Now I am not running to please sponsors or to be the No.1 U.S. runner. Now I look at each step I get to take as a gift. I run because I love to run. I want to be able to run until I am 90 years old.
Progress is rarely a straight line. There are always bumps in the road, but you can make the choice to keep looking ahead.
I don't think about the miles that are coming down the road, I don't think about the mile I'm on right now, I don't think about the miles I've already covered. I think about what I'm doing right now, just being lost in the moment.
Running has thrown me into adventures that I would otherwise have missed.
During the winter, you head out into the darkness for a run. When spring comes, and the first crocus pokes up its head...you know it was worthwhile.
Doing something for yourself like running, and using it to test yourself, will only make you feel better about your career or your family role.
Passion is pushing myself when there is no one else around-just me and the road.
For me, as for so many runners, there really are no finish lines. Runs end; running doesn't.
Twenty seconds before a race, there's absolute focus. The key thing is to achieve relaxation, but at the same to have absolute total control. You've got to find the balance between being totally ready to go and being really at peace with yourself as well.
The challenge and the energy running requires may be a selfish one, but it actually motivates me to be stronger in my relationships.
I always tell beginning runners: Train your brain first. It's much more important than your heart or legs.
Run with your heart instead of your mind. When you think with your mind, you think of the things you can and can't do. But when you run with your heart you forget about what you can't do, and you just go out and do it.
Worrying gets you nowhere. If you turn up worrying about how you're going to perform, you've already lost. Train hard, turn up, run your best and the rest will take care of itself.
Good things come slow, especially in distance running.
We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort.
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.
Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible.
A runner must run with dreams in his heart.
Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
That's the thing about running: your greatest runs are rarely measured by racing success. They are moments in time when running allows you to see how wonderful your life it.
A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.
Exerting yourself to the fullest within your individual limits: that's the essence of running, and a metaphor for life
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
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.
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