Runners Quotes - Page 25

• 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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• And when those bombs went off, there were runners who, after finishing a marathon, kept running for another two miles to the hospital to donate blood. So, here's what I know - these maniacs may have tried to make life bad for the people of Boston, but all they can ever do, is show just how good those people are.

  Stephen Colbert

  Running, Boston, Blood

  "Stephen Colbert, Jon Stewart salute Boston, mock 'maniacs'" by Ree Hines, www.today.com. April 17, 2013.

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• The hardest step for a runner to take is the first one out the door.

  Ron Clarke

  Doors, Firsts, Steps

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• Long-distance runners have to be very strange people. You have to really want to do it. You don't have to win or beat someone, you just have to get through the thing. That's the sense of victory. The sense of self-worth.

  Ted Corbitt

  Distance, Self Worth, Winning

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• Business is a sprint until you find an opportunity, then it's the patience of a marathon runner.

  Robert Herjavec

  Opportunity, Marathon, Sprint

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• The toughest question has always been, "How do you get your ideas?" How do you answer that? It's like asking runners how they run, or singers how they sing. They just do it!

  Lynn Johnston

  Running, Ideas, Singers

  Lynn Johnston (1994). “It's the Thought That Counts:: A For Better Or For Worse Fifteenth Anniversary Collection”, p.5, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• There is no such thing as an average runner. We are all above average.

  Hal Higdon

  Inspirational, Sports, Running

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