Kathrine Switzer Quotes

All you need is the courage to believe in yourself and put one foot in front of the other.

If you are losing faith in human nature, go out and watch a marathon.

If you feel positive, you have a sense of hope. If you have hope, you can have courage.

Life is for participating, not for spectating.

When I go to the Boston Marathon now, I have wet shoulders—women fall into my arms crying. They're weeping for joy because running has changed their lives. They feel they can do anything.

I could feel my anger dissipating as the miles went by--you can't run and stay mad!

Talent is everywhere, it only needs the opportunity.

Triumph over adversity that's what the marathon is all about. Nothing in life can't triumph after that

There is an expression among even the most advanced runners that getting your shoes on is the hardest part of any workout

I always say that talent and capability is everywhere, all it needs is opportunity.

I said that there's going to come a day in our lives when women's running is as popular and as men's. Looking back, I obviously had a great sense of vision. And I was right.

Women were afraid and they would never even imagine running a marathon in 1967.

A lack of forgiveness is a waste of time and it's very enriching to forgive and move on but those are things that come with time.

I do forgive people when they get it right, even people who in the past I thought were unforgivable.

A picture, of Jock Semple kissed me,appeared in The New York Times the next day after Boston Marathon in 1973, and the caption was "The end of an era."

1967 race in Boston changed not just my life, but millions of women's lives. There are also things that, when you get older, resonate more.