Runners Quotes - Page 6

• I have to change a lot of things before I become a good marathon runner.

  Haile Gebrselassie

  Things Change, Marathon, Marathon Runners

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• It is a paradox to say the human body has no 'limit.' There must be a limit to the speed at which men can run. I feel this may be around 3:30 for the mile. However, another paradox remains - if an athlete manages to run 3:30, another runner could be found to marginally improve on that time.

  Roger Bannister

  Running, Athlete, Men

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• People sometimes sneer at those who run every day, claiming they'll go to any length to live longer. But don't think that's the reason most people run. Most runners run not because they want to live longer, but because they want to live life to the fullest.

  Haruki Murakami

  Running, Live Life, Thinking

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• I still bother with runners I call hamburgers. They're never going to run any record times. But they can fulfill their own potential.

  Bill Bowerman

  Sports, Running, Hockey

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• There is magic in misery. Just ask any runner.

  Dean Karnazes

  Running, Magic, Misery

  Dean Karnazes (2006). “Ultramarathon Man: Confessions of an All-Night Runner”, p.148, Penguin

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• I've always felt that long, slow distance produces long, slow runners.

  Sebastian Coe

  Inspirational, Motivational, Running

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• Finland has produced so many brilliant distance runners because back home it costs $2.50 a gallon for gas.

  Esa Tikkanen

  Inspirational, Funny, Running

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• I was born to be a runner. I simply love to run. It's almost like the faster I go, the easier it becomes.

  Mary Decker

  Running, Simply Love, Born To Run

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• I'm a working mom, not a professional athlete, but I am a runner and that's a special club.

  Alison Sweeney

  Mom, Athlete, Special

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• I felt really comfortable [on The Maze Runner]. From day one, I loved the script and the story, and I thought it could be something really cool and interesting and original, in this generation of regurgitated projects and sequels and stuff, so I'm proud to be part of it.

  Dylan O'Brien

  Interesting, Mazes, This Generation

  Source: www.flickeringmyth.com

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• Not all the Greek runners in the original Olympics were totally naked. Some wore shoes.

  Mark Twain

  Shoes, Greek, Naked

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• When I was a runner and competing in triathlons I was having pains in my hip and just treating it as an injury. I would ice it and take anti-inflammatories, but it just wouldn't go away. I finally went into my doctor and we did x-rays and had an MRI and diagnosed it as osteoarthritis. At that point I stopped doing anything that was impactful to my hip joints.

  Kristin Armstrong

  Pain, Doctors, Ice

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• US Cycling is doing a lot now with camps in different towns or different regions, but I think a great place, and I'm not sure how much it's been hit, is camps for people that are involved in other sports. Why not put on camps for high school kids that are cross-country runners, because those are the some of the best cyclists.

  Kristin Armstrong

  Sports, Country, School

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• I don't see how being a faster runner, or a better mathematician makes you 'deserve' access to a better life, or more influence on policy, in the absence of a social decision to play that game in the way it's proposed to be organised for some set of benefits.

  Catherine Wilson

  Games, Play, Decision

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Everyone was so good at what they were doing, and what they were bringing onto the table, that I was confident. I guess I was just trying to keep up, really, that was my hope at the end of the day; that I could do them justice and do the story [Maze Runner] justice and do Wes [Ball] justice.

  Dylan O'Brien

  Justice, The End Of The Day, Trying

  Source: www.flickeringmyth.com

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• It's interesting to play that [ Thomas in The Maze Runner], actually. The audience gets to see the character discover who he is, things that he never even knew about himself. I love that Thomas starts out as the newbie, as the 'Greenie', and the audience kind of experiences that through his perspective. It's really cool to watch him discover these leadership qualities that he has, and the way you approach it... I guess, just honestly. As honest as you can, really.

  Dylan O'Brien

  Character, Play, Interesting

  Source: www.flickeringmyth.com

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• People have assumed that I have to run the ball before I can throw it most all of my career, all the way back before high school. It's a stereotype put on me for a long time because I'm African-American and I'm a dual-threat quarterback. I don't know why that stereotype is still around. It's about talent and the ability to throw the ball, not the color of your skin or your ability to also be a dangerous runner.

  Deshaun Watson

  Running, School, Color

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• In the Seventies, women runners, developing amenorrhea and calcium-related shin splints, were the first to realize that nature is hovering over us, ready to shut down our systems if our fetus-feeding fat reserve drops below a certain percentage of body weight. In other words, in nature's eyes we are nothing but milk sacs and fat deposits.

  Camille Paglia

  Eye, Body Weight, Fetus

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Vamps & Tramps: New Essays”, p.41, Vintage

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• My thoughts and prayers go out to the thousands of marathon runners, onlookers, city officials and others affected by this senseless tragedy.

  Ed Markey

  Prayer, Cities, Tragedy

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• I would like to see a fierce Fantasia mixed with Blade Runner, Lord of the Rings, and Star Wars all in one. That's the kind of movies I want to make.

  Michelle Rodriguez

  Stars, War, Blade Runner

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• Well, fortunately we found out that the runner-up our particular year was going to get a record contract also. So it was kind of a - it was bitter sweet but it was an opportunity.

  Clay Aiken

  Sweet, Opportunity, Years

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• Though The Kite Runner was my first completed novel, I had been writing on and off for most of my life, primarily short stories, and primarily for myself.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Writing, Stories, Kites

  "GeekDad Interview: Khaled Hosseini, Author of The Kite Runner". Interview with Tony Sims, www.wired.com. September 30, 2011.

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• I said last week that the number on Jean's back does not matter. He stays effective as a runner, decision-maker and leader.

  Allister Coetzee

  Numbers, Decision, Leader

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• In March of 2001, I revisited the short story, and found that thought it did not work well as a short story, it might work much better as a longer one. The novel [The Kite Runner] came about as an expansion of that original, unpublished short story.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Expansion, Stories, Kites

  "GeekDad Interview: Khaled Hosseini, Author of The Kite Runner". Interview with Tony Sims, www.wired.com. September 30, 2011.

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• The novel [The Kite Runner] came about as an expansion of that original, unpublished short story.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Expansion, Stories, Kites

  "Geekdad Interview: Khaled Hosseini, Author of the Kite Runner". Interview with Tony Sims, www.wired.com.

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