Top 699 Marathon Runners Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

The marathon can humble you.

Base runners in postseason games are kind of tough to deal with at times.

There is no bad weather, just soft runners.

It is suicidal for other runners to copy my hill sessions without adequate background.

Is beer good for runners? Sure...if it's the other guy drinking it.

I was really unfit for a while, so once I began running, I developed an obsession with it and started feeling really good. Then I thought I'd run a marathon after watching the London Marathon on TV. So I did it and had a good time. And then I ended up doing a bunch, and I was like, 'What if I could go further?' So I found out about Ultra Marathons.

For me, as for so many runners, there really are no finish lines. Runs end; running doesn't.

Deep down we are all still runners

The Bears are front-runners. Quitters. They are not a second-half team, just a bunch of cry-babies.

Life’s a marathon, not a sprint.

Once upon a time, about 20 years ago, runners believed they didn't have to do anything but run

Runners are poor walkers.

Not all the Greek runners in the original Olympics were totally naked. Some wore shoes.

You entered a marathon with hills? You idiot.

Overtraining is the biggest problem incurred by runners who lack the experience or discipline to cope with their own enthusiasm.

My kids are good athletes and runners. They run in a bunch of sports.

I studied Tom Cruise running in all the Mission Impossibles. I think he's one of the best screen runners.

In the marathon anything can happen.

Ultimately, the best runners are the ones who are willing to work very hard but who have a little bit of a lazy streak in them.

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

The 3-minute mile goal is to teach runners that the impossible is where goals should be set.

If you’ve given a dollar, you are part of the Marathon of Hope .

It's what runners do. We keep on keeping on

At the finish line of the 1967 Boston Marathon, one crabby journalist said it was just a one-off deal and women weren't going to run. Only a 20-year-old who had just run a marathon and was shot full of endorphin would say this but I said that there's going to come a day in our lives when women's running is as popular and as men's.

You can run a sprint or your can run a marathon, but you can't sprint a marathon.

The human race is the most stupid and unfair kind of race. A lot of the runners don't even get decent sneakers or clean drinking water. Some runners are born with a massive head start, every possible help along the way and still the referees seem to be on their side. It's not surprising a lot of people have given up compeating altogether and gone to sit in the grandstand, eat junk and shout abuse. What the human race needs is a lot more streakers.

The medal is not for yourself. It couldn't be done without the support and help of my people, runners, and coaches

We (ultra runners) alternate between depression and stupidity.

We are just not made up to be middle distance runners.

Greyhounds are born runners, and I hope to keep them running in West Virginia for a very long time.

Sooner or later even the fastest runners have to stand and fight.

WINNER:is A Runner who “Wins Inspite Of Ninety Nine Excellent Runners!

Writing is a marathon, not a sprint.

In the race of faith, stay focused upon Christ, not the other runners, nor the spectators.

With my runners now, they get two month-long breaks during the year.

Everyone has stress. A good run may not erase it, but it can reduce the effect and allow runners to gain control.

I finished a marathon.

I just imagine all the other runners are big spiders, and then I get super scared.

We're not home-and-hearth people. We're the adventurers, the buccaneers, the blockade runners. Without challenge, we're only alive.

Some runners have a constant progression, but mine was very stop and start because of injuries.

The marathon is an art; the marathoner is an artist.

Runners in the western world have a tendency to create psychological barriers for themselves, but Morceli runs at will, with no inhibitions.

The race of life is a marathon, not a sprint.

A novel takes the courage of a marathon runner, and as long as you have to run, you might as well be a winning marathon runner. Serendipity and blind faith faith in yourself won't hurt a thing. All the bastards in the world will snicker and sneer because they haven't the talent to zip up their flies by themselves. To hell with them, particularly the critics. Stand in there, son, no matter how badly you are battered and hurt.

Everyone wins the marathon. We all have the same feeling at the start-nervous, anxious, excited. It is a broader, richer, and even with twenty-seven thousand people-more intimate experience than I found when racing in track. New York is the marathon that all the biggest stars want to win, but has also been the stage for an array of human stories more vast than any other sporting event.

A Marathon is not about running, it is about salvation. We spend so much of our lives doubting ourselves, thinking we're not good enough, not strong enough, not made of the right stuff. The Marathon is an opportunity for redemption. "Opportunity," because the outcome is uncertain. "Opportunity," because it is up to you, and only you, to make it happen; only you can turn your farfetched dream into a reality.

I think [my kids] are runners. They definitely have the background. I try to help them as much as I can.

The marathon is like a bullfight.

When you have good runners, you always run fast. That's the motivation for me. But I have room to improve in my technique and in the start.

If you die, I will bury you in the sandhills with all the other runners.

Runners are the ultimate celebration people. Running is just so intense, you're really experiencing life to the fullest.

The best runners every year are those who race out way too fast.

Runners, by nature, are intentional people and normally pretty light on our feet.

So when you put the kick in and the other runners go past you, it's game over!

In the marathon of life, there is no finish line.

I may never be happy, but tonight I am content. Nothing more than an empty house, the warm hazy weariness from a day spent setting strawberry runners in the sun, a glass of cool sweet milk, and a shallow dish of blueberries bathed in cream. When one is so tired at the end of a day one must sleep, and at the next dawn there are more strawberry runners to set, and so one goes on living, near the earth. At times like this I'd call myself a fool to ask for more.

I am a better hitter with runners in scoring position.

I ran my fastest marathon in the rain.

We've got a lot of people that support, but The Runners are definitely one of my favorites.

I was a shortstop in softball, and a lot of times I had collisions with base runners coming in, so I definitely have scars.