Running Quotes - Page 7

• If you train your mind for running, everything else will be easy.

  Amby Burfoot

  Mind, Easy, Train

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• A lot of people run a race to see who is fastest. I run to see who has the most guts, who can punish himself into exhausting pace, and then at the end, punish himself even more.

  Steve Prefontaine

  Pain, Race, People

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• Somebody may beat me, but they are going to have to bleed to do it.

  Steve Prefontaine

  May, Beats, Tainted

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• I can't imagine living and not running.

  Paula Radcliffe

  Sports, Imagine, I Can

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• A coach can be like oasis in the desert of a runner's lost enthusiasm.

  Ken Doherty

  Oasis, Desert, Enthusiasm

  Ken Doherty (1964). “Modern training for running”, Prentice Hall

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• The nine inches right here; set it straight and you can beat anybody in the world.

  Sebastian Coe

  World, Nine, Inches

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• Only think of two things - the report of the pistol and the tape. When you hear one, run like hell until you break the other.

  Sam Mussabini

  Inspirational, Motivational, Thinking

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• When I was about 14 or 15, and running in a pretty muddy cross country race, one of my shoes stuck in the mud and came off. Boy, was I wild. To think that I had trained hard for this race and didn't do up my shoelace tightly enough! I really got aggressive with myself, and I found myself starting to pass a lot of runners. As it turned out, I improved something like twenty places in that one race. But I never did get my shoe back.

  Robert de Castella

  Country, Boys, Thinking

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• Running! If there's any activity happier, more exhilarating, more nourishing to the imagination, I can't think of what it might be.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Thinking, Imagination, Endurance

  Joyce Carol Oates (2009). “The Faith of a Writer: Life, Craft, Art”, p.29, Zondervan

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• Blink and you miss a sprint. The 10,000 meters is lap after lap of waiting. Theatrically, the mile is just the right length: beginning, middle, end, a story unfolding.

  Sebastian Coe

  Waiting, Missing, Jogging

  "An Exclusive Club". Interview with Gary Smith, www.si.com. June 27, 1994.

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• It's unnatural for people to run around the city streets unless they are thieves or victims. It makes people nervous to see someone running. I know that when I see someone running on my street, my instincts tell me to let the dog go after him.

  Mike Royko

  Dog, Cities, People

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• Ninety-eight percent of success is in the head and the heart.

  Cathy Ferguson

  Success, Heart, Eight

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• You have to wonder at times what you're doing out there. Over the years, I've given myself a thousand reasons to keep running, but it always comes back to where it started. It comes down to self-satisfaction and a sense of achievement.

  Steve Prefontaine

  Motivational, Success, Softball

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• We all know that if you run, you are pretty much choosing a life of success because of it.

  Deena Kastor

  Inspirational Running, Knows, Ifs

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• Then I will tell you something. I do not believe in it. Forty years among men has consistently taught me that they are not amenable to commonsense. Show them the red tail of a comet, fill them with black terror, and they will all come running out of their houses and break their legs. But tell them one sensible proposition, and support it with seven reasons, and they will simply laugh in your face.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Believe, Men, Years

  "Plays: The Caucasian chalk circle. The threepenny opera. The trial of Lucullus. The life of Galileo".

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• The gun goes off and everthing changes... the world changes... and nothing else really matters.

  PattiSue Plumer

  Motivational, Gun, Track

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• The only tactics I admire are do-or-die

  Herb Elliott

  Tactics, Admire, Runners

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• To describe the agony of a marathon to someone who's never run it is like trying to explain color to someone who was born blind.

  Jerome Drayton

  Inspirational, Motivational, Color

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• A winner is someone who sets their goals, commits themselves to those goals and then pursues their goals with all the ability that is given to them. That requires someone who beleives in themselves, who will make self sacrifices, work hard, and maintain the determination to perform at the best of their ability.

  Leeman Bennett

  Inspirational, Determination, Hard Work

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• I was 12 when I started and 34 before I achieved my dream, that should give people hope.

  Kelly Holmes

  Dream, People, Giving

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• Jogging is for people who aren't intelligent enough to watch television.

  Victoria Wood

  Inspirational, Intelligent, People

  1989 Victoria Wood, television series. Published in Mens Sana in Thingummy Doodah (1991).

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• No matter what happens I'll keep on moving. Until this life runs out of me I'll keep on walking (Allen Walker)

  Katsura Hoshino

  Moving, Matter, This Life

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• When I race my mind is full of doubts - who will finish second, who will finish third?

  Noureddine Morceli

  Motivational, Faith, Sports

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• Play not only keeps us young but also maintains our perspective about the relative seriousness of things. Running is play, for even if we try hard to do well at it, it is a relief from everyday cares.

  Jim Fixx

  Play, Perspective, Everyday

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• Any idiot can train himself into the ground; the trick is working in training to get gradually stronger.

  Keith Brantly

  Motivational, Athlete, Training

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