Running Quotes - Page 3

• A runner must run with dreams in his heart.

  Emil Zatopek

  Fitness, Dream, Heart

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• We run, not because we think it is doing us good, but because we enjoy it and cannot help ourselves...The more restricted our society and work become, the more necessary it will be to find some outlet for this craving for freedom. No one can say, 'You must not run faster than this, or jump higher than that.' The human spirit is indomitable.

  Roger Bannister

  Motivational, Sports, Freedom

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• Some seek the comfort of their therapist's office, other head to the corner pub and dive into a pint, but I chose running as my therapy.

  Dean Karnazes

  Sports, Office, Comfort

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• A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.

  John Burroughs

  Inspirational, Positive, Morning

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• Some runners judge performance by whether they won or lost. Others define success or failure by how fast they ran. Only you can judge your performance. Avoid letting others sit in judgment of you.

  Hal Higdon

  Judging, Judgment, Lost

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• If one could run without getting tired I don't think one would often want to do anything else.

  C. S. Lewis

  Tired, Thinking, Want

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• If you want to become the best runner you can be, start now. Don't spend the rest of your life wondering if you can do it.

  Priscilla Welch

  Motivational, Softball, Want

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• That's the thing about running: your greatest runs are rarely measured by racing success. They are moments in time when running allows you to see how wonderful your life it.

  Kara Goucher

  Racing, Wonderful, Moments

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• I run because long after my footprints fade away, maybe I will have inspired a few to reject the easy path, hit the trails, put one foot in front of the other, and come to the same conclusion I did: I run because it always takes me where I want to go.

  Dean Karnazes

  Feet, Long, Want

  Dean Karnazes (2017). “Ultramarathon Man: Confessions of an All-Night Runner”, p.148, Atlantic Books

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• Running is about more than just putting one foot in front of the other; it is about our lifestyle and who we are.

  Joan Benoit

  Feet, Who We Are, Lifestyle

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• There is something about the ritual of the race - putting on the number, lining up, being timed - that brings out the best in us.

  Grete Waitz

  Race, Numbers, Track And Field

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• Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.

  Haruki Murakami

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Murakami Haruki, (2012). “L'arte di correre”, p.8, Giulio Einaudi Editore

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• The more I run, the more I want to run, and the more I live a life conditioned and influenced and fashioned by my running. And the more I run, the more certain I am that I am heading for my real goal: to become the person I am.

  George A. Sheehan

  Sports, Real, Live Life

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• Bid me run, and I will strive with things impossible.

  William Shakespeare

  Impossible, Strive, Runners

  William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Alexander Pope, Richard Farmer, Samuel Johnson (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare”, p.45

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• Mental will is a muscle that needs exercise, just like the muscles of the body.

  Lynn Jennings

  Motivational, Sports, Determination

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• Running! If there's any activity happier, more exhilarating, more nourishing to the imagination, I can't think what it might be. In running the mind flies with the body; the mysterious efflorescence of language seems to pulse in the brain, in rhythm with our feet and the swinging of our arms.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Thinking, Feet, Imagination

  "To Invigorate Literary Mind, Start Moving Literary Feet". www.nytimes.com. July 19, 1999.

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• Running well is a matter of having the patience to persevere when we are tired and not expecting instant results.

  Robert de Castella

  Tired, Matter, Persevere

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• Everyone is an athlete. The only difference is that some of us are in training, and some are not.

  George A. Sheehan

  Sports, Athlete, Differences

  George A. Sheehan, George Sheehan (1992). “Dr. George Sheehan on getting fit & feeling great”, Outlet

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• The answer to the big questions in running is the same as the answer to the big questions in life: Do the best with what you've got.

  George A. Sheehan

  Answers, Bigs, Do The Best

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• He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.

  Muhammad Ali

  Inspirational, Life, Success

  Twitter post from Jan 09, 2011

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• There's no such thing as bad weather, just soft people.

  Bill Bowerman

  Funny, Motivational, Nike

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  Running is a road to self-awareness and reliance-you can push yourself to extremes and learn the harsh reality of your physical and mental limitations or coast quietly down a solitary path watching the earth spin beneath your feet.

  Doris Brown Heritage

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

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• The real purpose of running isn't to win a race, it's to test the limits of the human heart.

  Bill Bowerman

  Real, Heart, Winning

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• Champions do not become champions when they win the event, but in the hours, weeks, months and years they spend preparing for it. The victorious performance itself is merely the demonstration of their championship character.

  Alan Armstrong

  Sports, Athlete, Character

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• The will to win means nothing without the will to prepare.

  Juma Ikangaa

  Motivational, Mean, Exercise

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