Runners Quotes - Page 24

• Running has taken me in, and continues to comfort, heal and challenge me in all kinds of magical ways. I am not a 'good runner' because I am me. I am a good 'me' because I am a runner.

  Kristin Armstrong

  Running, Taken, Challenges

  Kristin Armstrong (2011). “Mile Markers: The 26.2 Most Important Reasons Why Women Run”, p.3, Rodale

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• When you run the marathon, you run against the distance, not against the other runners and not against the time.

  Haile Gebrselassie

  Running, Distance, Half Marathons

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• He was not a runner, my father, but he was quick. I always remember it was very difficult to escape from him when he was angry. If he wanted to beat us he would always catch us. Even me, he could always catch me.

  Haile Gebrselassie

  Father, Remember, Beats

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• Tears streamed down my face as I crossed the finish line. I was a new person, a runner.

  Thomas King

  Running, Racing, Tears

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• When I was a kid, I thought I was the strongest man in the world. Then, the fastest runner and then the smartest person in the world. One by one my delusions got shut down. Now I just see myself as the lamest guy in the world.

  Jack Black

  Kids, Men, Guy

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

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• The base paths belonged to me, the runner. The rules gave me the right. I always went into a bag full speed, feet first. I had sharp spikes on my shoes. If the baseman stood where he had no business to be and got hurt, that was his fault.

  Ty Cobb

  Baseball, Hurt, Business

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It takes patience to become the best runner you can be. Top athletes realize that running is a long-term sport. It is set up for people who value delayed gratification and who like hard-earned success.

  Anthony Famiglietti

  Sports, Running, Athlete

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• A novel takes the courage of a marathon runner, and as long as you have to run, you might as well be a winning marathon runner. Serendipity and blind faith faith in yourself won't hurt a thing. All the bastards in the world will snicker and sneer because they haven't the talent to zip up their flies by themselves. To hell with them, particularly the critics. Stand in there, son, no matter how badly you are battered and hurt.

  Leon Uris

  Running, Hurt, Son

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• Overtraining is the biggest problem incurred by runners who lack the experience or discipline to cope with their own enthusiasm.

  Marty Liquori

  Discipline, Enthusiasm, Problem

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• Joy is the best makeup. But a little lipstick is a close runner-up.

  Anne Lamott

  Makeup, Joy, Littles

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• I always tell beginning runners: Train your brain first. It's much more important than your heart or legs.

  Amby Burfoot

  Sports, Running, Heart

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• And when those bombs went off, there were runners who, after finishing a marathon, kept running for another two miles to the hospital to donate blood. So, here's what I know - these maniacs may have tried to make life bad for the people of Boston, but all they can ever do, is show just how good those people are.

  Stephen Colbert

  Running, Boston, Blood

  "Stephen Colbert, Jon Stewart salute Boston, mock 'maniacs'" by Ree Hines, www.today.com. April 17, 2013.

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• The hardest step for a runner to take is the first one out the door.

  Ron Clarke

  Doors, Firsts, Steps

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• Long-distance runners have to be very strange people. You have to really want to do it. You don't have to win or beat someone, you just have to get through the thing. That's the sense of victory. The sense of self-worth.

  Ted Corbitt

  Distance, Self Worth, Winning

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• We're not home-and-hearth people. We're the adventurers, the buccaneers, the blockade runners. Without challenge, we're only alive.

  Alexander Eliot

  Home, Adventure, People

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• The true but rare runner's high is a zone that we enter when everything seems to click perfectly, when time stands still, and when we can run almost without effort.

  Amby Burfoot

  Running, Effort, Clicks

  Amby Burfoot (2000). “The Runner's Guide to the Meaning of Life: What 35 Years of Running Have Taught Me About Winning, Losing, Happiness, Humility, and the Human Heart”, p.80, Rodale

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• Being a lifelong runner, knowing what running gives me, a variety of factors - that is what motivates me.

  Bill Rodgers

  Running, Knowing, Giving

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• A runner is real when she takes the first step.

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes

  Running, Real, Firsts

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• If you die, I will bury you in the sandhills with all the other runners.

  Percy Cerutty

  Training, Ifs, Dies

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• In a long distance race, everyone gets tired. The winner is the runner who figures out where to put the tired, figures out how to store it away until after the race is over. Sure, he's tired. Everyone is. That's not the point. The point is to run.

  Seth Godin

  Running, Distance, Tired

  "Fear of shipping". sethgodin.typepad.com. June 11, 2010.

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• In war there is no second prize for the runner-up.

  Omar N. Bradley

  Peace, Military, War

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• It's better to have ten disorganized players than ten organized runners.

  Roberto Baggio

  Soccer, Sports, Football

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• You have to bear in mind that Mr. Autry's favorite horse was named Champion. He ain't ever had one called Runner Up.

  Gene Mauch

  Horse, Champion, Mind

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• The toughest question has always been, "How do you get your ideas?" How do you answer that? It's like asking runners how they run, or singers how they sing. They just do it!

  Lynn Johnston

  Running, Ideas, Singers

  Lynn Johnston (1994). “It's the Thought That Counts:: A For Better Or For Worse Fifteenth Anniversary Collection”, p.5, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• With school turning out more runners, jumpers, racers, tinkerers, grabbers, snatchers, fliers, and swimmers instead of examiners, critics, knowers, and imaginative creators, the word 'intellectual,' of course, became the swear word it deserved to be.

  Ray Bradbury

  School, Intellectual, Swimmer

  Ray Bradbury (2012). “Fahrenheit 451: A Novel”, p.55, Simon and Schuster

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