Inspirational Running Quotes - Page 11

• Some might say that it's easier to be the runner than the runner's family.

  Robert de Castella

  Running, Might, Easier

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• If you put down a good, solid foundation and build one room after another, pretty soon you have a house. You build in your speedwork, your pace and increase your ability to run races and think races out. Then it's possible to run the way we do.

  Rod Dixon

  Running, Thinking, Race

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• I lean with the hill. I know I'm doing it right if it feels like I'm going to fall on my face but I don't.

  Ed Eyestone

  Running, Fall, Faces

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• I think if you're open-minded, the road will take you where it takes you. If you're closed, you might not get to go where the road is heading.

  Russell Simmons

  Running, Journey, Thinking

  FaceBook post by Russell Simmons from Sep 20, 2015

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• The most beautiful motion is that which accomplishes the greatest results with the least amount of effort.

  Plato

  Beautiful, Running, Effort

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• Training is doing your homework. It's not exciting. More often than not it's tedious. There is certainly no glory in it. But you stick with it, over time, and incrementally through no specific session, your body changes. Your mind becomes calloused to effort. You stop thinking of running as difficult or interesting or magical. It just becomes what you do. It becomes a habit.

  Jack Edmonds

  Running, Thinking, Interesting

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• There are times when you run a marathon and you wonder, Why am I doing this? But you take a drink of water, and around the next bend, you get your wind back, remember the finish line, and keep going.

  Steve Jobs

  Running, Bad Day, Wind

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• I think I'm less afraid of failure than some others.

  Russell Simmons

  Thinking, Afraid Of Failure

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• As athletes, we have ups and downs. Unfortunately, you can't pick the days they come on.

  Deena Kastor

  Running, Athlete, Ups & Downs

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• Fitness if like the blade of a knife; you want to sharpen it without ruining the blade.

  Sally Jenkins

  Running, Knives, Want

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• Independence is the outstanding characteristic of the runner.

  Noel Carroll

  Sports, Running, Independence

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• Once you have decided that winning isn't everything, you become a winner.

  George A. Sheehan

  Running, Winning, Winner

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• I'd rather run a gutsy race, pushing all the way and lose, than run a conservative race only for a win.

  Alberto Salazar

  Running, Winning, Race

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• Motivation is a skill. It can be learned and practiced.

  Amby Burfoot

  Running, Motivation, Skills

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• In a country where only men are encouraged, one must be one's own inspiration.

  Tegla Loroupe

  Motivational, Country, Running

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• The thing that makes [Bob] Kennedy so good is that he doesn't have a fear of losing. He was willing to go to Europe and get hammered.

  Frank Shorter

  Running, Europe, Bob

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• When I was about 14 or 15, and running in a pretty muddy cross country race, one of my shoes stuck in the mud and came off. Boy, was I wild. To think that I had trained hard for this race and didn't do up my shoelace tightly enough! I really got aggressive with myself, and I found myself starting to pass a lot of runners. As it turned out, I improved something like twenty places in that one race. But I never did get my shoe back.

  Robert de Castella

  Country, Running, Boys

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• They're very tenacious. They're dedicated. Once a woman decides she's going to do something, she'll probably stick to it. The only problem with women is if there's anything wrong with them, they won't tell you. They'll get out there and run on one leg. They don't moan and groan like a lot of men do.

  Arthur Lydiard

  Running, Men, Legs

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• Running is my meditation, mind flush, cosmic telephone, mood elevator and spiritual communion.

  Lorraine Moller

  Sports, Running, Spiritual

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• Running! If there's any activity happier, more exhilarating, more nourishing to the imagination, I can't think of what it might be.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Running, Thinking, Imagination

  Joyce Carol Oates (2009). “The Faith of a Writer: Life, Craft, Art”, p.29, Zondervan

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• I felt like I played in a very rough football game with no hitting above the waist.

  Alan Page

  Football, Running, Games

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• Whether we athletes liked it or not, the 4-minute mile had become rather like an Everest: a challenge to the human spirit, it was a barrier that seemed to defy all attempts to break it, an irksome reminder that men's striving might be in vain.

  Roger Bannister

  Running, Athlete, Men

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• I ran my first sub-4-minute mile in 1977 and since then have run 136 more. Nobody has run as many sub-4s as I have, and I intend to run at least one more.

  Steve Scott

  Running, Firsts, Minutes

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• So much in life seems inflexible and unchangeable, and part of the joy of running and especially racing is the realization that improvement and progress can be achieved.

  Nancy Anderson

  Running, Joy, Racing

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• Well, no athlete respects a big, fat coach who's going to stand there and rest the watch on his stomach.

  Arthur Lydiard

  Running, Athlete, Watches

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