Running Quotes

"There are clubs you can't belong to, neighborhoods you can't live in, schools you can't get into, but the roads are always open." - Nike

"I've always felt that long, slow distance produces long, slow runners." - Sebastian Coe

"Every morning in Africa a gazelle wakes up. It knows it must move faster than the lion or it will not survive. Every morning a lion wakes up and it knows it must move faster than the slowest gazelle or it will starve. It doesn't matter if you are the lion or the gazelle, when the sun comes up, you better be moving." - Maurice Greene (attributed to Roger Bannister shortly after running the first sub-4 mile)

"Most people run a race to see who is fastest. I run a race to see who has the most guts." - Steve Prefontaine

"You have to forget your last marathon before you try another. Your mind can't know what's coming." - Frank Shorter

The only reason I would take up jogging is so that I could hear heavy breathing again. - Erma Bombeck

Finland has produced so many brilliant distance runners because back home it costs $2.50 a gallon for gas. - Esa Tikkannen, 1979

There are as many reasons for running as there are days in the year, years in my life. But mostly I run because I am an animal and a child, an artist and a saint. So, too, are you. Find your own play, your own self-renewing compulsion, and you will become the person you are meant to be. - George Sheehan

If God invented marathons to keep people from doing anything more stupid, the triathlon must have taken Him completely by surprise. - P.Z. Pearce

The difference between a jogger and a runner is an entry blank. - George Sheehan

"There ain't no shame looking at a good runner's back. Now, if the runner sucks, that's something else entirely… "The Rage, Training Tips "Comeback"

"No doubt a brain and some shoes are essential for marathon success, although if it comes down to a choice, pick the shoes. More people finish marathons with no brains than with no shoes." - Don Kardong

"There will come a point in the race, when you alone will need to decide. You will need to make a choice. Do you really want it? You will need to decide." - Rolf Arands

"Most mistakes in a race are made in the first two minutes, perhaps in the very first minute." - Jack Daniels, Exercise Physiologist and Coach

"Why aren't you signed up for the 401K? I'd never be able to run that far." - Scott Adams, Dilbert (4/2/01)

"If you can't win, make the fellow ahead of you break the record." - Unknown

"Hills are speedwork in disguise." - Frank Shorter

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