Long slow distance makes long slow runners.
To get to the finish line, you'll have to try lots of different paths.
Marathoning is like cutting yourself unexpectedly. You dip into the pain so gradually that the damage is done before you are aware of it. Unfortunately, when the awareness comes, it is excruciating.
Running has taken me in, and continues to comfort, heal and challenge me in all kinds of magical ways. I am not a 'good runner' because I am me. I am a good 'me' because I am a runner.
We were born to run; we were born because we run.
It's better to burn out, than to fade away.
We may train or peak for a certain race, but running is a lifetime sport.
When the gun shoots, you got to go.
Whoever said, 'It's not whether you win or lose that counts,' probably lost.
Sport is not about being wrapped up in cotton wool. Sport as about adapting to the unexpected and being able to modify plans at the last minute. Sport, like all life, is about taking risks.
I'm going to work so that it's a pure guts race at the end, and if it is, I am the only one who can win it.
Running has never failed to give me great end results, and that's why I keep coming back for more!
The most important day in any running program is rest. Rest days give your muscles time to recover so you can run again. Your muscles build in strength as you rest.
Success does not come to the most righteous and rigorously disciplined but to those who continue running.
You have to forget your last marathon before you try another. Your mind can't know what's coming.
It doesn't matter whether you are a lion or a gazelle. When the sun comes up, you better be running.
The marathon's about being in contention over the last 10K. That's when it's about what you have in your core. You have run all the strength, all the superficial fitness out of yourself, and it really comes down to what's left inside you. To be able to draw deep and pull something out of yourself is one of the most tremendous things about the marathon.
The more we run from conflict, the more it masters us; the more we try to avoid it, the more it controls us; the less we fear conflict, the less it confuses us; the less we deny our differences, the less they divide us.
Stadiums are for spectators. We runners have Nature, and that is much better.
I've always felt that long, slow distance produces long, slow runners.
A dozen extra steps becomes a tremendous aggravation when you are pushing your edge out hour after hour.
The marathon is like a bullfight.
My doctor told me that jogging could add years to my life. I think he was right. I feel ten years older already.
I definitely want to show how beautiful the marathon can be. I am the opponent of all those who find the marathon bad: the psychologists, the physiologists, the doubters. I make the marathon beautiful for myself and for others. That's why I'm here.
Learn to run when feeling the pain, then push harder.
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