Running Quotes – A Collation Of Over 200 Sayings

by allinspiration.com

“My feeling is that any day I am too busy to run is a day that I am too busy.”
– John Bryant

“Running to him was real; the way he did it the realest thing he knew. It was all joy and woe, hard as a diamond; it made him weary beyond comprehension. But it also made him free.”
– John L. Parker Jr.

“He wanted to impart some of the truths Bruce Denton had taught him, that you don’t become a runner by winning a morning workout. The only true way is to marshal the ferocity of your ambition over the course of many days, weeks, months, and (if you could finally come to accept it) years. The Trial of Miles; Miles of Trials. How could he make them understand?”
– John L. Parker Jr.

“Hey listen, I already have a complete list of silver linings. It’s the goddamn cloud that’s killin me.”
– John L. Parker Jr.

“At paces that might stun and dismay the religious jogger, the runners easily kept up all manner of chatter and horseplay. When they occasionally blew by a huffing fatty or an aging road runner, they automatically toned down the banter to avoid overwhelming, to preclude the appearance of show boating (not that they slowed in the slightest). They in fact respected these distant cousins of the spirit, who, among all people, had some modicum of insight into their own days and ways. But the runners resembled them only in the sense that a puma resembles a pussy cat. It is the difference between stretching lazily on the carpet and prowling the jungle for fresh red meat.”
– John L. Parker Jr.

“Cassidy’s heart tried to leap out through his taught skin and hop into his wet hands. But outwardly it was all very calm, very serene, just as always, and it seemed to last a tiny forever, just like that, a snapshot of them all on the curved parabola of a starting line, eight giant hearts attached to eight pairs of bellows-like lungs mounted on eight pairs of supercharged stilts. They were poised on the edge of some howling vortex they had run 10,000 miles to get to. Now they had to run one more”
– John L. Parker Jr.

“…Or we can blaze! Become legends in our own time, strike fear in the heart of mediocre talent everywhere! We can scald dogs, put records out of reach! Make the stands gasp as we blow into an unearthly kick from three hundred yards out! We can become God’s own messengers delivering the dreaded scrolls! We can race dark Satan himself till he wheezes fiery cinders down the back straightaway….They’ll speak our names in hushed tones, ‘those guys are animals‘ they’ll say! We can lay it on the line, bust a gut, show them a clean pair of heels. We can sprint the turn on a spring breeze and feel the winter leave our feet! We can, by God, let our demons loose and just wail on!”
– John L. Parker Jr.

“He ran his hand up and down his left achilles tendon. Very tender; better pay attention to it and back off if it gets any worse. Maybe ice it. The old Injury Evasion Fandango. Did it ever end?”
– John L. Parker Jr.

“He was filled with loss and an off-brand of nostalgia for events that were supposed to become part of his past but now wouldn’t at all. In the mind‘s special processes, a ten-mile run takes far longer than the minutes reported by a grandfather clock. Such time, in fact, hardly exists in the real world; it is all out on the train somewhere, and you only go back to it when you are out there. He and Mize had been through two solid years of such regular time-warp escapes together. There was something different about that, something beyond friendship; they had a way of transferring pain back and forth, without the banality of words.”
– John L. Parker Jr.

“There was no let-up. The tempo was always moderate but steady. If a new guy decided to pick up the pace, that’s where it stayed, whether he finished with the group or not. You showed off at your peril.”
– John L. Parker Jr.

“Though Jack Nubbins was extremely talented, Quenten Cassidy had viewed the Specter; when he reached down through the familiar layers of gloom and fatigue he generally found more there than a nameless and transient desire to acquire plastic trophies. He and Nubbins were not even in the same ball park.”
– John L. Parker Jr.

“You got one guy going boom, one guy going whack, and one guy not getting in the endzone.”
– John Madden

“I don’t think my moped could outrun a cheetah.”
– Jonathan Messinger

“Running! If there’s any activity happier, more exhilarating, more nourishing to the imagination, I can’t think of what it might be. In running the mind flees with the body, the mysterious efflorescence of language seems to pulse in the brain, in rhythm with our feet and the swinging of our arms.”
– Joyce Carol Oates

“Stadiums are for spectators. We runners have nature and that is much better.”
– Juha Vaatainen

“Cowards die many times before their deaths, the valiant never taste death but once.”
– Julius Ceaser

“He ran as he’d never run before, with neither hope nor despair. He ran because the world was divided into opposites and his side had already been chosen for him, his only choice being whether or not to play his part with heart and courage. He ran because fate had placed him in a position of responsibility and he had accepted the burden. He ran because his self-respect required it. He ran because he loved his friends and this was the only thing he could do to end the madness that was killing and maiming them.”
– Karl Marlantes

“If you are losing faith in human nature, go out and watch a marathon.”
– Kathrine Switzer

“I could feel my anger dissipating as the miles went by–you can’t run and stay mad!”
– Kathrine Switzer

“When I go to the Boston Marathon now, I have wet shoulders—women fall into my arms crying. They’re weeping for joy because running has changed their lives. They feel they can do anything.”
– Kathrine Switzer

“Every day is a good day when you run.”
– Kevin Nelson

“We’re still on the run. That’s for sure.”
– Koushun Takami

“Whatever you may be missing right now – a person, a place, a feeling, maybe you are injured and missing running – whatever it is, have peace and take heart – remember that any goodbye makes room for a hello.”
– Kristin Armstrong

“There is something magical about running; after a certain distance, it transcends the body. Then a bit further, it transcends the mind. A bit further yet, and what you have before you, laid bare, is the soul.”
– Kristin Armstrong

“I told her running away from your problems doesn’t solve anything. Really it just hurts the people who count on you.”
– Kyle Beachy

“An itchy feeling began to work its way through my body, as though a thousand mosquitoes were circulating through my blood, biting me from the inside, making me want to scream, jump, squirm.”
– Lauren Oliver

“Running is a mental sport, more than anything else. You’re only as good as your training, and your training is only as good as your thinking.”
– Lauren Oliver

“You would run much slower if you were dragging something behind you, like a knapsack or a sheriff.”
– Lemony Snicket

“Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss it you will land among the stars”
– Les Brown

“She raced for him, propelled by the strength of a thousand regrets.”
– Lisi Harrison

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