Running Race Quotes:

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

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

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.

- Confucius

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Life Wisdom, Perserverance

It's very hard in the beginning to understand that the whole idea is not to beat the other runners. Eventually you learn that the competition is against the little voice inside you that wants you to quit.

- George A. Sheehan

topic: Motivational, Running, Ideas, Marathon Motivational, Marathon Runners

The miracle isn't that I finished. The miracle is that I had the courage to start.

- John Bingham

source: John Bingham (1999). “The Courage To Start: A Guide To Running for Your Life”, p.210, Simon and Schuster

topic: Inspirational, Softball, Sports, Marathon Motivational, Motivational Cross Country Running

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

topic: Sports, Running, Reality, Marathon Motivational, Motivational Cross Country Running

My thoughts before a big race are usually pretty simple. I tell myself: Get out of the blocks, run your race, stay relaxed. If you run your race, you'll win... channel your energy. Focus.

- Carl Lewis

source: Carl Lewis, Jeffrey Marx (1992). “Inside track: my professional life in amateur track and field”, Fireside

topic: Running, Block, Athlete, Marathon Running, Sports Spirit

When you put yourself on the line in a race and expose yourself to the unknown, you learn things about yourself that are very exciting.

- Doris Brown Heritage

topic: Running, Race, Lines, Race Day, Race Motivational

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

Your body will argue that there is no justifiable reason to continue. Your only recourse is to call on your spirit, which fortunately functions independently of logic.

- Tim Noakes

topic: Sports, Body, Arguing, Marathon Motivational, Funny Running

To give anything less than your best, is to sacrifice the gift.

- Steve Prefontaine

source: "Pre: Americas Greatest Running Legend, Steve Prefontaine". Book by Tom Jordan, 1977.

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership, Marathon Motivational, Marathon Runners

A race is a work of art that people can look at and be affected in as many ways they're capable of understanding.

- Steve Prefontaine

topic: Motivational, Running, Art, Marathon Motivational, Marathon Runners

Good things come slow, especially in distance running.

- Bill Dellinger

topic: Running, Giving Up, Distance, 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

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

- Bill Bowerman

topic: Running, Real, Heart, Motivational Cross Country Running, Great Running

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

topic: Running, Pain, Race, Marathon Motivational, Marathon Runners

Just put one foot in front of the other.

- Austin Peck

source: Joe De Sena (2014). “Spartan Up!: A Take-No-Prisoners Guide to Overcoming Obstacles and Achieving Peak Performance in Life”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

topic: Feet, Marathon Man, Marathon Motivational, Marathon Running, Marching Forward

Running from your problems is a race you'll never win.

- Kid Cudi

topic: Running, Winning, Race, Running Race

If you want to win a race you have to go a little berserk.

- Bill Rodgers

topic: Running, Winning, Race, Marathon Running, Berserk

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

- Yogi Berra

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

A lot of people give up when the world seems to be against them, but that's the point when you should push a little harder. I use the analogy of running a race. It seems as though you can’t carry on, but if you just get through the pain barrier, you'll see the end and be okay. Often, just around the corner is where the solution will happen.

- James Dyson

source: "Failure Doesn’t Suck". Interview with Chuck Salter, www.fastcompany.com. May 1, 2007.

topic: Running, Pain, Giving Up, Running Race, Around The Corner

Printer's ink has been running a race against gunpowder these many, many years. Ink is handicapped, in a way, because you can blow up a man with gunpowder in half a second, while it may take twenty years to blow him up with a book. But the gunpowder destroys itself along with its victim, while a book can keep on exploding for centuries.

- Christopher Morley

source: Christopher Morley (2013). “The Haunted Bookshop”, p.90, Melville House

topic: Running, Book, Science, Printer, Running Race

He who is running a race ought to endeavor and strive to the utmost of his ability to come off victor; but it is utterly wrong for him to trip up his competitor, or to push him aside. So in life it is not unfair for one to seek for himself what may accrue to his benefit; but it is not right to take it from another.

- Chrysippus

source: "De Officiis". Book by Cicero, iii. 10, 44 BC.

topic: Running, Race, Benefits, Running Race

I can respect the gulf that separates alpinism from a running race and still appreciate that the physiology that accounts for endurance is the same if you are running a foot race in the city park or front pointing up the second ice field on the north face of the Eiger.

- Steve House

source: Source: www.omnivoracious.com

topic: Running, Feet, Race, Alpinism, City Parks

I work with a place in Santa Monica called Phase IV. My doctor recommended them to me when I started losing weight. They help people train for things like triathlons or biking and running races. They offer physical therapists, testing, lectures.

- Drew Carey

source: "Drew Carey: 'I feel like I'm aging in reverse". Interview with Mary Brophy Marcus, usatoday30.usatoday.com. May 8, 2011.

topic: Running, Doctors, Race, Monica, Physical Therapist

I grew up as a tomboy. I was always barefoot, running races with the guys on the block, climbing trees, and beating kids up.

- Edie Falco

source: "A Look at Edie Falco's Busy Schedule". Interview with Bruce Fretts, ew.com. January 15, 1999.

topic: Running, Block, Kids, Climbing Trees, Running Race

When you're busy doing your own stuff it's like running a race. You try not to look over your shoulder to see who else is in the race, you do the best you can.

- Gene Simmons

topic: Running, Race, Over You, Running Race

I am not a bloody ghoda running a race that you give me a tag. I am competitive, and the reason for that is that I want to do the best films.

- Anushka Sharma

topic: Running, Race, Giving, Running Race

As a writer, being produced and getting credits is essential: it's like being a horse running a race - and if the movie is a success, then your horse won and people were right to bet on it. From my experience, and a lot of others have done it, it's the best way to start out in the industry and get recognition, which will then get you more work, and later on will allow you to do your own movies.

- Matthew Jacobs

topic: Running, Horse, Race, Running Race

It's a little bit silly to pit us all against each other as if we were running a race. Just think about the fact that Richard Burton never won an Oscar.

- Julianna Margulies

source: Source: deadline.com

topic: Running, Silly, Thinking, Running Race

The Tarahumara would party like this all night, then rouse themselves the next morning to face off in a running race that could last not two miles, not two hours, but two full days. According to the Mexican historian Francisco Almada, a Tarahumara champion once ran 435 miles, the equivalent of setting out for a jog in New York City and not stopping till you were closing in on Detroit.

- Christopher McDougall

topic: Running, Morning, New York, Running Race

When I was nine, I had this girlfriend and we used to have running races in the park. I wanted to be like Superman and fly in and rescue her.

- Orlando Bloom

topic: Running, Girlfriend, Race, Running Race