To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift.
I run to see who has the most guts.
There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.
There's no such thing as bad weather, just soft people.
Running is the greatest metaphor for life, because you get out of it what you put into it.
In golf, as in life, you get out of it what you put into it.
Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up, it knows it must outrun the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning in Africa, a lion wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the slowest gazelle, or it will starve. It doesn't matter whether you're the lion or a gazelle-when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.
A race is a work of art that people can look at and be affected in as many ways they're capable of understanding.
The will to win means nothing without the will to prepare.
It is true that speed kills. In distance running, it kills anyone who does not have it.
Good things come slow, especially in distance running.
Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
The miracle isn't that I finished. The miracle is that I had the courage to start.
It doesn't matter whether you are a lion or a gazelle. When the sun comes up, you better be running.
Listen to your body. Do not be a blind and deaf tenant.
I always loved running.... It was something you could do by yourself and under your own power.
Stadiums are for spectators. We runners have Nature, and that is much better.
Run like hell and get the agony over with.
If you run 100 miles a week, you can eat anything you want - Why? Because (a) you'll burn all the calories you consume, (b) you deserve it, and (c) you'll be injured soon and back on a restricted diet anyway.
The freedom of cross country is so primitive. It's woman vs. nature.
or simply:
