan Holmes

  Running, Sprint

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