Motivational Running Quotes - Page 2

• Running has thrown me into adventures that I would otherwise have missed.

  Benjamin Cheever

  Running, Adventure, Adventurous

  Benjamin Cheever (2007). “Strides: Running Through History with an Unlikely Athlete”, p.93, Rodale

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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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• I always tell beginning runners: Train your brain first. It's much more important than your heart or legs.

  Amby Burfoot

  Sports, Running, Heart

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• Twenty seconds before a race, there's absolute focus. The key thing is to achieve relaxation, but at the same to have absolute total control. You've got to find the balance between being totally ready to go and being really at peace with yourself as well.

  Cathy Freeman

  Sports, Running, Peace

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  Worrying gets you nowhere. If you turn up worrying about how you're going to perform, you've already lost. Train hard, turn up, run your best and the rest will take care of itself.

  Usain Bolt

  Success, Running, Perseverance

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• Progress is rarely a straight line. There are always bumps in the road, but you can make the choice to keep looking ahead.

  Kara Goucher

  Motivational, Running, Choices

  FaceBook post by Kara Goucher from Jan 23, 2013

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• Doing something for yourself like running, and using it to test yourself, will only make you feel better about your career or your family role.

  Joan Benoit

  Family, Fitness, Running

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• During the winter, you head out into the darkness for a run. When spring comes, and the first crocus pokes up its head...you know it was worthwhile.

  Nina Kuscsik

  Sports, Fitness, Running

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• Now I am not running to please sponsors or to be the No.1 U.S. runner. Now I look at each step I get to take as a gift. I run because I love to run. I want to be able to run until I am 90 years old.

  Suzy Favor Hamilton

  Love, Sports, Running

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• The challenge and the energy running requires may be a selfish one, but it actually motivates me to be stronger in my relationships.

  Joan Benoit

  Motivational, Relationship, Sports

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• Passion is pushing myself when there is no one else around-just me and the road.

  Ryan Shay

  Sports, Running, Passion

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• For me, as for so many runners, there really are no finish lines. Runs end; running doesn't.

  Dean Karnazes

  Sports, Running, Lines

  Dean Karnazes (2008). “50/50: Secrets I Learned Running 50 Marathons in 50 Days -- and How You Too Can Achieve Super Endurance!”, p.176, Hachette UK

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• Acknowledge all of your small victories. They will eventually add up to something great.

  Kara Goucher

  Motivational, Running, Greatness

  FaceBook post by Kara Goucher from Oct 10, 2013

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• Good things come slow, especially in distance running.

  Bill Dellinger

  Running, Giving Up, Distance

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• We run, not because we think it is doing us good, but because we enjoy it and cannot help ourselves...The more restricted our society and work become, the more necessary it will be to find some outlet for this craving for freedom. No one can say, 'You must not run faster than this, or jump higher than that.' The human spirit is indomitable.

  Roger Bannister

  Motivational, Sports, Running

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  We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort.

  Jesse Owens

  Inspirational, Motivational, Running

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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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• A runner must run with dreams in his heart.

  Emil Zatopek

  Fitness, Running, Dream

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• Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  "Perfectionism: What's Bad About Being Too Good". Book by Miriam Adderholdt and Jan Goldberg, 1987.

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• If you're going through hell, keep going.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• That's the thing about running: your greatest runs are rarely measured by racing success. They are moments in time when running allows you to see how wonderful your life it.

  Kara Goucher

  Running, Racing, Wonderful

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• Exerting yourself to the fullest within your individual limits: that's the essence of running, and a metaphor for life

  Haruki Murakami

  Running, Essence, Limits

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “What I Talk About When I Talk About Running”, p.83, Random House

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• A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.

  John Burroughs

  Inspirational, Positive, Running

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• Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "From Telegraph to Light Bulb with Thomas Edison". Book by Deborah Headstrom-Page, 2007.

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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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