Runners Quotes - Page 17

• Our own GOP machine, the establishment, they who would assemble the political landscape, they're attacking their own front-runner.

  Sarah Palin

  Political, Machines, Landscape

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Speed is the form of ecstasy the technical revolution has bestowed on man. As opposed to a motorcyclist, the runner is always present in his body, forever required to think about his blisters, his exhaustion; when he runs he feels his weight, his age, more conscious than ever of himself and of his time of life. This all changes when man delegates the faculty of speed to a machine: from then on, his own body is outside the process, and he gives over to a speed that is noncorporeal, nonmaterial, pure speed, speed itself, ecstasy speed.

  Milan Kundera

  Running, Men, Thinking

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• You really can't say enough about 'Blade Runner.' For that movie to have such a long life - you can't describe what a beautiful feeling that is. Initially, the movie was out of theaters in something like two weeks. But the people that wanted it back - the fans - they really saved it.

  Rutger Hauer

  Beautiful, Two, Long

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• Karpov, Kasparov, Korchnoi have absolutely destroyed chess by their immoral, unethical, prearranged games. These guys are really the lowest dogs around, and if people knew the truth about them, they would be held in more contempt than Ben Johnson, the runner, and they're going to know the truth when I do this book!

  Bobby Fischer

  Dog, Book, Games

  Bobby Fischer's remarks at the press conference, September 1, 1992.

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• No one knows the fear in a front runner's mind more than me. When you set off at a cracking pace for four or five laps and find that your main rivals are still breathing down your neck, that's when you start to panic.

  Ron Clarke

  Running, Breathing, Mind

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• Runners...you're competitive, but you want to have fun, too. You want to enjoy life. And runners really get to do that, I think-after we recover.

  Bill Rodgers

  Running, Fun, Thinking

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• When the meal was over we all had a quiet rest in our rooms and I meditated on the race. This is the time when an athlete feels all alone in the big world. Opponents assume tremendous stature. Any runner who denies having fears, nerves or some kind of disposition is a bad athlete, or a liar.

  Gordon Pirie

  Running, Liars, Athlete

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• When I came to New York in 1978, I was a full-time school teacher and track runner, and determined to retire from competitive running. But winning the New York City Marathon kept me running for another decade.

  Grete Waitz

  Running, Teacher, New York

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• Back in the 1970s, I ate a high-protein diet to get bigger and stronger. As a senior at Utah State, I weighed 218 pounds with eight percent body fat, and threw the discus over 190 feet. Then I got some advice from the people at the Olympic Training Center. I needed carbs, they advised, and lots of them. They pointed to studies done on the American distance runners. Being an idiot, I took the advice to eat like emaciated, over-trained sub-performers. It took years of high carbohydrate grazing to learn the evils of this advice.

  Dan John

  Senior, Workout, Distance

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• Some might say that it's easier to be the runner than the runner's family.

  Robert de Castella

  Running, Might, Easier

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• One time I snuck a ball on with me and when I went to winding up, I threw one of them balls to first and one to second. I was so smooth I picked off both runners and fanned the batter without that ump or the other team even knowing it.

  Satchel Paige

  Baseball, Team, Knowing

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• Fossil bones and footsteps and ruined homes are the solid facts of history, but the surest hints, the most enduring signs, lie in those miniscule genes. For a moment we protect them with our lives, then like relay runners with a baton, we pass them on to be carried by our descendents. There is a poetry in genetics which is more difficult to discern in broken bomes, and genes are the only unbroken living thread that weaves back and forth through all those boneyards.

  Jonathan Kingdon

  Lying, Home, Science

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• I am not anti-gun. I'm pro-knife. Consider the merits of the knife. In the first place, you have to catch up with someone in order to stab him. A general substitution of knives for guns would promote physical fitness. We'd turn into a whole nation of great runners. Plus, knives don't ricochet. And people are seldom killed while cleaning their knives.

  Molly Ivins

  Gun, Order, Knives

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• People were actually approaching me on the street and thinking that I was an athlete. They couldn't quite place it, but a runner, or swimmer or something.

  Kristanna Loken

  Athlete, Thinking, People

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• There is no bad weather, just soft runners.

  Bill Bowerman

  Running, Weather, Bad Weather

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• A runner doesn't just show up and win a race. He trains long and hard. Do you just show up every day and hope to win?

  Robin Sharma

  Leadership, Winning, Race

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• The reality is you don't get stand offs who are expert kickers as well as top drawer runners. The trick is to find a balance but Phil is putting a lot of guys into gaps.

  Frank Hadden

  Reality, Guy, Balance

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• People would say I'm more polished as a passer than Tebow and Cam, but I'm not as physical a runner. But I am 6'2, 223, and I can throw with the best of them.

  Robert Griffin III

  People, Tebow, Polished

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• Who would you vote most likely to succeed? Bob Arum - White, Jewish, a graduate of Harvard, a Kennady Raider, United States Attorney. Don King - black, poor, out of the hard core getto of Cleveland, Ohio, numbers runner, a little confectionary dealer, ex-convict. Now who would you vote to succeed? It would be hands down........ Yet in this great land called America, I have out performed, outachieved, been more recognizable, did more, broke more records, and had more of a phenominal career, where Arum can't tie my shoe string. You understand?

  Don King

  Kings, Careers, Shoes

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• Every runner has a little crazy in ‘em. It’s a good thing.

  Andrew Wheating

  Crazy, Ems, Littles

  Twitter post from May 24, 2013

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• ‘Blade Runner’ is such a unique film. How do you describe a diamond? I don’t think you should ever touch it again.

  Rutger Hauer

  Unique, Thinking, Blade Runner

  "Rutger Hauer: Only Christopher Nolan should make new ‘Blade Runner’ film". Interview with Rebecca Keegan, herocomplex.latimes.com. April 1, 2011.

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• I don’t want to get too detailed into it, but when you’re a good high school running back, you can almost be whatever type of runner you want to be. If you’re a good size and a good athlete, you can be whatever type of runner you want.

  Barry Sanders

  Running, Athlete, School

  "Barry Sanders talks 'NCAA 13' cover". Interview with Jon Robinson, www.espn.com. April 17, 2012.

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• All runners are tough. Everyone has to have a little fire in them, that even in tough times, can’t be turned off.

  Shalane Flanagan

  Fire, Tough Times, Littles

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• I was a runner, a failed quarterback, third-string quarterback, but in track I was a 2-miler.

  Bob Seger

  Track, Strings, Quarterback

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• We've got to be long distance runners on the spiritual path. We want to run as fast as we can, but at the same time realize that if God isn't at the end of that 100 yards, we don't fall flat of exhaustion. We've got to have whatever rhythm it takes to be able to go on for incarnations until we find that state of perfection we've been seeking.

  Goswami Kriyananda

  Happiness, Running, Spiritual

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