Running Quotes - Page 10

• The difference between the mile and the marathon is the difference between burning your fingers with a match and being slowly roasted over hot coals.

  Hal Higdon

  Pain, Differences, Hot

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• You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.

  Anatole France

  Love, Relationship, Faith

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It is true that speed kills. In distance running, it kills anyone who does not have it.

  Brooks Johnson

  Distance, Track, Doe

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• The best pace is a suicide pace, and today looks like a good day to die.

  Steve Prefontaine

  Life, Suicide, Good Day

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• If a man coaches himself, then he has only himself to blame when he is beaten.

  Roger Bannister

  Men, Blame, Inspirational Runner

  Sir Roger Bannister (2011). “The First Four Minutes”, p.41, The History Press

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• I'm never going to run this again.

  Grete Waitz

  Marathon, Marathon Runners

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• Life is often compared to a marathon, but I think it is more like being a sprinter; long stretches of hard work punctuated by brief moments in which we are given the opportunity to perform at our best.

  Michael Johnson

  Life, Motivational, Sports

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• When I came back, after all those stories about Hitler and his snub, I came back to my native country, and I could not ride in the front of the bus. I had to go to the back door. I couldn't live where I wanted. Now what's the difference?

  Jesse Owens

  Country, Differences, Doors

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• I made the school team, and when I won in a match against another school it was the greatest moment of my life even greater than the European titles. In those school races, I always ran my legs off. There were girls watching and I wanted to impress them. I was foaming and vomiting, but I won

  Juha Vaatainen

  Girl, Team, School

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• Coming off the last turn, my thoughts changed from 'One more try...one more try...one more try...' to 'I can win! I can win! I can win!

  Billy Mills

  Winning, Trying, Lasts

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• In a country where only men are encouraged, one must be one's own inspiration.

  Tegla Loroupe

  Motivational, Country, Inspiration

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• I have never been a killer. I'm not an aggressive personality and if I can remember any emotion I felt during a race it was fear. The greatest stimulator of my running was fear.

  Herb Elliott

  Race, Personality, Killers

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• It all goes so fast, and character makes the difference when it's close

  Jesse Owens

  Sports, Athlete, Character

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

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• I wanted no part of politics. And I wasn't in Berlin to compete against any one athlete. The purpose of the Olympics, anyway, was to do your best. As I'd learned long ago from Charles Riley, the only victory that counts is the one over yourself.

  Jesse Owens

  Athlete, Long Ago, Over You

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

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• The freedom of cross country is so primitive. It's woman vs. nature.

  Lynn Jennings

  Country, Crosses, Primitive

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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

  Regret, School, Simple

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• Once you have decided that winning isn't everything, you become a winner.

  George A. Sheehan

  Winning, Winner, Decided

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• The single biggest change in middle-distance running, from the 1500 metres to 10,000 metres, has been the track surface.

  Herb Elliott

  Distance, Track, Surface

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• If I faltered, there would be no arms to hold me and the world would be a cold and forbidding place.

  Roger Bannister

  Arms, Would Be, World

  Sir Roger Bannister (2011). “The First Four Minutes”, p.123, The History Press

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• It's an incredible feeling, 110,000 people energy at that level. What I realized from watching the first day of competition was that athletes that got excited and happy and got the fans into it and clapping, they did better. The athletes that took it too seriously, they didn't do as well as they'd hoped.

  Gabe Jennings

  Athlete, People, Competition

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• After I left the podium in Atlanta, I felt so fulfilled in my career that I lost my desire to compete at that level again.

  Carl Lewis

  Atlanta, Careers, Desire

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• It is suicidal for other runners to copy my hill sessions without adequate background.

  Pekka Vasala

  Suicidal, Adequate, Hills

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• I wanted to run my race. I didn't want to sit there and play games and see who could kick the hardest. I wanted it to be a race.

  Marla Runyan

  Race, Games, Play

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• A miler's kick does the trick...A miler's kick does the trick.

  Rod Dixon

  Doe, Tricks, Kicks

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• It was a very strange, disappointing race in that no one wanted to take it out. That's why I took the lead. I wanted some people to run the real distance and that was frustrating. So I took the pace around the second lap, which in some ways is suicidal...but I wanted the pace to be honest.

  Marla Runyan

  Real, Distance, Suicidal

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