Runners Quotes - Page 2

• To know you are one with what you are doing, to know that you are a complete athlete, begins with believing you are a runner.

  George A. Sheehan

  Running, Believe, Athlete

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• If you can't win, make the one ahead of you break the record.

  John McKeithen

  Sports, Running, Winning

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• The nine inches right here; set it straight and you can beat anybody in the world.

  Sebastian Coe

  Running, World, Nine

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• The only tactics I admire are do-or-die

  Herb Elliott

  Running, Tactics, Admire

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• 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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• Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Death, Running

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 2, sc. 2, l. 30

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• Out on the roads there is fitness and self-discovery and the persons we were destined to be.

  George A. Sheehan

  Running, Discovery, Self

  George A. Sheehan, George Sheehan (1992). “Dr. George Sheehan on getting fit & feeling great”, Outlet

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• Jogging is very beneficial. It's good for your legs and your feet. It's also very good for the ground. If makes it feel needed.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Witty, Fitness Motivational, Exercise

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• The only reason I would take up jogging is so that I could hear heavy breathing again.

  Erma Bombeck

  Funny, Running, Sex

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Bid me run, and I will strive with things impossible.

  William Shakespeare

  Running, Impossible, Strive

  William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Alexander Pope, Richard Farmer, Samuel Johnson (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare”, p.45

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• The reason we race isn't so much to beat each other... but to be with each other.

  Christopher McDougall

  Running, Race, Reason

  FaceBook post by Christopher McDougall from Nov 08, 2016

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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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• As a sportsman, I accept being beaten. Everybody tries to be a winner, but only one in a race will win. It's fun to win. But I don't find unhappiness if I lose.

  Kipchoge Keino

  Motivational, Running, Fun

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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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• Champions do not become champions when they win the event, but in the hours, weeks, months and years they spend preparing for it. The victorious performance itself is merely the demonstration of their championship character.

  Alan Armstrong

  Sports, Running, Athlete

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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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• Success isn't how far you got, but the distance you traveled from where you started.

  Steve Prefontaine

  Running, Distance, Track

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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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• Gold medals aren't really made of gold. They're made of sweat, determination, and a hard-to-find alloy called guts.

  Dan Gable

  Sports, Determination, Wrestling

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• Learn to run when feeling the pain, then push harder.

  William Sigei

  Running, Pain, Feelings

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• To win without risk is to triumph without glory.

  Pierre Corneille

  Inspirational, Motivational, Strength

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• I am going to go out a winner if I have to find a high school race to win my last race.

  Johnny Gray

  Sports, School, Hockey

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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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• It's unnatural for people to run around the city streets unless they are thieves or victims. It makes people nervous to see someone running. I know that when I see someone running on my street, my instincts tell me to let the dog go after him.

  Mike Royko

  Running, Dog, Cities

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• Workouts are like brushing my teeth; I don't think about them, I just do them. The decision has already been made.

  PattiSue Plumer

  Motivational, Fitness, Running

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