Top 1200 Marathon Man Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

As a comedian, as an entertainer, there's a lot of downtime. Once you can accept that comedy is a marathon, not a sprint, it gets a little easier.

I always do an all-night horror marathon on Saturdays where we start at seven and go until five in the morning.

I don't sleep at night at all. Making movies is a marathon. I'm a good 100-yard-dash guy.

There's always somebody doing something more extreme than you are. It used to be that if you ran the marathon, that was the end of it.

I pulled a hamstring during the New York City Marathon. An hour into the race, I jumped off the couch.

To me, drum soloing is like doing a marathon and solving equations at the same time.

Writing a book is like running a marathon. You need to be fit to do it, mentally and, as far as possible, physically.

Health is your greatest wealth, so experiencing a marathon and seeing what you're capable of is really special.

By running the N.Y.C. Marathon in 2008, I became a runner and I think that's what works the best for me and keeps my body the way I like it to be.

Imagining what a character will do in a given situation - it's like an equation, and working it out is a marathon rather than a sprint.

At the end of a marathon, it's going to hurt whether you're speeding up or slowing down. You may as well push.

When I make a live-action movie, it's a very physical process. It's like running a marathon.

When I went to the starting line of the 1976 Olympic marathon in Montreal, it was with the unsettling conviction that some of my competitors were cheaters.

I don't want to die before Will Smith 'cause then I miss that awesome 'Fresh Prince of Bel-Air' marathon.

Never run more than 3 hours straight in training, whether your marathon best is 2:42 or 4:24.

Prestigious events like the Main Event at the WSOP are marathon races. Fatigue is sure to set in.

I remember when the photograph was taken. The famous one, I mean. The one of me being rushed from the Boston Marathon bombing without my legs.

Living life is like running a marathon. It takes a lot of courage and tenacity to keep going till the end.

My thoughts and prayers go out to the thousands of marathon runners, onlookers, city officials and others affected by this senseless tragedy.

to maintain success, stamina is more important than talent. You have to learn to be a marathon runner.

I understand that people in the media want this to be a sprint every day, but the truth is a presidential campaign is a marathon.

If youre a vegan who ran a marathon & got your dogs from a shelter, how do you decide which thing to wedge into the conversation first?

I try not to be too hard on myself. My husband reminds me that life is a marathon, not a sprint.

Quitting smoking is rather a marathon than a sprint. It is not a one-time attempt, but a longer effort.

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

At 10 minutes to seven on a dark, cool evening in Mexico City in 1968, John Stephen Akwari of Tanzania painfully hobbled into the Olympic Stadium-the last man to finish the marathon. The winner had already been crowned, and the victory ceremony was long finished. So the stadium was almost empty and Akwari - alone, his leg bloody and bandaged - struggled to circle the track to the finish line. When asked why he had continued the grueling struggle, the young man from Tanzania answered softly: My country did not send me 9,000 miles to start the race. They sent me 9,000 miles to finish the race.

All my friends are usually at festivals... I just have so much adrenaline running, I literally could run a marathon after my shows.

It's like running a marathon race. We train all hours of the day. When you are taking a bath, you are thinking of the flight.

I used to run a full marathon in three hours and 25 or 26 minutes. Not any more.

I want to encourage people to make healthy life choices, whether it's training for a half-marathon, or eating more vegetables.

Directing on a 90-day schedule, whether for a TV series or a feature film, it's crazy; it's a marathon.

Playing a three-hour Rush show is like running a marathon while solving equations.

I always assumed that the reason I've never run a marathon is because I haven't bought a pair of shorts and arrived at the start line.

There is a special mystique about the marathon, for example, because of its length-but that's just the bit you do at the end of an Ironman

I do a lot of marathons as training runs. If I'm somewhere and there's a marathon, I'll sign up and just go run it.

I look at directing as a sporting event. It's a race, a marathon. It's great when it clicks, which is why I push my crews so hard so we can excel.

I ran my first marathon in Florida in 1985. I had never run more than nine miles.

Marathon running, for me, was the most controlled test of mettle that I could ever think of. It's you against Darwin.

I'd seen more cops in the last few days than on a weekend LAW and ORDER marathon" - Paigne Winterbourne

People have to realize that dieting is not a sprint, it's a marathon. If you celebrate the small victories, you will eventually win the war.

There's no way to become great overnight, but in the marathon of success, it takes a lot of intention to see you through each day of the journey.

You don't need cocaine! There's another way to get real high, and really mess your mind up, it's called marathon running!

In my bright, utopian future world, they will hand out college educations like cups of water at the end of the L.A. Marathon.

We can help the work of justice by preparing for a marathon, not a sprint. A long obedience in the same direction

Fear is a very explosive emotion, but it has a short life span. It's the sprint. The marathon is hope.

If you change your lifestyle, remember it's not a wind sprint, but it's a marathon you're embarked on, and you'll be able to stay there.

There are many pitfalls in the marathon of life. But regardless of what you go through, you can count on God's sustaining grace.

For three years, I lived in a miniscule apartment on Beacon Street, less than a mile from the Boston Marathon explosions.

Who ever would have thought that I'd be running a marathon? Certainly not me, but it's amazing where life leads you if you're willing to live passionately!

After the Boston Marathon bombings, people shared grief and outrage on social media.

A mere literary man is a dull man; a man who is solely a man of business is a selfish man; but when literature and commerce are united, they make a respectable man.

Remember why you're running your marathon. When you're struggling with those training runs that thought will help you.

To an entrepreneur, closing a financing often feels like the end of a marathon. It's actually the starting gun.

We eat and sleep and shuffle through the fog, walking a marathon with no finish line, no medals, no cheering.

When you get close to race day, there's that anticipation and excitement - it's the same whatever level you're running at because the marathon is like a festival.

I enter myself in races. I did a triathlon, and I have done a marathon a couple of times.

I think psychedelics are sort of like doing calisthenics in preparation for the marathon at the end of time.

Rincewind had always been happy to think of himself as a racist. The One Hundred Meters, the Mile, the Marathon -- he'd run them all.

Judging a child taking his first steps for not being able to run a marathon is shortsighted.

A doable goal for me is to finish a marathon under four hours. I'm doing all the training, but the hardest part is eating right.