Runners Quotes - Page 9

• When you hit a certain spot you Sprint no matter how you feel inside or what your co-runner thinks. You just go! In training as a nickel, you sprint because you need to sprint! You just do it! In racing people see it and call it courage, but it is attitude; determination; duty.

  Gerry Lindgren

  Determination, Attitude, Thinking

  Interview with Mick Grant, John Molvar, www.youthrunner.com. January 12, 2011.

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• My first option is not to run. I am not a runner. I'm a quarterback.

  Daunte Culpepper

  Running, Firsts, Quarterback

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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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• There is an endorphin rush that comes when you puke. It's kind of like a runners wall. Once you cross that wall, once you cross that party wall and you puke, you do get a rush. There are good chemicals there. And also, you've made more room in your gut, in your stomach, in your gullet for more content, whether it be fluids or foods.

  Andrew W.K.

  Wall, Party, Rooms

  Source: collider.com

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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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• 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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• You have an advantage if you win. I always think it's best to be remembered as a winner rather than as the runner-up. It's definitely more fun getting the gold than it is the silver.

  Simon Cowell

  Fun, Winning, Thinking

  Interview with Jerry Nunn, chicago.gopride.com. December 19, 2013.

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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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• Long slow distance makes long slow runners.

  Jim Bush

  Running, Distance, Long

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• I don't think I would have been such a good runner if I hadn't enjoyed it.

  Grete Waitz

  Running, Thinking, Enjoyed

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• It doesn't matter how fast or how far you're going. If you're putting on your shoes and going out for a run, you are a runner, you are in that club.

  Kara Goucher

  Running, Shoes, Going Out

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• In addition to the well-known benefits of health and well-being derived from exercise, there are other unique advantages to being a runner. You are more attuned to not only your body but also the world around you. The outdoor life you lead as a runner gives you a special relationship with your surroundings: nature, the climate, the seasons. As you depend on these things to accommodate your activity, you grow to understand and appreciate them.

  Grete Waitz

  Inspirational, Exercise, Unique

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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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• So for front-runners we have a black and a woman. It's like being made to choose between syphilis or having and old man crap on your face. I would do the country a favor and run myself but I couldn't deprive Hollywood of me for 4 years.

  Zach Braff

  Running, Country, Men

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• It was being a runner that mattered, not how fast or how far I could run. The joy was in the act of running and in the journey, not in the destination.

  John Bingham

  Running, Journey, Joy

  John Bingham (2002). “No Need for Speed: A Beginner's Guide to the Joy of Running”, p.159, Rodale

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• I have a family and you know very well the time that that takes. That's good time. I have a couple hobbies. I'm a runner and play tennis. In the summer my family and I uproot ourselves and go live in Maine for the summer. We have a house on a very tiny island in Maine. Which is really my spiritual center. We've been going there for ten years, and it has no ferry service, no bridges, no telephone service. It's really isolated.

  Alan Lightman

  Summer, Spiritual, Couple

  Source: www.identitytheory.com

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• The Bears are front-runners. Quitters. They are not a second-half team, just a bunch of cry-babies.

  George Preston Marshall

  Baby, Team, Half

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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, Marathon

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• No, I don't run all the way. I'm not like an Olympic class runner.

  Bruce McCulloch

  Running, Class, Way

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• There is a growing subculture of barefoot runners, people who got rid of their shoes. And what they have found uniformly is you get rid of the shoes, you get rid of the stress, you get rid of the injuries and the ailments.

  Christopher McDougall

  Motivation, Stress, Inspiration

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• I watch 2001: A Space Odyssey every time it’s on. I made the kids watch it every time, too, and now they just love watching it. Stanley Kubrick’s great. And Blade Runner is one of my top three science fiction films. A lot of it has come true.

  Bruce Willis

  Kids, Space, Blade Runner

  "Bruce Willis: Maybe he really is a sci-fi guy". Interview with Peter Howell, www.thestar.com. September 27, 2012.

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• One of the most painful things for me was Jay Leno, Jay Leno going back on the air and saying to people that it was a choice between his writing staff and his crew, I think that really hurt a lot of show runners, because it was never a choice between our writers and our crew.

  Edward Allen Bernero

  Hurt, Writing, Thinking

  Source: deadline.com

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• I wouldn't say there was a moment of realization when I wanted to be a runner; it was always just something I was.

  Ashton Eaton

  Realization, Moments, Wanted

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• I am a better hitter with runners in scoring position.

  Robinson Cano

  Position

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• Wile E. Coyote is a coyote with nothing but good intentions. But Road Runner comes along and is unattainable, he wants it and can't get it, and thus he becomes a villain that is impossible to be around. Bill O'Reilly is a villain that is so in love with himself and the sound of his voice that he's literally become the personification of evil.

  Shawn Hatosy

  Voice, Evil, Sound

  Source: collider.com

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