Best Distance Running Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: Built To Run: The Runner's GuideTo Fixing Common Injuries, Resolving Pain, And Optimizing Running Performance Now And For Life

“But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep.”

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

“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

“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.”

“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”

“And if any of you want some tips on running, don't be in a hurry, and never let any of the other runners know you are in a hurry even if you are. You can always overtake on long-distance running without letting others smell the hurry in you.”

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Author:Colin S. Smith

“We have these amazing gifts of music and mathematics and painting and Olympic running. I mean, we're the animal that is best of all the animals at long-distance running. Why? It is quite amazing. Superfluous gifts you don't really need to survive.”

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Author:Freeman Dyson

“Of course, long-distance running has to do with the fact that we're hunters.”

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Author:Freeman Dyson

“I love short stories. They're like small imploding universes. They are very tightly bound and controlled. I'd been wanting to write one for ages but just got tangled up in novels. The novel is the same in the sense that it is also a universe, but it explodes outwards with all that shrapnel going in several different directions. I don't see too much difference in the forms except for the fact that writing short stories is like sprinting rather than long-distance running.”

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

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Author:Rudyard Kipling

“The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win.”

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Author:Roger Bannister

“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.”

“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.”

“In general, any form of exercise, if pursued continuously, will help train us in perseverance. Long-distance running is particularly good training in perseverance.”

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Book:Mao's Road to Power: Revolutionary Writings, 1912-49: V. 1: Pre-Marxist Period, 1912-20: Revolutionary Writings, 1912-49

Source: Mao's Road to Power: Revolutionary Writings, 1912-49: V. 1: Pre-Marxist Period, 1912-20: Revolutionary Writings, 1912-49

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

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

Source: The Courage To Start: A Guide To Running for Your Life

“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.”

“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

“Distance running was revered because it was indispensable; it was the way we survived and thrived and spread across the planet. You ran to eat and to avoid being eaten; you ran to find a mate and impress her, and with her you ran off to start a new life together. You had to love running, or you wouldn't live to love anything else. And like everything else we love-everything we sentimentally call our 'passions' and 'desires'-it's really an encoded ancestral necessity. We were born to run; we were born because we run.”

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Author:Christopher McDougall

“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

“Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

Source: Inside track: my professional life in amateur track and field

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

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