Runners Quotes - Page 19

• Most people who do a lot of exercise, particularly in the form of competitive athletics, have unneurotic, extraverted, optimistic personalities to begin with. (Marathon runners are exceptions to this.)

  Robert M. Sapolsky

  Optimistic, Exercise, People

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• Wherever you are, be all there." I have lived the runner, panting ahead in worry, pounding back in regrets, terrified to live in the present, because here-time asks me to do the hardest of all: just open wide and receive.

  Ann Voskamp

  Regret, Worry, Live In The Present

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• With my runners now, they get two month-long breaks during the year.

  Alberto Salazar

  Years, Two, Long

  Interview with Amby Burfoot, www.runnersworld.com. April 8, 2012.

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• Thomas had a depressing - and scary - thought. 'Am I . . . replacing someone? Did somebody get killed?' Minho shook his head. 'No, we're just training you - someone'll want a break. Don't worry, it's been a while since a Runner was killed.' For some reason that last statement worried Thomas, though he hoped it didn't show on his face.

  James Dashner

  Depressing, Worry, Scary

  James Dashner (2014). “The Maze Runner Movie Tie-In Edition (Maze Runner, Book One)”, p.193, Delacorte Press

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• When your eyes are softly focused on the horizon for sustained periods, your brain releases endorphins. It's the same as a runner's high. These days, we spend our lives staring at screens twelve inches in front of us.

  Maria Semple

  Eye, Brain, Horizon

  Maria Semple (2012). “Where'd You Go, Bernadette”, p.228, Hachette UK

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• After watching films of Jim Brown, I noticed that he never ran out of bounds. He always ran North and South and that's what I turned my style into. I was a North and South runner.

  Earl Campbell

  Style, Film, North And South

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• I said, 'If the quarterback is a runner, it'll work.' But if your quarterback's not a runner, in my judgment and in the judgment of most of the people, it wouldn't work without the quarterback running the ball.

  Frank Broyles

  Running, People, Balls

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• Winning times in the New York City Marathon have not dropped all that much over the years, but rather U.S. runners went backward. In 1983, there were 267 U.S. men who broke 2:20 in a marathon, and by 2000 that number was down to 27.

  Alberto Salazar

  New York, Winning, Men

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• I have to say that The Simpsons comes from a huge number of great writers headed by Al Jean, the show-runner, and the work that they do is really fantastic. It's a blast just to sit around with them in the writers' room and listen to all the filthy jokes that will never get on the air.

  Matt Groening

  Air, Numbers, Als

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. April 26, 2006.

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• In a race, the quickest runner can never overtake the slowest, since the pursuer must first reach the point whence the pursued started, so that the slower must always hold a lead.

  Aristotle

  Race, Firsts, Pursued

  Aristotle (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Aristotle (Illustrated)”, p.646, Delphi Classics

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• It's easier to pick off a fast runner than to pick off a lazy runner.

  Vin Scully

  Lazy, Laziness, Easier

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• If I waited to be in the mood to write, I'd barely have a chapbook of material to my name. Who would ever be in the mood to write? Do marathon runners get in the mood to run? Do teachers wake up with the urge to lecture? I don't know, but I doubt it. My guess is that it's the very act that is generative. The doing of the thing that makes possible the desire for it.

  Dani Shapiro

  Running, Teacher, Writing

  Dani Shapiro (2013). “Still Writing: The Perils and Pleasures of a Creative Life”, p.49, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• In racing marathons, one does not see the dropouts make fun of those who continue; failed runners actually cheer on those who continue the race, wishing they were still in it. Not so with the marathon of discipleship in which some dropouts then make fun of the spiritual enterprise of which they were so recently a part!

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Spiritual, Cheer, Fun

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• The so-called new Russian man is characterized mainly by his complete exhaustion. You may find yourself wondering if he has the strength to enjoy his new-found freedom. He is like a long-distance runner who, on reaching the finishing line, is incapable even of raising his hands in a gesture of victory.

  Ryszard Kapuscinski

  Distance, Men, Hands

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• Good try, ya bugging shank. The Gathering elects Runners, and if you think I'm tough, they'd laugh in your face.

  James Dashner

  Thinking, Laughing, Trying

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• The difference between my world record and many world class runners is mental fortitude. I ran believing in mind over matter.

  Derek Clayton

  Believe, Differences, Class

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• When you see runners in town is easy to distinguish beginners from veterans. The ones panting are beginners; the ones with quiet, measured breathing are the veterans. Their hearts, lost in thought, slowly tick away time. When we pass each other on the road, we listen to the rhythm of each other's breathing, and sense the way the other person is ticking away the moments.

  Haruki Murakami

  Heart, Breathing, Way

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• I don't think you can become an outstanding runner unless you get a certain amount of enjoyment out of the suffering. You have to enjoy absorbing it, controlling it, and - ultimately - overcoming it.

  Derek Clayton

  Thinking, Suffering, Overcoming

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• Yeah, we're working on Blade Runner 2 right now - that will happen sooner or later.

  Ridley Scott

  Blade Runner, Blades, Yeah

  "Prometheus 2 Script Is Completed Reveals Ridley Scott" by Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. October 30, 2013.

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• He was highly annoyed by the series of triumphs by the marvelous colored American runner, Jesse Owens. People whose antecedents came from the jungle were primitive, Hitler said with a shrug; their physiques were stronger than those of civilized whites and hence should be excluded from future games.

  Albert Speer

  Games, People, Annoyed

  Albert Speer (1997). “Inside the Third Reich”, p.73, Simon and Schuster

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  I admire runners older than I - they are now my heroes. I want to be like them as I grow older.

  Frank Shorter

  Sports, Hero, Want

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• I just imagine all the other runners are big spiders, and then I get super scared.

  Usain Bolt

  Spiders, Scared, Imagine

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• I got all the respect in the world for the front-runners in this race, but ask yourself: If we replace a Democratic insider with a Republican insider, you think we're really going to change Washington, D.C.? You don't have to settle for Washington and Wall Street insiders who supported the Wall Street bailout and the Obamacare individual mandate.

  Rick Perry

  Wall, Thinking, Race

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• The Greeks had a race in their Olympic games that was unique. The winner was not the runner who finished first. It was the runner who finished with his torch still lit. I want to run all the way with the flame of my torch still lit for Him.

  Joseph Stowell

  Christian, Running, Unique

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• I'm not a natural runner. I'm friends with Ellie Goulding, and she'll be like, 'I've just done a 10K run' and I'm like: 'Why would you do that? How do you just do that?' But I will do that. I will do it.

  Jessie J

  Running, Done, Natural

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

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