Running Quotes

You have to forget your last marathon before you try another. Your mind can't know what's coming.

I run six-to-eight miles a day, plus weights and aerobics in the lunch hour. I also lie a lot, which keeps me thin.

Avoid any diet that discourages the use of hot fudge.

Would you dance, if I asked you to dance? Would you run, and never look back? Would you cry, if you saw me crying? And would you save my soul tonight?

Keep your head up, keep your heart strong.

Whatcha gunna do when Hulkamanina and my 24 pythons run wild on you?!?!?!!?

Success isn't how far you got, but the distance you traveled from where you started.

Sailors, with their built in sense of order, service and discipline, should really be running the world.

The long run is what puts the tiger in the cat.

Your shoes are only as good as the laces they're attached to.

Life (and running) is not all about time but about our experiences along the way.

The mile has a classic symmetry....It's a play in four acts.

Above all, train hard, eat light, and avoid TV and people with negative attitudes.

I always felt free when I ran. I suppose that's what was good about it.

If you train your mind for running, everything else will be easy.

I was born to be a runner. I simply love to run. It's almost like the faster I go, the easier it becomes.

You run and you run to catch up to the sun but it's sinking, racing around to come up behind you again.

If I only ran when nothing hurt, I would never run.

Everyone is an athlete. The only difference is that some of us are in training, and some are not.

I am overwhelmed by the strength of my body and the power of my mind. For one moment, just one second, I feel immortal.

There are few instincts more natural than the body in full motion as it races across a field or through the trees.

The hourglass runs low.

Do not hate anybody, because that hatred which comes out from you must, in the long run, come back to you. If you love, that love will come back to you, completing the circle.

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

Never duck responsibility, its like running from the rain only to fall into the river.

I grew up in a dictatorship, where you couldn't talk about difficult situations - there was this culture of silence. We would run into a problem and have no one to talk to.

When we feel stuck, going nowhere-even starting to slip backward-we may actually be backing up to get a running start.

Anybody running beats anybody walking, and anybody walking beats anybody sitting.

Without humility of heart all the other virtues by which one runs toward God seem - and are - absolutely worthless.

Get over it - If you have a bad workout or run a bad race, allow yourself exactly 1 hour to stew about it-then move on.

But each time I seemed to be climbing into a roller coaster and finding myself coming through the downhill run with that sort of dazed feeling that we all know.

Run from a knife and rush a gun.

There is no such thing as an average runner. We are all above average.

Human beings are afraid of dying. They are always running after something: money, honor, and pleasure. But if you had to die now, what would you want?

I was born by the river, in a little tent, and just like the river I've been running ever since.

Not only in running but in much of life is a sense of balance and proportion necessary.

Just as with running, there were days that I didnt feel like writing; I wrote anyways.

[Scientific testing] can't determine how the mind will tolerate pain in a race. Sometimes, I say, 'Today I can die.'

This country was a lot better off when the Indians were running it.

Just do the best with what you have, and you'll soon be doing it better.

Reason #7 For Not Getting a Tattoo: People will know you are running your own life, instead of listening to them!

Relentless Forward Motion!

I go running when I have to. When the ice cream truck is doing sixty.

The first person you have to inspire every day is yourself. Running will do that.

Christmas is the season when people run out of money before they run out of friends.

Without your voice being heard in Washington, the decisions we make aren't as good. I would urge women to consider public service. And if you want to run, give me a call. I'll help.

Running is just such a monastery- a retreat, a place to commune with God and yourself, a place for psychological and spiritual renewal.

But chance runs like a river through all our lives, and being prepared for surprise is the best we can do.

It's amazing how the same pace in practice can feel so much harder than on race day. Stay confident. Trust the process.

In the long run, any words about music are less important than the music.