Runners Quotes - Page 13

• Having waited my entire life to get an award for something, anything...I now get awards all the time for being mentally ill. It’s better than being bad at being insane, right? How tragic would it be to be runner-up for Bipolar Woman of the Year?

  Carrie Fisher

  Awards, Years, Bipolar

  "Wishful Drinking like". Book by Carrie Fisher, December 2, 2008.

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• Sooner or later even the fastest runners have to stand and fight.

  Stephen King

  Courage, Inspiration, Fighting

  Stephen King (2008). “Just After Sunset: Stories”, p.531, Simon and Schuster

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• We've forgotten much. How to struggle, how to rise to dizzy heights and sink to unparalleled depths. We no longer aspire to anything. Even the finer shades of despair are lost to us. We've ceased to be runners. We plod from structure to conveyance to employment and back again. We live within the boundaries that science has determined for us. The measuring stick is short and sweet. The full gamut of life is a brief, shadowy continuum that runs from gray to more gray. The rainbow is bleached. We hardly know how to doubt anymore. (“The Thing”)

  Richard Matheson

  Running, Sweet, Struggle

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• I testify that no one of us is less treasured or cherished of God than another. I testify that He loves each of us—insecurities, anxieties, self-image, and all. He doesn’t measure our talents or our looks; He doesn’t measure our professions or our possessions. He cheers on every runner, calling out that the race is against sin, not against each other.

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  Cheer, Race, Self

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• He wanted to impart some of the truths Bruce Denton had taught him, that you dont' become a runner by winning a morning workout. The only true way is to marshal the ferocity of your ambition over the course of many days, weeks, months, and (if you could finally come to accept it) years. The Trial of Miles; Miles of Trials. How could he make them understand?

  John L. Parker Jr.

  Running, Workout, Morning

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• For me, running is both exercise and a metaphor. Running day after day, piling up the races, bit by bit I raise the bar, and by clearing each level I elevate myself. At least that’s why I’ve put in the effort day after day: to raise my own level. I’m no great runner, by any means. I’m at an ordinary – or perhaps more like mediocre – level. But that’s not the point. The point is whether or not I improved over yesterday. In long-distance running the only opponent you have to beat is yourself, the way you used to be.

  Haruki Murakami

  Running, Distance, Mean

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Jun 03, 2015

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• And if any of you want some tips on running, don't be in a hurry, and never let any of the other runners know you are in a hurry even if you are. You can always overtake on long-distance running without letting others smell the hurry in you.

  Colin S. Smith

  Running, Distance, Smell

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• Thomas swallowed, wondering how he could ever go out there. His desire to become a Runner had taken a major blow. But he had to do it. Somehow he KNEW he had to do it. It was such an odd thing to feel, especially after what he'd just seen... Thomas knew he was a smart kid- he somehow felt it in his bones. But nothing about this place made any sense. Except for one thing. He was supposed to be a Runner. Why did he feel that so strongly? And even now, after seeing what lived in the maze?

  James Dashner

  Smart, Taken, Kids

  James Dashner (2009). “The Maze Runner (Maze Runner, Book One): Book One”, p.39, Delacorte Press

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• I may never be happy, but tonight I am content. Nothing more than an empty house, the warm hazy weariness from a day spent setting strawberry runners in the sun, a glass of cool sweet milk, and a shallow dish of blueberries bathed in cream. When one is so tired at the end of a day one must sleep, and at the next dawn there are more strawberry runners to set, and so one goes on living, near the earth. At times like this I'd call myself a fool to ask for more.

  Sylvia Plath

  Happiness, Sweet, Tired

  Sylvia Plath (2013). “The Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.3, Anchor

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• The true runner is a very fortunate person. He has found something in him that is just perfect.

  George A. Sheehan

  Running, Perfect, Found

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• Being a runner, professional or recreational, means that you are part of a community that stretches across the globe.

  Lanni Marchant

  Athlete, Mean, Community

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• It's the one thing that's mine. My runs everyday aremy thing. It's my therapy, my hour to myself. Nobody can really take it away from me... It's such a huge part of me. I love to say that I'm a runner.

  Summer Sanders

  Running, Everyday, Hours

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• It's probably the toughest distance race in the world to win. World class runners from 1500m to the marathon contest it and instead of just three runners from each country, like in the Olympics or World Championships, in the senior men's race there are nine.

  Paul Tergat

  Senior, Running, Country

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• Prior to the 1976 Olympics, I was a 5,000m runner.

  Don Kardong

  Olympics

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• I know runners who have suffered a tick bite and ended up with Lyme disease. Ill take an angry moose any day.

  Don Kardong

  Moose, Disease, Tick

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• The injured runner is like a recent amputee victim, continually forgetting that the limb isn't there, crestfallen at each realization. What we need more than anything is a suitable prosthetic and an attitude adjustment.

  Lauren Fleshman

  Attitude, Amputees, Needs

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• I think we do want a front-runner from the Republican Party who can win the general election.

  Pat Robertson

  Party, Thinking, Winning

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• to maintain success, stamina is more important than talent. You have to learn to be a marathon runner.

  Joan Rivers

  Success, Perseverance, Important

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• Runners are competitive folks. I think some might feel slighted they haven't got more recognition. I think they have a point. In running, you won't necessarily get noticed just for turning in good performances.

  Dean Karnazes

  Running, Thinking, Might

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• Arnold is now the front runner. Everyone was snickering about it a month ago, now it looks like he will be the next governor of California. He is so confident he has already chosen a body oil for the inauguration.

  David Letterman

  Oil, California, Next

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• I became a great runner because if you're a kid in Leeds and your name is Sebastian you've got to become a great runner.

  Sebastian Coe

  Running, Kids, Names

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• Especially with sports cars, when you have got so many cars on the track with various degrees of competitiveness, then something will happen. It's the nature of racing, the law of averages. If you want to be a front-runner then you are going to have to push very hard, and collisions can happen.

  Allan McNish

  Sports, Average, Law

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• Life is a dream in the night, a fear among fears, A naked runner lost in a storm of spears.

  Arthur Symons

  Life, Dream, Night

  Arthur Symons, Roger Holdsworth (2003). “Arthur Symons: Selected Writings”, p.57, Psychology Press

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• School cross country runs started because the rugby pitches were flooded. There was an alternative: extra studying. This meant there were plenty of runners on sports afternoons.

  Gordon Pirie

  Sports, Running, Country

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• Independence is the outstanding characteristic of the runner.

  Noel Carroll

  Sports, Running, Independence

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