If you are losing faith in human nature, go out and watch a marathon.
To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift.
Anyone can run 20 miles. It's the next six that count.
If you want to run, run a mile. If you want to experience a different life, run a marathon.
When you run the marathon, you run against the distance, not against the other runners and not against the time.
You entered a marathon with hills? You idiot.
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.
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
You have to forget your last marathon before you try another. Your mind can't know what's coming.
The marathon is an art; the marathoner is an artist.
The miracle isn't that I finished. The miracle is that I had the courage to start.
The marathon's about being in contention over the last 10K. That's when it's about what you have in your core. You have run all the strength, all the superficial fitness out of yourself, and it really comes down to what's left inside you. To be able to draw deep and pull something out of yourself is one of the most tremendous things about the marathon.
There are times when you run a marathon and you wonder, Why am I doing this? But you take a drink of water, and around the next bend, you get your wind back, remember the finish line, and keep going.
It's very hard in the beginning to understand that the whole idea is not to beat the other runners. Eventually you learn that the competition is against the little voice inside you that wants you to quit.
Listen to your body. Do not be a blind and deaf tenant.
There's an old adage that for every second too fast per mile in the first half of the race, you'll run at least 2 seconds slower at the end.
Lies run sprints, but the truth runs marathons.
Few things in life match the thrill of a marathon.
The marathon is like a bullfight.
The marathon can humble you.
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.
I definitely want to show how beautiful the marathon can be. I am the opponent of all those who find the marathon bad: the psychologists, the physiologists, the doubters. I make the marathon beautiful for myself and for others. That's why I'm here.
I don't think about the miles that are coming down the road, I don't think about the mile I'm on right now, I don't think about the miles I've already covered. I think about what I'm doing right now, just being lost in the moment.
The marathon never ceases to be a race of joy, a race of wonder.
Training for a marathon is much like climbing a ladder. Each ring is a short-term goal that must be met in sequence in order to reach the long-term goal at the top of the ladder.
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