Marathon Running Quotes - Page 3

• If you fail to prepare, prepare to fail.

  Steve Prefontaine

  Inspirational Running, Track, Auditions

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• If you run 100 miles a week, you can eat anything you want - Why? Because (a) you'll burn all the calories you consume, (b) you deserve it, and (c) you'll be injured soon and back on a restricted diet anyway.

  Don Kardong

  Inspirational, Running, Track And Field

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• No negative thoughts cross my mind on race day. When I look into their eyes, I know I'm going to beat them.

  Danny Harris

  Motivational, Running, Eye

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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 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.

  Uta Pippig

  Beautiful, Running, Opponents

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• The gun goes off and everthing changes... the world changes... and nothing else really matters.

  PattiSue Plumer

  Motivational, Running, Gun

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• There is the truth about the marathon and very few of you have written the truth. Even if I explain to you, you'll never understand it, you're outside of it.

  Douglas Wakiihuri

  Motivational, Running, Athlete

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• Onions make me sad. A lot of people don't realize that.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Depression, Humor

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• 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.

  John Farrington

  Running, Pain, Cutting

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• Ask yourself: 'Can I give more?'. The answer is usually: 'Yes'.

  Paul Tergat

  Motivational, Running, Athlete

  "Coeurs d'athlètes". Sport/Documentary, 2003.

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• To describe the agony of a marathon to someone who's never run it is like trying to explain color to someone who was born blind.

  Jerome Drayton

  Inspirational, Motivational, Running

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• The marathon can humble you.

  Bill Rodgers

  Running, Humble, Boston Marathon

  Bill Rodgers, Matthew Shepatin (2013). “Marathon Man: My 26.2-Mile Journey from Unknown Grad Student to the Top of the Running World”, p.274, Macmillan

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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, Running

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• If you run, you are a runner. It doesn't matter how fast or how far. It doesn't matter if today is your first day or if you've been running for twenty years. There is no test to pass, no license to earn, no membership card to get. You just run.

  John Bingham

  Running, Years, Tests

  John Bingham (1999). “The Courage To Start: A Guide To Running for Your Life”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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• Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up, it knows it must outrun the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning in Africa, a lion wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the slowest gazelle, or it will starve. It doesn't matter whether you're the lion or a gazelle-when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.

  Christopher McDougall

  Inspirational, Motivational, Running

  Christopher McDougall (2010). “Born to Run: The hidden tribe, the ultra-runners, and the greatest race the world has never seen”, p.13, Profile Books

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• If you are losing faith in human nature, go out and watch a marathon.

  Kathrine Switzer

  Faith, Sports, Running

  "This Inspiring, Blind Young Man Is Running the NYC Marathon to Save Lives" by Sibylle Eschapasse, www.theepochtimes.com. October 29, 2015.

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  Run when you can, walk if you have to, crawl if you must; just never give up.

  Dean Karnazes

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

  Dean Karnazes (2006). “Ultramarathon Man: Confessions of an All-Night Runner”, p.197, Penguin

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• The will to win means nothing without the will to prepare.

  Juma Ikangaa

  Motivational, Running, Mean

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• Good things come slow, especially in distance running.

  Bill Dellinger

  Running, Giving Up, Distance

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• Your body will argue that there is no justifiable reason to continue. Your only recourse is to call on your spirit, which fortunately functions independently of logic.

  Tim Noakes

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

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• Stadiums are for spectators. We runners have Nature, and that is much better.

  Juha Vaatainen

  Running, Marathon, Stadiums

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• Listen to your body. Do not be a blind and deaf tenant.

  George A. Sheehan

  Running, Endurance, Body

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• You have to forget your last marathon before you try another. Your mind can't know what's coming.

  Frank Shorter

  Inspirational, Running, Mind

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• I've always felt that long, slow distance produces long, slow runners.

  Sebastian Coe

  Inspirational, Motivational, Running

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• There's no such thing as bad weather - only the wrong clothes.

  Billy Connolly

  Being Happy, Running, Adventure

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