Best Distance Runner Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Back in the 1970s, I ate a high-protein diet to get bigger and stronger. As a senior at Utah State, I weighed 218 pounds with eight percent body fat, and threw the discus over 190 feet. Then I got some advice from the people at the Olympic Training Center. I needed carbs, they advised, and lots of them. They pointed to studies done on the American distance runners. Being an idiot, I took the advice to eat like emaciated, over-trained sub-performers. It took years of high carbohydrate grazing to learn the evils of this advice.”

“Actually, ambition won't get you that far. You'll shift gears. You'll see something that's shinier. But if you believe... then you're the long-distance runner.”

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Author:Sam Abell

“The Athlete defeats fear and conquers himself!”

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Author:Franz Stampfl

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

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Author:Haile Gebrselassie

“The so-called new Russian man is characterized mainly by his complete exhaustion. You may find yourself wondering if he has the strength to enjoy his new-found freedom. He is like a long-distance runner who, on reaching the finishing line, is incapable even of raising his hands in a gesture of victory.”

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Author:Ryszard Kapuscinski

“The novelist is more a marathon runner than long-distance runner and the kind of courage it takes working in such isolation cannot be underestimated. I really respect my fellow writers on this front.”

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Author:Tobsha Learner

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

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

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

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

“I came in on this movie after there had been a director and I came in after Tom Courtenay had talked to Ron Harwood about making a movie. So, you know Tom and Albert Finney had been friends since the beginning of their career as they became stars around the same time - Tom always reminds me that Albert was first with Saturday Night and Sunday Morning and then Tom with The Long Distance Runner.”

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Author:Dustin Hoffman

“You shall become the person you are.”

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Book:The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs

Source: The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs

“Some people create with words or with music or with a brush and paints. I like to make something beautiful when I run”

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

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Author:Juha Vaatainen

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

“There is nothing more common than unsuccessful men with talent.”

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Author:Joe Strummer

“To be a champion long-distance runner you have to run on the edge of death.”

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Author:Toshihiko Seko

“Swimming is probably the ultimate of burnout sports. It's ironic because millions of people who swim as their regular exercise love the meditation aspect of it; you don't wind up with any orthopedic injuries. But when you swim at a world class level for hours and hours - the loneness of the long distance runner.”

“I do identify with Olympic athletes quite a lot because they have to push to reach a certain plateau and some of them go on and some of them give up and some art - you know, some people are very talented in art and do a few amazing things and then give it up and go on and do other things, and others are in it for the long haul, more or less long-distance runners.”

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Author:Lawrence Jordan

“I am a lonely runner, but I am a long-distance runner.”

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Author:Louise Bourgeois

“Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.”

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Author:Rudyard Kipling

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

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Author:Steve Prefontaine

“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.”

“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.”

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

“I run to see who has the most guts.”

“My whole feeling in terms of racing is that you have to be very bold. You sometimes have to be aggressive and gamble.”

“There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.”

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

“Once we get into the groove, we're kind of like long-distance runners - that adrenalin kicks in for me and I just keep running - and I don't stop!”

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Author:Keith Urban

“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.”

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

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

“I always loved running... it was something you could do by yourself, and under your own power. You could go in any direction, fast or slow as you wanted, fighting the wind if you felt like it, seeking out new sights just on the strength of your feet and the courage of your lungs.”

Source: Jesse, a spiritual autobiography

“Running is the greatest metaphor for life, because you get out of it what you put into it.”

“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.”

“The distance runner is mysteriously reconciling the separations of body and mind, of pain and pleasure, of the conscious and the unconscious. He is repairing the rent, and healing the wound in his divided self. He has found a way to make the ordinary extraordinary; the commonplace unique; the everyday eternal.”

Source: Dr. George Sheehan on getting fit & feeling great

“Nearly all runners do their slow runs too fast, and their fast runs too slow." Ken Mierke says. "So they're just training their bodies to burn sugar, which is the last thing a distance runner wants. You've got enough fat stored to run to California, so the more you train your body to burn fat instead of sugar, the longer your limited sugar tank is going to last." -The way to activate your fat-burning furnace is by staying below your aerobic threshold--your hard-breathing point--during your endurance runs.”

Source: Born to Run: The hidden tribe, the ultra-runners, and the greatest race the world has never seen

“Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up, it knows it must outrun the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning in Africa, a lion wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the slowest gazelle, or it will starve. It doesn't matter whether you're the lion or a gazelle-when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.”

Source: Born to Run: The hidden tribe, the ultra-runners, and the greatest race the world has never seen

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

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Book:The plays and poems of William Shakspeare

Source: The plays and poems of William Shakspeare

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

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Author:Jim Ryun

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

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Book:Jimmy Carter

Source: Jimmy Carter

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

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Author:George A. Sheehan

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

“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.”

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