Running Quotes - Page 8

• When you run in places you visit, you encounter things you'd never see otherwise.

  Tom Brokaw

  Visits You, Inspirational Running, Encounters

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• You have a choice. You can throw in the towel, or you can use it to wipe the sweat off of your face. Gatorade ad The will to win means nothing without the will to prepare.

  Juma Ikangaa

  Mean, Winning, Sweat

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• I love running cross-country...You come up a hill and see two deer going, 'What the hell is he doing?' On a track I feel like a hamster.

  Robin Williams

  Country, Giving Up, Two

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• Sometimes...I just want to run away from it all

  Natsuki Takaya

  Want, Sometimes, Running Away

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• The only reason I would take up jogging is so that I could hear heavy breathing again.

  Erma Bombeck

  Funny, Sex, Exercise

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  Steve Prefontaine

  Motivational, Beautiful, Race

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• No doubt a brain and some shoes are essential for marathon success, although if it comes down to a choice, pick the shoes. More people finish marathons with no brains than with no shoes.

  Don Kardong

  Inspirational, Shoes, People

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• The start of a World Cross Country event is like riding a horse in the middle of a buffalo stampede. It's a thrill if you keep up, but one slip and you're nothing but hoof prints.

  Ed Eyestone

  Country, Horse, Events

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  Struggling and suffering are the essence of a life worth living. If you're not pushing yourself beyond the comfort zone, if you're not demanding more from yourself - expanding and learning as you go - you're choosing a numb existence. You're denying yourself an extraordinary trip.

  Dean Karnazes

  Struggle, Essence, Suffering

  Dean Karnazes (2017). “Ultramarathon Man: Confessions of an All-Night Runner”, p.141, Atlantic Books

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• Hills are speedwork in disguise.

  Frank Shorter

  Inspirational, Motivational, Athlete

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• People think I'm crazy to put myself through such torture, though I would argue otherwise. Somewhere along the line we seem to have confused comfort with happiness... Dostoyevsky had it right: 'Suffering is the sole origin of consciousness.' Never are my senses more engaged than when the pain sets in. There is a magic in misery. Just ask any runner.

  Dean Karnazes

  Pain, Confused, Crazy

  "Ultramarathon Man". Book by Dean Karnazes, March 17, 2005.

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• Self trust is the essence of heroism.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Confidence, Wisdom, Hero

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Adam Starchild (2002). “Character and Heroism”, p.63, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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• In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running; if you stand still, they will swallow you.

  Victor Kiam

  Business, Humorous, Service Culture

  "Management" by Arthur G. Bedeian, (p. 133), 1989.

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  Don't waste a minute not being happy. If one window closes, run to the next window- or break down a door.

  Brooke Shields

  Inspirational, Happy, Wise

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Thank God, it's over.

  Neil Cusack

  Thank God

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• I was unable to walk for a whole week after that, so much did the race take out of me. But it was the most pleasant exhaustion I have ever known.

  Emil Zatopek

  Race, Marathon, Week

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  Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit. We are all the same in this notion: The potential for greatness lives within each of us.

  Wilma Rudolph

  Inspirational, Motivational, Dream

  "50 stunning Olympic moments No35: Wilma Rudolph's triple gold in 1960" by Rob Bagchi, www.theguardian.com. June 1, 2012.

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• The mile has all the elements of a drama.

  Roger Bannister

  Drama, Elements, Miles

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• 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.

  Emil Zatopek

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

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• Life (and running) is not all about time but about our experiences along the way.

  Jennifer Rhines

  Inspirational Running, Motivational Running, Way

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• A lot of people don't realize that about 98 percent of the running I put in is anything but glamorous: 2 percent joyful participation, 98 percent dedication! It's a tough formula. Getting out in the forest in the biting cold and the flattening heat, and putting in kilometer after kilometer.

  Robert de Castella

  Dedication, People, Biting

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• It is a paradox to say the human body has no 'limit.' There must be a limit to the speed at which men can run. I feel this may be around 3:30 for the mile. However, another paradox remains - if an athlete manages to run 3:30, another runner could be found to marginally improve on that time.

  Roger Bannister

  Athlete, Men, Body

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

  Doug Larson

  Inspirational, Positive, Attitude

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

  Emil Zatopek

  Pain, Not Giving Up, Boys

  Attributed to Emil Zatopek in "Citius, Altius, Fortius" ("Swifter, Higher, Stronger"), an unsigned article from Khaleej Times, August 8, 2008.

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• Anyone can run 20 miles. It's the next six that count.

  Barry Magee

  Six, Next, Marathon

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