Top 241 Runners Quotes & Sayings

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Last updated on April 14, 2025.
The medal is not for yourself. It couldn't be done without the support and help of my people, runners, and coaches
We've got a lot of people that support, but The Runners are definitely one of my favorites.
Deep down we are all still runners — © Bernd Heinrich
Deep down we are all still runners
Base runners in postseason games are kind of tough to deal with at times.
We (ultra runners) alternate between depression and stupidity.
Runners are the lowest of the low in film units. They're paid very, very minimal wages - probably below the national average. And runners are now being asked to drive actors about, as well as their runner duties. It's kind of the same as taking advantage of nurses - it's appalling.
Runners, by nature, are intentional people and normally pretty light on our feet.
Runners are poor walkers.
Overtraining is the biggest problem incurred by runners who lack the experience or discipline to cope with their own enthusiasm.
Runners are the ultimate celebration people. Running is just so intense, you're really experiencing life to the fullest.
The 3-minute mile goal is to teach runners that the impossible is where goals should be set.
It's what runners do. We keep on keeping on
Not all the Greek runners in the original Olympics were totally naked. Some wore shoes. — © Mark Twain
Not all the Greek runners in the original Olympics were totally naked. Some wore shoes.
I am very amazed by the runners out there because I like jog to the garbage can outside sometimes, and I get tired.
The Bears are front-runners. Quitters. They are not a second-half team, just a bunch of cry-babies.
If you die, I will bury you in the sandhills with all the other runners.
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.
Every athlete has doubts. Elite runners in particular are insecure people. You need someone to affirm that what you are doing is right.
Marathon runners set explicit goals.
It is suicidal for other runners to copy my hill sessions without adequate background.
I am basically a runner. It gives a 'runners high' - a feeling of euphoria and well-being which generates endorphins in the brain.
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.
Runners and yogis are alike in lots of ways, and not just because some of us need yoga to unkink what running jams. Runners and yogis are also alike because of this tortoise shell idea, this 'home' we can access inside ourselves.
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.
Have you seen a marathon race? Some runners will be leading right from the first - but after the halfway mark, it is the runners at the back who take over while the early leaders fade out.
In the race of faith, stay focused upon Christ, not the other runners, nor the spectators.
We are just not made up to be middle distance runners.
I am a better hitter with runners in scoring position.
I love CeeDee Lamb coming out of the draft. I just really did. And Amari Cooper is one of the best one-on-one route runners.
Stadiums are for spectators. We runners have Nature, and that is much better.
Is beer good for runners? Sure...if it's the other guy drinking it.
Once upon a time, about 20 years ago, runners believed they didn't have to do anything but run
So when you put the kick in and the other runners go past you, it's game over!
Sooner or later even the fastest runners have to stand and fight.
The field is fantastic, great runners, so the best you can do is stay in control, pace yourself well, and then utilise it when you can do better.
For me, as for so many runners, there really are no finish lines. Runs end; running doesn't.
I studied Tom Cruise running in all the Mission Impossibles. I think he's one of the best screen runners. — © Ben Stiller
I studied Tom Cruise running in all the Mission Impossibles. I think he's one of the best screen runners.
Everyone has stress. A good run may not erase it, but it can reduce the effect and allow runners to gain control.
The best runners every year are those who race out way too fast.
There is an expression among even the most advanced runners that getting your shoes on is the hardest part of any workout
I still bother with runners I call hamburgers. They're never going to run any record times. But they can fulfill their own potential.
Finland has produced so many brilliant distance runners because back home it costs $2.50 a gallon for gas.
It's probably the toughest distance race in the world to win. World class runners from 1500m to the marathon contest it and instead of just three runners from each country, like in the Olympics or World Championships, in the senior men's race there are nine.
Runners exalt the marathon as a public test of private will, when months or years of solitary training, early mornings, lost weekends, rain and pain mature into triumph or surrender. That's one reason the race-day crowds matter, the friends who come to cheer and stomp and flap their signs and push the runners on.
My introduction to dissociation had been at Kenneth Cooper's clinic in January of 1975. Cooper had assembled a gaggle of top American distance runners and a half dozen top researchers, the intent being to figure out what the difference was - physiologically, biomechanically, psychologically - between elite and subelite runners.
With my runners now, they get two month-long breaks during the year.
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. — © Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce
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.
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.
We have sex like Kenyan marathon runners.
Runners in the western world have a tendency to create psychological barriers for themselves, but Morceli runs at will, with no inhibitions.
Some runners have a constant progression, but mine was very stop and start because of injuries.
I think [my kids] are runners. They definitely have the background. I try to help them as much as I can.
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Greyhounds are born runners, and I hope to keep them running in West Virginia for a very long time.
Runners...you're competitive, but you want to have fun, too. You want to enjoy life. And runners really get to do that, I think-after we recover.
There is no bad weather, just soft runners.
Good try, ya bugging shank. The Gathering elects Runners, and if you think I'm tough, they'd laugh in your face.
My kids are good athletes and runners. They run in a bunch of sports.
I was a shortstop in softball, and a lot of times I had collisions with base runners coming in, so I definitely have scars.
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