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• We runners talk about having fun but I don't think anybody believes us. We talk about discipline and endurance, we take care, we exercise caution, we watch our diets and monitor our pace. We are ascetics who talk, unconvincingly, of the bracing enjoyment of self-abuse.

  Peter Sagal

  Fun, Believe, Exercise

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• To say that politics is not a part of sports is not being realistic. When I run, I am more than a runner. I am a diplomat, an ambassador for my country.

  Filbert Bayi

  Sports, Running, Country

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• Ultimately, the best runners are the ones who are willing to work very hard but who have a little bit of a lazy streak in them.

  Benji Durden

  Lazy, Littles, Streaks

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• Presidential Democratic front-runner Howard Dean admitted to Chris Matthews on the 'Hardball' show that he got out of the draft because of a bad back. He had a curvature of the spine. Apparently it curved too far to the left.

  Jay Leno

  Presidential, Dean, Spine

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• It's nine months before the election and Bush's poll numbers have fallen to the exact level that his father's poll numbers were nine months before he lost to Bill Clinton. Today front runner John Kerry said he's not superstitious, but just to be on the safe side, he's going to start f---ing everything that moves.

  Bill Maher

  Father, Moving, Numbers

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• The true runner comes to the finish and receives the prize and is crowned.

  Plato

  Victory, Prize

  Plato (2016). “The Republic”, p.499, Xist Publishing

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• Is it not true that the clever rogue is like the runner who runs well for the first half of the course, but flags before reaching the goal: he is quick off the mark, but ends in disgrace and slinks away crestfallen and uncrowned. The crown is the prize of the really good runner who perseveres to the end.

  Plato

  Encouraging, Running, Perseverance

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• My parents had irrational fears of Mexico and assumed that once you crossed the border, drug runners made you swallow a heroin balloon and then within the hour you were in a bathtub full of ice and they were harvesting your kidneys.

  Justin Halpern

  Ice, Parent, Drug

  Justin Halpern (2010). “Shit My Dad Says”, p.111, Pan Macmillan

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• I am very amazed by the runners out there because I like jog to the garbage can outside sometimes, and I get tired.

  Kacy Catanzaro

  Tired, Garbage Cans, Sometimes

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• I didn't know I hit that way (.625 with runners in scoring position). Maybe not knowing is my secret. If I chased numbers, maybe I wouldn't have as good results.

  Ichiro Suzuki

  Numbers, Knowing, Secret

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• Men ran after and ate horses for four hundred thousand years. The outcome is more than a love of horse flesh; it is a runner's body.

  Paul Shepard

  Horse, Men, Years

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• It sucks to be the runner-up because I've been the runner-up for a long time in my career. I would get so close and then lose a huge movie and sometimes it's one kid who beats you out for three different movies. It's so frustrating at the time, but what's so great is the lesson you take from that, which is, 'I've got to get better.'

  Jason Dohring

  Kids, Careers, Long

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• It's always, 'Are you the runner girl?' I say, 'My name is Sally actually.' I used to always get that at school as well, 'Are you the runner girl?' I'm not even the runner girl, I'm a hurdler.

  Sally Pearson

  Girl, School, Names

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Ambition is to be the fastest runner on this planet, to be the first on the South Pole, which is a grotesque perversion of ambition. It's an ego trip, and I'm not on an ego trip. I don't have ambitions - I have a vision.

  Werner Herzog

  Ambition, Ego, Vision

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• WINNER:is A Runner who “Wins Inspite Of Ninety Nine Excellent
  Runners!

  Sujit Lalwani

  Winning, Ninety Nine, Winner

  Sujit Lalwani (2014). “Life Simplified!: Simplifying Lives Globally...”, p.52, Partridge Publishing

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• Rigel, Betelgeuse, and Orion. There was no finer church, no finer choir, than the stars speaking in silence to the many consumptives silently condemned, a legion upon the dark rooftops. The wind came down from the north like a runner in lacrosse, violent and hard, to batter every living thing. They were there, each one alone in conversation with the stars, mining ephemeral love from cold and distant light.

  Mark Helprin

  Stars, Dark, Light

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• My thoughts and prayers go out to the thousands of marathon runners, onlookers, city officials and others affected by this senseless tragedy.

  Ed Markey

  Prayer, Cities, Tragedy

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• Running is the classical road to self-consciousn ess, self-awareness and self-reliance. Independence is the outstanding characteristic of a runner. He learns the harsh reality of his physical and spiritual limitations when he runs. He learns that personal commitment, sacrifice and determination are his only means to betterment. Runners get promoted only through self-conquest.

  Noel Coward

  Running, Spiritual, Determination

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• I would like to see a fierce Fantasia mixed with Blade Runner, Lord of the Rings, and Star Wars all in one. That's the kind of movies I want to make.

  Michelle Rodriguez

  Stars, War, Blade Runner

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• NYC Marathon cancelled: runners are scrambling to find some other meaningless accomplishment to use as a proxy for control over their lives.

  Nils Parker

  Nyc, Accomplishment, Use

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• John Kerry is finding out that it is no fun to be the front runner, that's when you get all the heat. He had to deny internet rumors this week that he had Botox treatments. The Republicans say Kerry should have a clear, unfurrowed brow the old fashioned way by not giving a sh--.

  Bill Maher

  Fun, Should Have, Giving

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• The one thing that I really appreciate about being a runner is the incredible friendships and camaraderie that we, as runners, share. Although it will always be a cutthroat competition for every spot on every team, our companionship transcends these competitive rivalries.

  Jennifer Rhines

  Running, Team, Appreciate

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• Several of my critics have said, 'Bowerman just tacks up a piece of paper in the locker room and turns his runners loose.' They're partially right. I do give the athletes a relatively free rein and for good reason. One of my principles is? 'Don't overcoach.'

  Bill Bowerman

  Running, Athlete, Giving

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• It's like a runner or a swimmer training all the time. I sing every day.

  Burton Cummings

  Training, Swimmer

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• You make it all sound so simple. Run your guts out...collapse at the finish, throw up, that makes a good runner. Sounds like you regret not being more like Prefontaine....Everyone gripes to me that American marathoners are 'lazy-no-good-for-nothings'. My point is, many people have criticisms, but few have valid answers. I'd like to know what happened to the guys that kicked my ass in high school.

  Keith Brantly

  Running, Regret, School

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