Top 241 Runners Quotes & Sayings - Page 2
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Last updated on April 19, 2025.
I have been begging our show runners to let us meet Dina's dad since Season 1 when we learned that he abandoned her at a gas station when she was a kid.
New record majority of Americans dislike the two corporate front-runners [ Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton] . This is what Lesser Evil leads to. Enough.
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.)
One skill that separates good from almost-good runners is an ability to concentrate for an entire race, whether it is a mile or a marathon.
As runners we all have the same challenges and share the same experience, with the goal to accomplish something and better ourselves.
I tell runners... that no matter how inexperienced a runner you may be, there is nothing wrong with being intense. You don't know what you might discover.
My address book of dealers and private collectors, smugglers and fixers, agents, runners and the peculiar assortment of art hangers-on was longer than anyone else's in the field.
It doesn't matter where you are, you can just put your runners on and go. When I'm travelling, it's a really good way to get to know a city - especially if you've never been there before.
Trust me, my runners aren't going to run one event while looking past it to the second event. When they get on the line for the 10K, that's a do-or-die situation for them.
Reality programming and social media make the game board bigger; they increase the number of runners on the track, each lunging at the finish line to be the first chest to hit the tape.
I let my numbers speak for themselves. I really do. I mean, all of these one-cut runners, you put their numbers up against mine, they're not even close.
Once we get into the groove, we're kind of like long-distance runners - that adrenalin kicks in for me and I just keep running - and I don't stop!
I always tell beginning runners: Train your brain first. It's much more important than your heart or legs.
Long-distance runners have to be very strange people. You have to really want to do it. You don't have to win or beat someone, you just have to get through the thing. That's the sense of victory. The sense of self-worth.
You can dominate a game if you dominate on the line... We're just going to have to go out there and work hard and blow people off the ball, and let our runners do what they do best.
I do remember the numbers runners, I do remember the poverty and bread lines. Harlem stays with you forever.
The difference between my world record and many world class runners is mental fortitude. I ran believing in mind over matter.
In TV, writers generally are the show runners, and they have enormous control over everything. In feature films, very often the writer will turn in a script and never be heard from again.
I feel like a lot of runners in the NFL: the more they get the ball, the more they get into a rhythm.
I was a torch carrier in the 2012 Paralympics and every time I thought 'I can't do this' I would look at the blade runners and the athletes and wheelchairs think, okay, I can run.
It's very hard in the beginning to understand that the whole idea is not to beat the other runners. Eventually you learn that the competition is against the little voice inside you that wants you to quit.
I want to throw my best pitch and I want to throw it a certain way, regardless of where the runners are. But it does take the catcher being able to handle that.
NYC Marathon cancelled: runners are scrambling to find some other meaningless accomplishment to use as a proxy for control over their lives.
Runners like to train 100 miles per week because it's a round number. But I think 88 is a lot rounder.
I know runners who have suffered a tick bite and ended up with Lyme disease. Ill take an angry moose any day.
I know runners who have suffered a tick bite and ended up with Lyme disease. I'll take an angry moose any day.
The reality is you don't get stand offs who are expert kickers as well as top drawer runners. The trick is to find a balance but Phil is putting a lot of guys into gaps.
Masters runners fare best when they designate every third week as a recovery week.
It's better to have ten disorganized players than ten organized runners.
When runners win a big race these days, they get a car. When I won a big race, I got a ride.
All runners are tough. Everyone has to have a little fire in them, that even in tough times, can’t be turned off.
I may not hit 50, 40 or 30 home runs, but I can do the little things like moving runners over that don't show up in the box score.
Exercise has its hazards. Runners are sidelined by shinsplints, freestylists by swimmer's ear, and who hasn't heard of tennis elbow? But the fitness buff of the '90s has a far greater worry. StairMaster Butt.
The only magic in our lives as runners is the magic of consistency. Not every run will make you feel great.
Many people are afraid of running because between 30 to 70 percent (depending on how you measure it) of runners get injured every year.
Runners are competitive folks. I think some might feel slighted they haven't got more recognition. I think they have a point. In running, you won't necessarily get noticed just for turning in good performances.
All artists have runners, people that tell them what to do, business managers, lawyers, these - if they get the right ones, they're lucky, and if they get the wrong ones, they're unlucky.
In my opinion, the best setup guys now have a tougher job than the closers. They pitch more innings, inherit more runners.
God bless those runners because they get you the first down, give you ball control and keep your defense off the field. But if you want to ring the cash register, you have to pass.
I didn't know I hit that way (.625 with runners in scoring position). Maybe not knowing is my secret. If I chased numbers, maybe I wouldn't have as good results.
In Spain, I'd taken Villarreal to league runners-up and the quarter-final and then semi-final of the Champions League.
Well, stealing bases adds some runs but very few, and you lose most of the runs that you gain by having runners caught stealing.
Musical theatre goes through cycles. I came in when it was at the absolute height of musical theatre as I remember it. It was the age of the long-runners.
My thoughts and prayers go out to the thousands of marathon runners, onlookers, city officials and others affected by this senseless tragedy.
In athletics, older runners tend to go for longer races, but it's the opposite in swimming because your body can't handle the endurance.
My guess is many top athletes, distance runners included, use performance-enhancing drugs, enough so that the problem must be tackled.
I think I got to the point where a lot of runners end up: You plan another race so you have something to focus on and that's what I do - I focus.
If I run I lose so much weight, which I need because you're limited on weight when you are a tall driver. And have you seen marathon runners? They're quite skinny.
Pardon all runners, All speechless, alien winds, All mad waters. Pardon their impulses, Their wild attitudes, Their young flights, their reticence. When a message has no clothes on How can it be spoken.
My parents were athletes; they met at a track meet: they were runners.
American athletes, especially distance runners, are at a big disadvantage against the rest of the world. We're expected to live by all the rules, like not being able to coach, but still train and make our own living.
Even for runners who never make the transition to more sophisticated workouts, easing into speedwork will lead to more enjoyable running.
There is no good runner or bad runner. We are just runners.
In fact, the bandits steal the drinks and assistance provided along the course. Worse, they cross the finish line and mess up the scoring of legitimate runners.
School cross country runs started because the rugby pitches were flooded. There was an alternative: extra studying. This meant there were plenty of runners on sports afternoons.
And, just for good measure, here are a handful of runners up:
For now the seventh summer carries you,
A wanderer, across the lands and waters.
Some species increase, others diminish, and in a short space the generations of living creatures are changed and, like runners, pass on the torch of life.
We runners are all a little nutty, but we're good people who just want to enjoy our healthy, primitive challenge. Others may not understand running, but we do, and we cherish it. That's our only message.
I admire runners older than I - they are now my heroes. I want to be like them as I grow older.
Based on my experience; I would develop fast speed before anything else. Get your young runners so they can run and teach them speed.
