Running Funny Quotes

Running is the greatest metaphor for life, because you get out of it what you put into it.

Oprah Winfrey

Motivational, Running, Fitness

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I've always felt that long, slow distance produces long, slow runners.

Sebastian Coe

Inspirational, Motivational, Running

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Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

Confucius

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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The five S's of sports training are: stamina, speed, strength, skill, and spirit; but the greatest of these is spirit.

Ken Doherty

Inspirational, Motivational, Strength

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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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Stadiums are for spectators. We runners have Nature, and that is much better.

Juha Vaatainen

Running, Marathon, Stadiums

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American naturalist John Burroughs put it, “A man can fail many times, but he isn’t a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.

Jeff Olson

Running, Failure, Responsibility

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Cross Country: No half times, no time outs, no substitutions. It must be the only true sport.

Chuck Norris

Sports, Country, Track

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Tomorrow is another day, and there will be another battle!

Sebastian Coe

Inspirational, Running, Battle

"Olympian ambitions" by Clare Balding, www.theguardian.com. February 12, 2005.

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Make the mind run the body. Never let the body tell the mind what to do. The body will always give up.

George S. Patton

Running, Giving Up, Mind

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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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Good things come slow, especially in distance running.

Bill Dellinger

Running, Giving Up, Distance

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There's no such thing as bad weather - only the wrong clothes.

Billy Connolly

Being Happy, Running, Adventure

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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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There's no such thing as bad weather, only inappropriate clothing

Ranulph Fiennes

Running, Adventure, Weather

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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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I always loved running... it was something you could do by yourself, and under your own power. You could go in any direction, fast or slow as you wanted, fighting the wind if you felt like it, seeking out new sights just on the strength of your feet and the courage of your lungs.

Jesse Owens

Motivational, Fitness, Running

Jesse Owens, Paul G. Neimark (1978). “Jesse, a spiritual autobiography”

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There's no such thing as bad weather, just soft people.

Bill Bowerman

Funny, Motivational, Nike

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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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I had as many doubts as anyone else. Standing on the starting line, we're all cowards.

Alberto Salazar

Softball, Running, Doubt

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Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second.

William James

Running, Dream, Inspirational Sports

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To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift.

Steve Prefontaine

Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership

"Pre: Americas Greatest Running Legend, Steve Prefontaine". Book by Tom Jordan, 1977.

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No doubt a brain and some shoes are essential for marathon success, although if it comes down to a choice, pick the shoes. More people finish marathons with no brains than with no shoes.

Don Kardong

Inspirational, Running, Shoes

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There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

John Ruskin

Change, Running, Rainy Day

"The Use Of Life". Book by John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury. Chapter 4: "Recreation", 1894.

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