Great Running Quotes

Some people feel 'transformed' from the first day they begin running; others feel that it's just plain hard work. Most of us realize it is both. I know how great running can feel, but I also know it can feel not so great, even downright awful! It can be fun, but it takes work to have that fun.

Most runners run not because they want to live longer, but because they want to live life to the fullest.

You are capable of so much more than we usually dare to imagine

The will to win means nothing without the will to prepare.

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

To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift.

The miracle isn't that I finished. The miracle is that I had the courage to start.

A lot of people run a race to see who is fastest. I run to see who has the most guts, who can punish himself into exhausting pace, and then at the end, punish himself even more.

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.

The essential thing in life is not so much conquering as fighting well.

If you become restless, speed up. If you become winded, slow down. You climb the mountain in an equilibrium between restlessness and exhaustion.

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.

The gun goes off and everthing changes... the world changes... and nothing else really matters.

Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose.

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.

Some people create with words or with music or with a brush and paints. I like to make something beautiful when I run

Life is often compared to a marathon, but I think it is more like being a sprinter; long stretches of hard work punctuated by brief moments in which we are given the opportunity to perform at our best.

The marathon can humble you.

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.

A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.

A lot of people don't realize that about 98 percent of the running I put in is anything but glamorous: 2 percent joyful participation, 98 percent dedication! It's a tough formula. Getting out in the forest in the biting cold and the flattening heat, and putting in kilometer after kilometer.

Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.

People there’s a new sheriff in town. One of the great running backs in line of Pittsburgh Steelers [and] his name is Le’Veon Bell. He’s on his way people.

Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.

It's elevating and humbling at the same time. Running along a beach at sunrise with no other footprints in the sand, you realize the vastness of creation, your own insignificant space in the plan, how tiny you really are, your own creatureliness and how much you owe to the supreme body, the God that brought all this beauty and harmony into being.

Believe in yourself, know yourself, deny yourself, and be humble.

Some people create with words or with music or with a brush and paints. I like to make something beautiful when I run. I like to make people stop and say, 'I've never seen anyone run like that before.' It's more than just a race, it's a style. It's doing something better than anyone else. It's being creative.

I like to make something beautiful when I run ... it's style. It's doing something better than anyone else. It's being creative.

Don’t be afraid to give up the good for the great.

Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.

I run to see who has the most guts.

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

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.

My thoughts before a big race are usually pretty simple. I tell myself: Get out of the blocks, run your race, stay relaxed. If you run your race, you'll win... channel your energy. Focus.

There are as many reasons for running as there are days in the year, years in my life. But mostly I run because I am an animal and a child, an artist and a saint. So, too, are you. Find your own play, your own self-renewing compulsion, and you will become the person you are meant to be.

Running is not, as it so often seems, only about what you did in your last race or about how many miles you ran last week. It is, in a much more important way, about community, about appreciating all the miles run by other runners, too.

Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.

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 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.

But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep.

Everyone who has run knows that its most important value is in removing tension and allowing a release from whatever other cares the day may bring.

To describe the agony of a marathon to someone who's never run it is like trying to explain color to someone who was born blind.

My whole feeling in terms of racing is that you have to be very bold. You sometimes have to be aggressive and gamble.

It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.

Just put one foot in front of the other.

The harder I work the more I live.

Attitude determines how well you do it.

Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.