Inspirational Running Quotes - Page 7

• You train best where you are the happiest.

  Frank Shorter

  Running, Where You Are, Train

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• Recognize your victories.

  Joan Benoit

  Running, Victory

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• Finland has produced so many brilliant distance runners because back home it costs $2.50 a gallon for gas.

  Esa Tikkanen

  Inspirational, Funny, Running

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• Aiming for the marathon is a task of sorts which can include terrific highs and lows.

  Bill Rodgers

  Running, Tasks, Marathon

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• Intelligent coaching is sometimes no coaching.

  Marty Stern

  Running, Inspiration, Intelligent

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• Get going. Get up and walk if you have to, but finish the damned race.

  Ron Hill

  Motivational, Running, Athlete

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• Blink and you miss a sprint. The 10,000 meters is lap after lap of waiting. Theatrically, the mile is just the right length: beginning, middle, end, a story unfolding.

  Sebastian Coe

  Running, Waiting, Missing

  "An Exclusive Club". Interview with Gary Smith, www.si.com. June 27, 1994.

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• Marathon running is a terrible experience: monotonous, heavy, and exhausting.

  Veikko Karvonen

  Motivational, Running, Athlete

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• The more I run, the more I want to run, and the more I live a life conditioned and influenced and fashioned by my running. And the more I run, the more certain I am that I am heading for my real goal: to become the person I am.

  George A. Sheehan

  Sports, Running, Real

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• I have learned that there is no failure in running, or in life, as long as you keep moving. It's not about speed. And gold medals. It's about refusing to be stopped. you might find that one particular direction proves difficult, but there are many directions on a compass. Infinite, in fact. As long as you keep searching, you'll find your winning way.

  Amby Burfoot

  Running, Moving, Winning

  Amby Burfoot (2000). “The Runner's Guide to the Meaning of Life: What 35 Years of Running Have Taught Me About Winning, Losing, Happiness, Humility, and the Human Heart”, p.77, Rodale

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• Somethings don't always work out the way you plan. The main thing is to keep trying, do better next time, and deal with disappointment if it comes.

  Yogi Berra

  Running, Disappointment, Work Out

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• 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.

  Ryan Hall

  Running, Thinking, Live In The Moment

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• To finish will leave you feeling like a champion and positively change your life.

  Jeff Galloway

  Running, Champion, Feelings

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• Running helps me stay on an even keel and in an optimistic frame of mind.

  William J. Clinton

  Motivational, Running, Optimistic

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• I don't think jogging is healthy, especially morning jogging. If morning joggers knew how tempting they looked to morning motorists, they would stay home and do sit-ups.

  Rita Rudner

  Running, Morning, Home

  Rita Rudner (1993). “Naked Beneath My Clothes: Tales of a Revealing Nature”, Penguin Group USA

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• The more I train the more I realize I have more speed in me.

  Leroy Burrell

  Sports, Running, Preparation

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• A runner must run with dreams in his heart.

  Emil Zatopek

  Fitness, Running, Dream

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  Run often. Run long. But never outrun your joy of running.

  Julie Isphording

  Running, Long, Joy

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• I always thought of running as just dancing forward.

  Tom Hiddleston

  Running, Dancing

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• Don't give up on the impossible before you try it.

  Clarence Munn

  Running, Giving Up, Don't Give Up

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• 1. Stress improvement, not perfection (or winning). 2. Don't take yourself too seriously; laugh at yourself and have fun. 3. Set attainable goals; reach them and then set higher ones. 4. Be positive, walk tall, smile often, don't complain or procrastinate. 5. Prepare purposely, but don't overtrain. 6. Remember- Sports is a game and meant to be enjoyable.

  Dick Gould

  Sports, Running, Fun

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• As I get, I give. Giving as you get is critical. It has everything to do with being happy for yourself, and making others happy is the cause of making yourself happy, and it’s the cycle of giving and getting.

  Russell Simmons

  Motivational, Giving, Causes

  "Russell Simmons Interview With ORIGIN Magazine: How To Make Positive Changes". Interview With Ocean Pleasant, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 3, 2013.

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• 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.

  Kristin Armstrong

  Running, Taken, Challenges

  Kristin Armstrong (2011). “Mile Markers: The 26.2 Most Important Reasons Why Women Run”, p.3, Rodale

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• Coaches are okay, I guess, but I prefer to do things my own way.

  Jack Foster

  Motivational, Running, Athlete

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• Big occasions and races which have been eagerly anticipated almost to the point of dread, are where great deeds can be accomplished.

  Jack Lovelock

  Motivational, Running, Race

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