Distance Runner Quotes:

They say the breaks even up in the long run, and the trick is to be a long-distance runner.

- Chuck Knox

topic: Running, Distance, Long, Distance Runner, Break Even

Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.

- Jim Ryun

topic: Motivational, Motivation, Habit, Daily Habits, Healthy Habits

It is true that speed kills. In distance running, it kills anyone who does not have it.

- Brooks Johnson

topic: Running, Distance, Doe, Marathon Running, Motivational Cross Country Running

There's no such thing as bad weather - only the wrong clothes.

- Billy Connolly

topic: Being Happy, Weather, Clothes, Marathon Motivational, Marathon Runners

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 A. Sheehan

topic: Fitness, Running, Children, Marathon Motivational, Marathon Running

The body does not want you to do this. As you run, it tells you to stop but the mind must be strong. You always go too far for your body. You must handle the pain with strategy...It is not age; it is not diet. It is the will to succeed.

- Jacqueline Gareau

source: "Diversification and Discipline Are Key to Investing in Gold" by Frank Holmes, www.businessinsider.com. August 21, 2014.

topic: Fitness, Running, Strong, Marathon Motivational, Marathon Runners

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

- Juma Ikangaa

topic: Motivational, Running, Mean, Marathon Motivational, Marathon Runners

Everyone who has run knows that its most important value is in removing tension and allowing a release from whatever other cares the day may bring.

- Jimmy Carter

topic: Running, Important, Care, Inspirational Runner, Important Values

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

- George A. Sheehan

topic: Running, Differences, Blank, Great Running, Distance Runner

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

- Lynn Jennings

topic: Motivational, Running, Exercise, Marathon Motivational, Marathon Runners

Ask yourself: 'Can I give more?'. The answer is usually: 'Yes'.

- Paul Tergat

source: "Coeurs d'athlètes". Sport/Documentary, 2003.

topic: Running, Giving, Answers, Marathon Motivational, Marathon Runners

Workouts are like brushing my teeth; I don't think about them, I just do them. The decision has already been made.

- PattiSue Plumer

topic: Fitness, Workout, Thinking, Marathon Runners, Marathon Running

Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.

- Paavo Nurmi

topic: Positive Thinking, Mind, Pieces, Marathon Runners, Marathon Running

There's no such thing as bad weather, only inappropriate clothing

- Ranulph Fiennes

topic: Adventure, Weather, Inappropriate, Marathon Motivational, Marathon Runners

Good things come slow, especially in distance running.

- Bill Dellinger

topic: Running, Giving Up, Distance, Marathon Motivational, Marathon Runners

Stadiums are for spectators. We runners have Nature, and that is much better.

- Juha Vaatainen

topic: Running, Stadiums, Runners, Marathon Runners, Inspirational Runner

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

- George A. Sheehan

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

topic: Running, Athlete, Differences, Funny Sports, Distance Runner

Run like hell and get the agony over with.

- Clarence DeMar

topic: Running, Agony, Hell, Inspirational Runner, Inspirational Track

A lot of people don't realize that about 98 percent of the running I put in is anything but glamorous: 2 percent joyful participation, 98 percent dedication! It's a tough formula. Getting out in the forest in the biting cold and the flattening heat, and putting in kilometer after kilometer.

- Robert de Castella

topic: Running, Dedication, People, Marathon Motivational, Marathon Runners

The obsession with running is really an obsession with the potential for more and more life.

- George A. Sheehan

topic: Running, Obsession, Motivational Cross Country Running, Distance Runner, Distance Running

A lot of people don't realize that not everybody gets high.

- Molly Ringwald

source: Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

topic: Depression, Role Models, People, Marathon Motivational, Marathon Running

If you're feeling good, don't worry. You'll get over it.

- Yogi Berra

topic: God, Running, Worry, Murphys Law, Funny Bumper Sticker

Go in any direction..seeking out new sights just on the strength of your feet and the courage of your lungs.

- Paula Radcliffe

topic: Sight, Feet, Marathon Runners, Inspirational Training, Motivational Cross Country Running

I've always felt that long, slow distance produces long, slow runners.

- Sebastian Coe

topic: Running, Distance, Long, Marathon Motivational, Inspirational Track

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

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Running, Marathon Motivational, Marathon Runners

The long run is what puts the tiger in the cat.

