Funny Running Quotes

I didn't train all that time just to come here and get it over with as fast as I can

I don't think jogging is healthy, especially morning jogging. If morning joggers knew how tempting they looked to morning motorists, they would stay home and do sit-ups.

My doctor told me that jogging could add years to my life. I think he was right. I feel ten years older already.

No doubt a brain and some shoes are essential for marathon success, although if it comes down to a choice, pick the shoes. More people finish marathons with no brains than with no shoes.

A lot of people say they love running because of how they feel afterward. Not me. Well, I love that, too, but it's also so much fun while I'm out there.

I believe that the Good Lord gave us a finite number of heartbeats and I'm damned if I'm going to use up mine running up and down a street.

When I first started running, I was so embarrassed I'd walk when cars passed me. I'd pretend I was looking at the flowers!

The real competition is against the little voice inside you that wants to quit

If you're feeling good, don't worry. You'll get over it.

Trample the weak. Hurdle the dead.

I am going to go out a winner if I have to find a high school race to win my last race.

Run hard, be strong, think big!

You have to forget your last marathon before you try another. Your mind can't know what's coming.

In golf, as in life, you get out of it what you put into it.

Good things come slow, especially in distance running.

It hurts up to a point and then it doesn't get any worse.

Go in any direction..seeking out new sights just on the strength of your feet and the courage of your lungs.

Running is the greatest metaphor for life, because you get out of it what you put into it.

I had as many doubts as anyone else. Standing on the starting line, we're all cowards.

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.

Running is special. We've all done it: well, poorly, focused, in fear, being pursued, toward a goal. It's just elemental. Running is like fire.

It's unnatural for people to run around the city streets unless they are thieves or victims. It makes people nervous to see someone running. I know that when I see someone running on my street, my instincts tell me to let the dog go after him.

I think people can handle 150 to 200 miles a week. But something has to give somewhere. If he's a student, how's he going to study? He may be at the age of chasing and courtship, and that's an important form of sport and recreation, too.

Racing teaches us to challenge ourselves. It teaches us to push beyond where we thought we could go. It helps us to find out what we are made of. This is what we do. This is what it's all about.

If you can't win, make the one ahead of you break the record.

If you run 100 miles a week, you can eat anything you want - Why? Because (a) you'll burn all the calories you consume, (b) you deserve it, and (c) you'll be injured soon and back on a restricted diet anyway.

The only reason I would take up jogging is so that I could hear heavy breathing again.

Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up, it knows it must outrun the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning in Africa, a lion wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the slowest gazelle, or it will starve. It doesn't matter whether you're the lion or a gazelle-when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.

Don't bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself.

I run so my goals in life will continue to get bigger instead of my belly.

Are you tired? You should be! You've been running through my mind all day.

I run to see who has the most guts.

Ask yourself: 'Can I give more?'. The answer is usually: 'Yes'.

Run when you can, walk if you have to, crawl if you must; just never give up.

Your body will argue that there is no justifiable reason to continue. Your only recourse is to call on your spirit, which fortunately functions independently of logic.

You have to wonder at times what you're doing out there. Over the years, I've given myself a thousand reasons to keep running, but it always comes back to where it started. It comes down to self-satisfaction and a sense of achievement.

I've always felt that long, slow distance produces long, slow runners.

I always loved running... it was something you could do by yourself, and under your own power. You could go in any direction, fast or slow as you wanted, fighting the wind if you felt like it, seeking out new sights just on the strength of your feet and the courage of your lungs.

I always loved running.... It was something you could do by yourself and under your own power.

Make the mind run the body. Never let the body tell the mind what to do. The body will always give up.

Now if you are going to win any battle you have to do one thing. You have to make the mind run the body. Never let the body tell the mind what to do. The body will always give up. It is always tired morning, noon, and night. But the body is never tired if the mind is not tired. When you were younger the mind could make you dance all night, and the body was never tired... You've always got to make the mind take over and keep going.

Run like hell and get the agony over with.

There's no such thing as bad weather - only the wrong clothes.

There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

There's no such thing as bad weather, only inappropriate clothing

There's no such thing as bad weather, just soft people.

Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.

Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second.