Inspirational Running Quotes - Page 8

• It is true that speed kills. In distance running, it kills anyone who does not have it.

  Brooks Johnson

  Running, Distance, Track

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• Coming off the last turn, my thoughts changed from 'One more try...one more try...one more try...' to 'I can win! I can win! I can win!

  Billy Mills

  Running, Winning, Trying

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• The freedom of cross country is so primitive. It's woman vs. nature.

  Lynn Jennings

  Running, Country, Crosses

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• I've always taken the philosophy that you have to dream a little in this sport. If you stay in your comfort zone, you're not going to do anything special.

  Deena Kastor

  Sports, Running, Dream

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• To understand Cerutty you have to see him as a multifaceted personality. He could be both charming and very abusive. He was extremely amusing and darn good company providing you weren't quarrelling with him.

  John Landy

  Running, Personality, Charming

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• Coaching is an art and I'm not going to let anyone change me.

  Marty Stern

  Running, Art, Coaching

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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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• Life is a positive-sum game. Everyone from the gold medallist to the last finisher can rejoice in a personal victory.

  George A. Sheehan

  Running, Games, Victory

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• A runners creed: I will win; if I cannot win, I shall be second; if I cannot be second, I shall be third; if I cannot place at all, I shall still do my best.

  Ken Doherty

  Running, Winning, Creeds

  Ken Doherty (1964). “Modern training for running”, Prentice Hall

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• The real purpose of running isn't to win a race, it's to test the limits of the human heart.

  Bill Bowerman

  Running, Real, Heart

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• Runners...you're competitive, but you want to have fun, too. You want to enjoy life. And runners really get to do that, I think-after we recover.

  Bill Rodgers

  Running, Fun, Thinking

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• I think I get used to, even addicted to, the feelings associated with the end of a long training run. I love feeling empty, clean, worn out, starving, and sweat-purged. I love the good ache of muscles that have done me proud. I love the way a cold beer tastes later that afternoon. I love the way my body feels light and sinewy.

  Kristin Armstrong

  Running, Beer, Thinking

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• Stepping outside the comfort zone is the price I pay to find out how good I can be. If I planned on backing off every time running got difficult I would hang up my shoes and take up knitting.

  Desiree Linden

  Running, Shoes, Knitting

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• Thank God for running. It is the ultimate detox for me, whether my poison is bubbles, a foul mood, or a bad attitude. If I combat inertia, get out, and get moving, eventually every kind of toxin works its way out.

  Kristin Armstrong

  Running, Attitude, Moving

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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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• If the coach cannot do it, he cannot 'teach' it-only talk about it.

  Percy Cerutty

  Training, Teach, Coaches

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• There is an expression among even the most advanced runners that getting your shoes on is the hardest part of any workout

  Kathrine Switzer

  Motivational, Running, Workout

  Kathrine Switzer (2014). “Running & Walking for Women Over 40”, p.26, Diversion Books

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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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• 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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• Every athlete has doubts. Elite runners in particular are insecure people. You need someone to affirm that what you are doing is right.

  Lynn Jennings

  Running, Athlete, Insecure

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• The footing was really atrocious. I loved it. I really like Cross Country; you're one with the mud.

  Lynn Jennings

  Running, Country, Mud

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• Intelligent coaching is sometimes no coaching.

  Marty Stern

  Running, Inspiration, Intelligent

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• If you want to tell something to an athlete, say it quickly and give no alternatives. This is a game of winning and losing. It is senseless to explain and explain.

  Paavo Nurmi

  Running, Athlete, Winning

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• The New York Marathon: a fantastic event.

  Pope John Paul II

  Running, New York, Events

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