Runners Quotes - Page 8

• Man is a distance runner as a consequence of hundreds of thousands of years of chasing antelopes, horses, elephants, wild cattle, and deer.

  Paul Shepard

  Horse, Distance, Men

  Paul Shepard (2011). “The Tender Carnivore and the Sacred Game”, p.114, University of Georgia Press

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• Men ran after and ate horses for four hundred thousand years. The outcome is more than a love of horse flesh; it is a runner's body.

  Paul Shepard

  Horse, Men, Years

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• The beauty of running is its simplicity; the beauty of runners is that we all have a similar drive to improve. We are either trying to run a personal best, or toeing the line for the first time, which will snowball into a future of trying to run personal bests. We road racers are a tight community of mileage-happy, limit-pushing athletes.

  Deena Kastor

  Running, Athlete, Simplicity

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• It's like I'm stuck in a time bubble. Memories keep coming back, and of course, memories are a huge part of literature and cinema, from "Stand by Me" to "Blade Runner."

  Sonia Braga

  Memories, Blade Runner, Stand By Me

  Source: www.rogerebert.com

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• The potential elite runner must realize that hard means hard, easy means easy and they must patiently seek out what combinations work for them. They have to learn to be persistent and patient with their training and racing.

  Frank Shorter

  Sports, Perseverance, Mean

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• I am a lonely runner, but I am a long-distance runner.

  Louise Bourgeois

  Lonely, Distance, Long

  Source: www.procuniarworkshop.com

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• I'm absolutely not an athletic person, but I used to be married to a runner. He would say that, especially in long-distance races, you could tell who was going to win and who wasn't, and if the person was present behind his eyes, if he was looking around and paying attention, you could be pretty sure he wasn't going to win. The person who was tranced out had a much better chance of winning. Because he or she had lost his or her governing self.

  Carolyn See

  Distance, Eye, Winning

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• I think the future stopped looking American when you think back to Blade Runner and Neuromancer, when it started to look more Japanese.

  Iain Banks

  Thinking, Blade Runner, Looks

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• My guess is many top athletes, distance runners included, use performance-enhancing drugs, enough so that the problem must be tackled.

  Bill Rodgers

  Distance, Athlete, Drug

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• We are just not made up to be middle distance runners.

  Alberto Juantorena

  Distance, Middle, Made

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• Considering that the race is star-studded no runner will be willing to set the pace for the others. This is why a record will be almost impossible.

  Haile Gebrselassie

  Stars, Race, Pace

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• I do identify with Olympic athletes quite a lot because they have to push to reach a certain plateau and some of them go on and some of them give up and some art - you know, some people are very talented in art and do a few amazing things and then give it up and go on and do other things, and others are in it for the long haul, more or less long-distance runners.

  Lawrence Jordan

  Art, Giving Up, Distance

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• Let's try to find ten good things to say about Albert Belle:
  10. So far as we know, he's never killed anyone.
  9. He is handsome, and built like a God.
  8. He played every game.
  7. He has never appeared on the Jerry Springer Show.
  6. He was an underrated base runner who was rarely caught stealing.
  5. He hasn't been arrested in several years.
  4. He is very bright.
  3. He works hard.
  2. He has never spoken favorably about Adolf Hitler, Saddam Hussein, or any other foreign madman.
  1. The man could hit.

  Bill James

  Hard Work, Men, Years

  Bill James (2001). “The New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract”

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• Is beer good for runners? Sure...if it's the other guy drinking it.

  Jim Fixx

  Drinking, Beer, Guy

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• By then The Kite Runner had become quite successful and I found myself in a position that I had always dreamed of my whole life, which was to write for a living.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Writing, Successful, Kites

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

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• Running is the classical road to self-consciousn ess, self-awareness and self-reliance. Independence is the outstanding characteristic of a runner. He learns the harsh reality of his physical and spiritual limitations when he runs. He learns that personal commitment, sacrifice and determination are his only means to betterment. Runners get promoted only through self-conquest.

  Noel Coward

  Running, Spiritual, Determination

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• I might respect you as a brilliant intellect, runner, musician or juggler. But respect your BELIEFS? Only if they're supported by evidence.

  Richard Dawkins

  Musician, Might, Belief

  Twitter post from Jun 21, 2014

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• I name (Honus) Wagner first on my list, not only because he was a great batting champion and base-runner, and also baseball's foremost shortstop, but because Honus (Wagner) could have been first at any other position, with the possible exception of pitcher. In all my career, I never saw such a versatile player.

  John McGraw

  Baseball, Player, Names

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• There is a growing subculture of barefoot runners, people who got rid of their shoes. And what they have found uniformly is you get rid of the shoes, you get rid of the stress, you get rid of the injuries and the ailments.

  Christopher McDougall

  Motivation, Stress, Inspiration

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• The fact is, you can't marry the best when you're dating the runner-up. While you're searching for Mr. Right, don't settle for Mr. Right Now.

  Craig Groeschel

  Mr Right, Dating, Facts

  Craig Groeschel (2011). “Love, Sex, and Happily Ever After”, p.93, Multnomah

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• It doesn't matter how fast or how far you're going. If you're putting on your shoes and going out for a run, you are a runner, you are in that club.

  Kara Goucher

  Running, Shoes, Going Out

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• The story line of my novel [The Kite Runner] is largely fictional. The characters were invented and the plot imagined.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Character, Plot, Stories

  "Interview: Khaled Hosseini". Interview with Razeshta Sethna, newslinemagazine.com. November 2003.

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• There [in The Kite Runner] certainly are, as is always the case with fiction, autobiographical elements woven through the narrative.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Woven, Fiction, Elements

  Interview with Razeshta Sethna, newslinemagazine.com. November 2003.

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• The Kite Runner is a story of two boys and a father, and the strange love triangle that binds them.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Father, Boys, Two

  Interview with Razeshta Sethna, newslinemagazine.com. November, 2003.

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• It's always, 'Are you the runner girl?' I say, 'My name is Sally actually.' I used to always get that at school as well, 'Are you the runner girl?' I'm not even the runner girl, I'm a hurdler.

  Sally Pearson

  Girl, School, Names

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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