- Bill Squires

topic: Running, Cat, Long, Marathon Runners, Motivational Cross Country Running

Racing teaches us to challenge ourselves. It teaches us to push beyond where we thought we could go. It helps us to find out what we are made of. This is what we do. This is what it's all about.

- PattiSue Plumer

topic: Running, Challenges, Racing, Marathon Motivational, Marathon Runners

When you run the marathon, you run against the distance, not against the other runners and not against the time.

- Haile Gebrselassie

topic: Running, Distance, Marathon, Marathon Runners, Marathon Running

I always loved running.... It was something you could do by yourself and under your own power.

- Jesse Owens

topic: Running, Endurance, Marathon Runners, Marathon Running, Inspirational Training

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

source: Sir Roger Bannister (2011). “The First Four Minutes”, p.142, The History Press

topic: Motivational, Sports, Running, Marathon Motivational, Marathon Runners

Some people create with words or with music or with a brush and paints. I like to make something beautiful when I run. I like to make people stop and say, 'I've never seen anyone run like that before.' It's more than just a race, it's a style. It's doing something better than anyone else. It's being creative.

- Steve Prefontaine

topic: Motivational, Beautiful, Running, Marathon Running, Inspirational Track

The real competition is against the little voice inside you that wants to quit

- George A. Sheehan

topic: Running, Real, Voice, Marathon Motivational, Marathon Runners

You shall become the person you are.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

source: Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, p.219, Vintage

topic: Jogging, Great Running, Distance Running, Marathon Motivational, Distance Runner

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

- Esa Tikkanen

topic: Running, Distance, Home, Finland, Distance Runner

A runners creed: I will win; if I cannot win, I shall be second; if I cannot be second, I shall be third; if I cannot place at all, I shall still do my best.

- Ken Doherty

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

topic: Running, Winning, Creeds, Great Running, Distance Runner

In golf, as in life, you get out of it what you put into it.

- Sam Snead

topic: Golf, Marathon Runners, Marathon Running, Inspirational Runner, Inspirational Track

Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.

- Henry James

topic: Art, Philosophy, History, Marathon Running, Inspirational Runner

Onions make me sad. A lot of people don't realize that.

- Mitch Hedberg

topic: Funny, Depression, Humor, Marathon Motivational, Inspirational Runner

The mile has a classic symmetry....It's a play in four acts.

- John Landy

topic: Running, Play, Four, Distance Runner, Distance Running

If one can stick to the training throughout the many long years, then will power is no longer a problem. It's raining? That doesn't matter. I am tired? That's besides the point. It's simply that I just have to.

- Emil Zatopek

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Sports, Long Distance Running, Distance Runner

The Athlete defeats fear and conquers himself!

- Franz Stampfl

topic: Athlete, Defeat, Conquer, Distance Runner, Distance Running

Top results are achieved only through pain. But eventually you like this pain.

- Juha Vaatainen

topic: Pain, Results, Great Running, Distance Runner

The mile has all the elements of a drama.

- Roger Bannister

topic: Running, Drama, Elements, Distance Runner, Distance Running

I haven't seen too many American distance men on the international scene willing to take risks. I saw some U.S. women in Barcelona willing to risk, more than men. The Kenyans risk. Steve Prefontaine risked. I risked - I went through the first half of the Tokyo race just a second off my best 5000 time.

- Billy Mills

topic: Running, Distance, Men, Distance Runner, Distance Running

Those who say that I will lose and am finished will have to run over my body to beat me.

- Said Aouita

topic: Running, Body, Beats, Distance Runner, Cross Country Motivational

People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.

- George Bernard Shaw

topic: Business, Winning, People, Daily Work, Marathon Motivational

It's at the borders of pain and suffering that the men are separated from the boys.

- Emil Zatopek

source: Attributed to Emil Zatopek in "Citius, Altius, Fortius" ("Swifter, Higher, Stronger"), an unsigned article from Khaleej Times, August 8, 2008.

topic: Running, Pain, Not Giving Up, Great Running, Distance Runner

Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.

- Calvin Coolidge

topic: Motivational, Wisdom, Loss, Unsuccessful, Perserverance