Marathon Quotes - Page 14

• Part of the reason I fell in love with the trail is because it was so extremely difficult, more difficult than the marathons and Ironmans I'd competed in. Not just physically but emotionally it was a new challenge, as well. It really helped me to learn and grow in so many ways.

  Jennifer Pharr Davis

  Challenges, Way, Reason

  "Pharr Davis thrives on trail". Interview with Anna Katherine Clemmons, www.espn.com. July 2, 2013.

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• I do a lot of marathons as training runs. If I'm somewhere and there's a marathon, I'll sign up and just go run it.

  Dean Karnazes

  Running, Training, Ifs

  "Dean Karnazes Makes Marathoners Look Lazy" By Catherine Pearson, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 30, 2012.

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• to maintain success, stamina is more important than talent. You have to learn to be a marathon runner.

  Joan Rivers

  Success, Perseverance, Important

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• Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future, predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me, and far from my friends be such frigid philosophy as may conduct us indifferent and unmoved over any ground which has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue. That man is little to be envied whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of Ionia.

  Samuel Johnson

  Philosophy, Thinking, Past

  'A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland' (1775) 'Inch Kenneth'

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• When I was first running marathons, we were sailing on a flat earth. We were afraid we'd get big legs, grow mustaches, not get boyfriends, not be able to have babies. Women thought that something would happen to them, that they'd break down or turn into men, something shadowy, when they were only limited by their own society's sense of limitations.

  Kathrine Switzer

  Sports, Running, Baby

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• Star Trek was a big thing for me. I kind of grew up with that. And Twilight Zone is one of my all-time favorite shows. In fact me and Sam Witwer from Being Human sit down and have marathons to get our little Twilight Zone fix.

  Mark Pellegrino

  Stars, Twilight, Down And

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• You plant a garden one flower at a time. ... You write a book one word at a time, clean a closet one shelf at a time, run a marathon one step at a time. If you feel defeated by some large task, get your spade and dig the first hole.

  Jeanne Marie Laskas

  Running, Perseverance, Determination

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• The novelist is more a marathon runner than long-distance runner and the kind of courage it takes working in such isolation cannot be underestimated. I really respect my fellow writers on this front.

  Tobsha Learner

  Distance, Long, Novelists

  "'Sphinx' by Tobsha Learner". The Australian Women's Weekly Interview, www.nowtolove.com.au. May 11, 2009.

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• I am happy that I ran the half-marathon, but to me, just running and saying that I finished a race isn't enough for me. I want to run the race as best as I can. Working out for pants size isn't enough. I need a goal or a race to get back on the treadmill every day.

  Drew Carey

  Running, Race, Work Out

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• My brother was a big marathoner. He was a great collegiate runner at Beloit College. He won his conference's races, and he did tons of marathons. I would go out and run with him every once in a while just to hang out with him.

  Tate Donovan

  Running, Brother, College

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• Whatever your body type is, just use it. There are definitely things that I can do that skinnier people can't do. But then there are things that skinnier people do that I'll never be able to do, like run a marathon. There's just no way that will ever happen.

  Amanda Bingson

  Running, People, Body Types

  "Amanda Bingson: 'Athletes come in all shapes and sizes'". Interview with Morty Ain, www.espn.com. July 6, 2015.

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• Just as you can't become a marathon runner by watching marathons on TV, likewise for science, you have to go through the thought processes of doing science and not just watch your instructor do it.

  Eric Mazur

  Watches, Tvs, Process

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• If people were possessed by reason, running marathons would never work. But we are not creatures of reason. We are creatures of passion.

  Noel Carroll

  Running, Passion, People

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• I really do believe that chance favours a prepared mind. Wallace Stegner, who was one of my teachers when I was at Stanford, preached that writing a novel is not something that can be done in a sprint. That it's a marathon. You have to pace yourself. He himself wrote two pages every day and gave himself a day off at Christmas. His argument was at the end of a year, no matter what, you'd got 700 pages and that there's got to be something worth keeping.

  Scott Turow

  Teacher, Believe, Writing

  "'To hell with Perry Mason'". Interview with Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. November 24, 2002.

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• A novel takes the courage of a marathon runner, and as long as you have to run, you might as well be a winning marathon runner. Serendipity and blind faith faith in yourself won't hurt a thing. All the bastards in the world will snicker and sneer because they haven't the talent to zip up their flies by themselves. To hell with them, particularly the critics. Stand in there, son, no matter how badly you are battered and hurt.

  Leon Uris

  Running, Hurt, Son

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• One skill that separates good from almost-good runners is an ability to concentrate for an entire race, whether it is a mile or a marathon.

  Kara Goucher

  Race, Skills, Racing

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• Novels are a marathon, while comic scripts are a sprint.

  Duane Swierczynski

  Scripts, Comic, Novel

  "Crime novelist Duane Swierczynski on shedding the Spanx for noir in the new BLACK HOOD #1". Interview with Donna Dickens, uproxx.com. January 28, 2015.

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• Do you think I'd be stupid enough to go running with someone I was foolin' with?

  William J. Clinton

  Running, Stupid, Thinking

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• Do you want me to answer that?

  Monica Lewinsky

  Running, Answers, Want

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• A marathon is a like a roller coaster... You might toss your cookies, jump for joy, pass out, or have to close your eyes and just breathe. Even when it is going smooth, all of a sudden there can be a drop or even better, an acceleration. Hang on, stick to your plan, and enjoy every step of the way. I can't wait to do another....or maybe ten! Get after it!

  Carrie Tollefson

  Running, Eye, Joy

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• Racing a marathon is a true and simple way to test the human spirit. Whether it goes perfectly or poorly you will certainly learn something about yourself and be a better person for having tackled the distance.

  Blake Russell

  Running, Distance, Simple

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• I would love to say that the world is changing in the movie industry for people of color, women, the LGBTQ community and other minorities since I began my career, and that we are evolving as a species, but I think that given this social and political climate, I'm at a loss. It's like running a marathon and thinking you're halfway done and you can see the finish line - but the finish line is actually the first checkpoint.

  Alexandra Shipp

  Running, Loss, Thinking

  Source: deadline.com

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• The mountains look on Marathon And Marathon looks on the sea; And musing there an hour alone, I dreamed that Greece might still be free.

  Robert Byron

  Sea, Mountain, Looks

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• Yesterday was the New York City Marathon. The marathon was won in record time by a Democrat candidate running away from President Obama.

  Conan O'Brien

  Running, New York, Cities

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• Yesterday was the New York City Marathon. Republicans won in a landslide.

  David Letterman

  New York, Cities, Yesterday

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