Running Quotes - Page 11

• After I left the podium in Atlanta, I felt so fulfilled in my career that I lost my desire to compete at that level again.

  Carl Lewis

  Atlanta, Careers, Desire

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• It is suicidal for other runners to copy my hill sessions without adequate background.

  Pekka Vasala

  Suicidal, Adequate, Hills

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• It was a very strange, disappointing race in that no one wanted to take it out. That's why I took the lead. I wanted some people to run the real distance and that was frustrating. So I took the pace around the second lap, which in some ways is suicidal...but I wanted the pace to be honest.

  Marla Runyan

  Real, Distance, Suicidal

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• I wanted to run my race. I didn't want to sit there and play games and see who could kick the hardest. I wanted it to be a race.

  Marla Runyan

  Race, Games, Play

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• I made the school team, and when I won in a match against another school it was the greatest moment of my life even greater than the European titles. In those school races, I always ran my legs off. There were girls watching and I wanted to impress them. I was foaming and vomiting, but I won

  Juha Vaatainen

  Girl, Team, School

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• You make it all sound so simple. Run your guts out...collapse at the finish, throw up, that makes a good runner. Sounds like you regret not being more like Prefontaine....Everyone gripes to me that American marathoners are 'lazy-no-good-for-nothings'. My point is, many people have criticisms, but few have valid answers. I'd like to know what happened to the guys that kicked my ass in high school.

  Keith Brantly

  Regret, School, Simple

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• A miler's kick does the trick...A miler's kick does the trick.

  Rod Dixon

  Doe, Tricks, Kicks

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• I have never been a killer. I'm not an aggressive personality and if I can remember any emotion I felt during a race it was fear. The greatest stimulator of my running was fear.

  Herb Elliott

  Race, Personality, Killers

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• It all goes so fast, and character makes the difference when it's close

  Jesse Owens

  Sports, Athlete, Character

  Jesse Owens, Paul G. Neimark (1978). “Jesse, a spiritual autobiography”

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• I wanted no part of politics. And I wasn't in Berlin to compete against any one athlete. The purpose of the Olympics, anyway, was to do your best. As I'd learned long ago from Charles Riley, the only victory that counts is the one over yourself.

  Jesse Owens

  Athlete, Long Ago, Over You

  Jesse Owens, Paul G. Neimark (1978). “Jesse, a spiritual autobiography”

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• Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "From Telegraph to Light Bulb with Thomas Edison". Book by Deborah Headstrom-Page, 2007.

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• Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  "Perfectionism: What's Bad About Being Too Good". Book by Miriam Adderholdt and Jan Goldberg, 1987.

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• Running is about finding your inner peace, and so is a life well lived.

  Dean Karnazes

  Inner Peace, Life Well Lived, Wells

  Dean Karnazes (2006). “Ultramarathon Man: Confessions of an All-Night Runner”, p.31, Penguin

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• Sometimes a slight pace change is all you need to snap out of a mental or pyhsical funk.

  Mark Plaatjes

  Needs, Pace, Sometimes

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• I ran for myself, not Finland.

  Paavo Nurmi

  Finland, Ran

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• I love controlling a race, chewing up an opponent. Let's get down and dirty. Let's fight it out. It's raw, animalistic, with no one to rely on but yourself. There's no better feeling than that.

  Adam Goucher

  Dirty, Fighting, Race

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• The decathlon is nine Mickey Mouse events and the 1500 metres.

  Steve Ovett

  Inspirational, Funny, Events

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• To move into the lead means making an act requiring fierceness and confidence. But fear must play some part...no relaxation is possible, and all discretion is thrown into the wind.

  Roger Bannister

  Moving, Mean, Wind

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• I believe in the runner's high, and I believe that those who are passionate about running are the ones who experience it to the fullest degree possible. To me, the runner's high is a sensational reaction to a great run! It's an exhilarating feeling of satisfaction and achievement. It's like being on top of the world, and truthfully... there's nothing else quite like it!

  Sasha Azevedo

  Believe, Exhilarating Feeling, Achievement

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• That was the real secret of the Tarahumara: they'd never forgotten what it felt like to love running. They remembered that running was mankind's first fine art, our original act of inspired creation. Way before we were scratching pictures on caves or beating rhythms on hollow trees, we were perfecting the art of combining our breath and mind and muscles into fluid self-propulsion over wild terrain. And when our ancestors finally did make their first cave paintings, what were the first designs? A downward slash, lightning bolts through the bottom and middle-behold, the Running Man.

  Christopher McDougall

  Art, Real, Men

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• 'I don't get it,' Caroline said, bemused. 'She's the only one with wings. Why is that?'

  Sarah Dessen

  Wings, Said

  Sarah Dessen (2006). “The Truth About Forever”, p.261, Penguin

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• It's elevating and humbling at the same time. Running along a beach at sunrise with no other footprints in the sand, you realize the vastness of creation, your own insignificant space in the plan, how tiny you really are, your own creatureliness and how much you owe to the supreme body, the God that brought all this beauty and harmony into being.

  Marion Irvine

  Motivational, Beach, Athlete

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• Some think guts is sprinting at the end of a race. But guts is what got you there to begin with. Guts start back in the hills with 6 miles to go and you're thinking of how you can get out of this race without anyone noticing. Guts begin when you still have forty minutes of torture left and you're already hurting more than you ever remember.

  George A. Sheehan

  Hurt, Thinking, Race

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• There is something magical about running; after a certain distance, it transcends the body. Then a bit further, it transcends the mind. A bit further yet, and what you have before you, laid bare, is the soul.

  Kristin Armstrong

  Distance, Soul, Mind

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• The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Coaching

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