Hills are speedwork in disguise.
There’s not a better feeling than when you have found that moment of balance and harmony when both running and life come together. Then you know why you run and that you couldn’t live without it.
I run to see who has the most guts.
I wanted the world to know that my country Ethiopia has always won with determination and heroism.
There is something about the ritual of the race - putting on the number, lining up, being timed - that brings out the best in us.
Don't listen to negative influences. Believe in yourself, and show others what you can do. Only "you" can find your potential.
For me, as for so many runners, there really are no finish lines. Runs end; running doesn't.
Run when you can, walk if you have to, crawl if you must; just never give up.
The challenge and the energy running requires may be a selfish one, but it actually motivates me to be stronger in my relationships.
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.
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.
If you run, you are a runner. It doesn't matter how fast or how far. It doesn't matter if today is your first day or if you've been running for twenty years. There is no test to pass, no license to earn, no membership card to get. You just run.
The will to win means nothing without the will to prepare.
Good things come slow, especially in distance running.
I've run the Boston Marathon 6 times before. I think the best aspects of the marathon are the beautiful changes of the scenery along the route and the warmth of the people's support. I feel happier every time I enter this marathon.
Mental will is a muscle that needs exercise, just like the muscles of the body.
Living life is like running a marathon. It takes a lot of courage and tenacity to keep going till the end.
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
I always loved running.... It was something you could do by yourself and under your own power.
Stadiums are for spectators. We runners have Nature, and that is much better.
Often I visualize a quicker, like almost a ghost runner, ahead of me with a quicker stride. It's really crazy. In races, this always happens to me. I see the vision of a runner ahead of me, maybe just 15, 20 meters ahead of me, and the cadence of that runner, which is actually me in the future, is a little quicker, so if I'm going (his rhythm/breathing), then my ghost runner, the vision of me, ahead of me, like opening up and just going for it, is quicker .
At the end of a marathon, it's going to hurt whether you're speeding up or slowing down. You may as well push.
Marathon running, for me, was the most controlled test of mettle that I could ever think of. It's you against Darwin.
But it's the wrestler who can put the fatigue out of his mind and break through the "wall," like a marathon runner after 18 or 20 miles, who will survive. The key to that survival is in hard workouts that develop mental confidence to the point where you won't submit to fatigue and pain descending upon you.
What kind of crazy nut would spend two or three hours a day just running?
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