Top 483 Marathon Quotes & Sayings - Page 3
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Last updated on November 22, 2024.
Never run more than 3 hours straight in training, whether your marathon best is 2:42 or 4:24.
To an entrepreneur, closing a financing often feels like the end of a marathon. It's actually the starting gun.
Writing a book is like running a marathon. You need to be fit to do it, mentally and, as far as possible, physically.
I ran my first marathon in Florida in 1985. I had never run more than nine miles.
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 try not to be too hard on myself. My husband reminds me that life is a marathon, not a sprint.
Marathon running, for me, was the most controlled test of mettle that I could ever think of. It's you against Darwin.
I used to run a full marathon in three hours and 25 or 26 minutes. Not any more.
In my bright, utopian future world, they will hand out college educations like cups of water at the end of the L.A. Marathon.
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.
For three years, I lived in a miniscule apartment on Beacon Street, less than a mile from the Boston Marathon explosions.
Judging a child taking his first steps for not being able to run a marathon is shortsighted.
Living life is like running a marathon. It takes a lot of courage and tenacity to keep going till the end.
My best time is a 3:20 in Paris in 2010, and I trained to try for a 3-hour marathon in New York, but Hurricane Sandy hit, and it was canceled.
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.
Prestigious events like the Main Event at the WSOP are marathon races. Fatigue is sure to set in.
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.
My thoughts and prayers go out to the thousands of marathon runners, onlookers, city officials and others affected by this senseless tragedy.
Most people who do a lot of exercise, particularly in the form of competitive athletics, have unneurotic, extraverted, optimistic personalities to begin with. (Marathon runners are exceptions to this.)
Directing on a 90-day schedule, whether for a TV series or a feature film, it's crazy; it's 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'm pretty proud of having completed a marathon myself, so I can only imagine the pride that real athletes feel when they are picked for the Olympic or the Paralympic Games.
I pulled a hamstring during the New York City Marathon. An hour into the race, I jumped off the couch.
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.
I don't sleep at night at all. Making movies is a marathon. I'm a good 100-yard-dash guy.
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.
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 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.
'Short Term 12' was such a marathon. It's like trying to convey the same emotional depth as 'The Gambler' but with less time and a fingernail's worth of the budget.
We eat and sleep and shuffle through the fog, walking a marathon with no finish line, no medals, no cheering.
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.
I'd seen more cops in the last few days than on a weekend LAW and ORDER marathon" - Paigne Winterbourne
Remember why you're running your marathon. When you're struggling with those training runs that thought will help you.
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.
Comedy Central made me delete the Boston Marathon joke. I wasn't happy about it but, despite popular belief, I can occasionally be a team player.
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!
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.
I want to encourage people to make healthy life choices, whether it's training for a half-marathon, or eating more vegetables.
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.
Marathon runner Sophie Raworth is always trying to get me to put my running shoes back on, but I can't match her for fitness.
Most people have this perception that you have to be out there running for an hour and a half every day. But you don't have to give up your career and family to run a marathon.
NYC Marathon cancelled: runners are scrambling to find some other meaningless accomplishment to use as a proxy for control over their lives.
Health is your greatest wealth, so experiencing a marathon and seeing what you're capable of is really special.
We can help the work of justice by preparing for a marathon, not a sprint. A long obedience in the same direction
Quitting smoking is rather a marathon than a sprint. It is not a one-time attempt, but a longer effort.
All my friends are usually at festivals... I just have so much adrenaline running, I literally could run a marathon after my shows.
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.
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.
I always do an all-night horror marathon on Saturdays where we start at seven and go until five in the morning.
You don't need cocaine! There's another way to get real high, and really mess your mind up, it's called marathon running!
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.
At the end of a marathon, it's going to hurt whether you're speeding up or slowing down. You may as well push.
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.
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 think psychedelics are sort of like doing calisthenics in preparation for the marathon at the end of time.
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.
If you insist on the chase," I say, my voice much surer than I feel."Then you better start training. 'Cause, dude you're in for a marathon.
Playing a three-hour Rush show is like running a marathon while solving equations.
I don't want to die before Will Smith 'cause then I miss that awesome 'Fresh Prince of Bel-Air' marathon.
