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If you run, you are a runner. It doesn't matter how fast or how far. It doesn't matter if today is your first day or if you've been running for twenty years. There is no test to pass, no license to earn, no membership card to get. You just run.
Sep 19, 2025
The important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle.
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.
The obsession with running is really an obsession with the potential for more and more life.
It hurts up to a point and then it doesn't get any worse.
If you want to become the best runner you can be, start now. Don't spend the rest of your life wondering if you can do it.
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.
How to run an ultramarathon ? Puff out your chest, put one foot in front of the other, and don't stop till you cross the finish line.
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.
It's at the borders of pain and suffering that the men are separated from the boys.
The only way to define your limits is by going beyond them.
The human body is capable of amazing physical deeds. If we could just free ourselves from our perceived limitations and tap into our internal fire, the possibilities are endless.
It doesn't matter whether you are a lion or a gazelle. When the sun comes up, you better be running.
Ask yourself: 'Can I give more?'. The answer is usually: 'Yes'.
Mental will is a muscle that needs exercise, just like the muscles of the body.
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.
The woods are lovely, dark, and deep but I have promises to keep...
Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep.
Just put one foot in front of the other.
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.
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
It is not the critic who counts...The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena.
It is not the critic who counts
So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; . . . who at best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly.
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