Quote |
Author |
| If you don’t believe then who will? | Unknown |
| As we run, we become. | Amby Burfoot |
| Today I will run for pure, absolute, joy | Unknown |
| Make each day your masterpiece. | John Wooden |
| A runner is real when she takes the first step. | Unknown |
| Act like a horse. Be dumb. Just run. | Jumbo Elliot |
| There is an itch in runners. | Arnold Hano |
| Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional. | Haruki Murakami |
| The long run is what puts the tiger in the cat. | Bill Squires |
| Go fast enough to get there, but slow enough to see. | Jimmy Buffett |
| I always thought of running as just dancing forward. | Tom Hiddleston |
| Get going… Walk if you have to, but finish the damned race. | Ron Hill |
| It’s not so much that I began to run, but that I continued. | Hal Higdon |
| It’s supposed to be hard… The hard is what makes it great | Unknown |
| A runner must run with dreams in his heart. | Emil Zatopek |
| Running is my private time, my therapy, my religion. | Gail W. Kislevitz |
| Running is real and relatively simple. But it ain’t easy. | Mark Will-Weber |
| If you can’t win, make the fellow ahead of you break the record. | Unknown |
| Run often. Run long. But never outrun your joy of running. | Julie Isphording |
| Runners don’t do drugs, they make their own … naturally. | E. Neil Culbertson |
| Have a dream, make a plan, go for it. You’ll get there I promise. | Zoe Koplowitz |
| You must expect great things from yourself before you can do them. | Michael Jordan |
| I’m not as fast or flexible as I once was, but running keeps me young. | Nicole DeBoom |
| The biggest mistake an athlete can make is to be afraid of making one. | L. Ron Hubbard |
| It’s time to keep enjoying the best day in running history. | Amby Burfoot |
| Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired. | Jules Rendard |
| If you are losing faith in human nature, go out and watch a marathon. | Kathrine Switzer |
| Part of a runner’s training consists of pushing back the limits of his mind. | Kenny Moore |
| Run when you can, walk if you have to, crawl if you must; just never give up. | Dean Karnazes |
| Fast running isn’t forced. You have to relax and let the run come out of you. | Desiree Linden |
| Once you’re beat mentally, you might as well not even go to the starting line. | Todd Williams |
| The runner must be a fanatic for hard work and enthusiastic enough to enjoy it. | Franz Stampfl |
| Mental will is a muscle that needs exercise, just like the muscles of the body. | Lynn Jennings |
| I’ve learned that it’s what you do with the miles, rather than how many you’ve run. | Rod DeHaven |
| Life is complicated. Running is simple. Is it any wonder that people like to run? | Kevin Nelson |
| The miracle isn’t that I finished. The miracle is that I had the courage to start. | John Bingham |
| Tears streamed down my face as I crossed the finish line. I was a new person, a runner. | Thomas King |
| Mind is everything: muscle – pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind. | Paavo Nurmi |
| Running is the classical road to self-consciousness, self-awareness, and self-reliance. | Noel Carroll |
| Runners just do it – they run for the finish line even if someone else has reached it first. | Unknown |
| Set aside a time solely for running. Running is more fun if you don’t have to rush through it. | Jim Fixx |
| Most people run a race to see who is fastest. I run a race to see who has the most guts. | Steve Prefontaine |
| When you cross the finish line, no matter how slow or fast, it will change your life forever. | Dick Beardsley |
| The obsession with running is really an obsession with the potential for more and more life. | George Sheehan |
| You would run much slower if you were dragging something behind you, like a knapsack or a sheriff. | Lemony Snicket |
| I was born to be a runner. I simply love to run. It’s almost like the faster I go, the easier it becomes. | Mary Decker Slaney |
| Running is in my blood – the adrenaline flows before the races, the love/hat of butterflies in your stomach. | Marcus o’Sullivan |
| A race is a work of art that people can look at and be affected in as many ways they’re capable of understanding. | Steve Prefontaine |
| I’m afraid the reson so many new runners quit is because they never get past the point of feeling like they have to run. | John Bingham |
| Running has taught me to love my brain, my body, and what both can do for me when I use them wisely and appreciate them. | Meggie Smith |
