Runners Quotes - Page 12

• Several of my critics have said, 'Bowerman just tacks up a piece of paper in the locker room and turns his runners loose.' They're partially right. I do give the athletes a relatively free rein and for good reason. One of my principles is? 'Don't overcoach.'

  Bill Bowerman

  Running, Athlete, Giving

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• My parents had irrational fears of Mexico and assumed that once you crossed the border, drug runners made you swallow a heroin balloon and then within the hour you were in a bathtub full of ice and they were harvesting your kidneys.

  Justin Halpern

  Ice, Parent, Drug

  Justin Halpern (2010). “Shit My Dad Says”, p.111, Pan Macmillan

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• You make it all sound so simple. Run your guts out...collapse at the finish, throw up, that makes a good runner. Sounds like you regret not being more like Prefontaine....Everyone gripes to me that American marathoners are 'lazy-no-good-for-nothings'. My point is, many people have criticisms, but few have valid answers. I'd like to know what happened to the guys that kicked my ass in high school.

  Keith Brantly

  Running, Regret, School

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• Long slow distance makes long slow runners.

  Jim Bush

  Running, Distance, Long

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• I don't think I would have been such a good runner if I hadn't enjoyed it.

  Grete Waitz

  Running, Thinking, Enjoyed

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• In addition to the well-known benefits of health and well-being derived from exercise, there are other unique advantages to being a runner. You are more attuned to not only your body but also the world around you. The outdoor life you lead as a runner gives you a special relationship with your surroundings: nature, the climate, the seasons. As you depend on these things to accommodate your activity, you grow to understand and appreciate them.

  Grete Waitz

  Inspirational, Exercise, Unique

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• Let's face it: I am not a professional runner.

  Jo Brand

  Faces

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• The one thing that I really appreciate about being a runner is the incredible friendships and camaraderie that we, as runners, share. Although it will always be a cutthroat competition for every spot on every team, our companionship transcends these competitive rivalries.

  Jennifer Rhines

  Running, Team, Appreciate

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• Light is everything in the world to men's eyes Light thirsts after light yes, the soul, twin to the stars moves through space to find, be made eternal by light and grasp, trembling, the sun a torch handed on from runner to runner through the millennia.

  Gunvor Hofmo

  Stars, Moving, Eye

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• In just the same way the thousands of successive positions of a runner are contracted into one sole symbolic attitude, which our eye perceives, which art reproduces, and which becomes for everyone the image of a man who runs.

  Henri Bergson

  Running, Art, Attitude

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• Life's not linear at all. It happens in lighting flashes. So fast you don't see those lay-you-out cold moments coming at you until you're Wile E. Coyote, steamrolled flat as a pancake by the Road Runner, victim of your own elaborate schemes.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Pancakes, Coyotes, Cold

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• As runners we all have the same challenges and share the same experience, with the goal to accomplish something and better ourselves.

  Wilson Chebet

  Athlete, Goal, Challenges

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• Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional. Say you’re running and you think, ‘Man, this hurts, I can’t take it anymore. The ‘hurt’ part is an unavoidable reality, but whether or not you can stand anymore is up to the runner himself.

  Haruki Murakami

  Running, Hurt, Pain

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Sep 10, 2014

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• I am a runner. That's what I do. That's who I am. Running is all I know, or want, or care about.

  Wendelin Van Draanen

  Running, Who I Am, Care

  Wendelin Van Draanen (2011). “The Running Dream”, p.6, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• What happened to the winner" Adina asked. "She tripped." "And the first runner-up?" Miss Michigan cracked her knuckles. "She tripped, too.

  Libba Bray

  Missing, Michigan, Knuckles

  Libba Bray (2011). “Beauty Queens”, p.60, Scholastic Inc.

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• There is a unique energy surrounding the Boston Marathon that you can't help but feel. It includes every runner and every person along the course. It brings every person there together as one.

  Amy Hastings

  Athlete, Unique, Boston

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• The Marathon distance is very difficult to cover and without the support of all of the fans and people cheering us on and the other runners, we would have a very difficult time to run the full race. So we work together to make a marathon happen.

  Tilahun Regassa

  Running, Cheer, Distance

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• The advice I have for beginners is the same philosophy that I have for runners of all levels of experience and ability -- consistency, a sane approach, moderation and making your running an enjoyable, rather than dreaded, part of your life.

  Bill Rodgers

  Running, Philosophy, Advice

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• I couldn't disappoint people. I did not want to fail and exhaust myself, because I was the kind of runner who trained so little that I couldn't race again within another 10 days.

  Roger Bannister

  Sports, Athlete, Race

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• It's a treat being a runner, out in the world by yourself with not a soul to make you bad-tempered or tell you what to do.

  Alan Sillitoe

  Running, Soul, World

  Alan Sillitoe (2016). “New and Collected Stories”, p.8, Open Road Media

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• High culture is nothing but a child of that European perversion called history, the obsession we have with going forward, with considering the sequence of generations a relay race in which everyone surpasses his predecessor, only to be surpassed by his successor. Without this relay race called history there would be no European art and what characterizes it: a longing for originality, a longing for change. Robespierre, Napoleon, Beethoven, Stalin, Picasso, they're all runners in the relay race, they all belong to the same stadium.

  Milan Kundera

  Art, Children, Race

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• Running is not, as it so often seems, only about what you did in your last race or about how many miles you ran last week. It is, in a much more important way, about community, about appreciating all the miles run by other runners, too.

  Richard O'Brien

  Running, Race, Appreciate

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• For every runner who tours the world running marathons, there are thousands who run to hear leaves and listen to rain and look to the day when it all is suddenly as easy as a bird in flight.

  George A. Sheehan

  Running, Rain, Bird

  "Dr. George Sheehan on getting fit & feeling great".

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• You belong with me, Scarlett, haven't you figured that out? And the world is where we belong, all of it. We're not home-and-hearth people. We're the adventurers, the buccaneers, the blockade runners. Without challenge, we're only half alive. We can go anywhere, and as long as we're together, it will belong to us. But, my pet, we'll never belong to it. That's for other people, not for us.

  Alexandra Ripley

  Home, Long, People

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• Nearly all runners do their slow runs too fast, and their fast runs too slow." Ken Mierke says. "So they're just training their bodies to burn sugar, which is the last thing a distance runner wants. You've got enough fat stored to run to California, so the more you train your body to burn fat instead of sugar, the longer your limited sugar tank is going to last." -The way to activate your fat-burning furnace is by staying below your aerobic threshold--your hard-breathing point--during your endurance runs.

  Christopher McDougall

  Running, Distance, California

  Christopher McDougall (2010). “Born to Run: The hidden tribe, the ultra-runners, and the greatest race the world has never seen”, p.207, Profile Books

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