Running Quotes – A Collation Of Over 200 Sayings

by allinspiration.com

“Do a little more each day than you think you possibly can.”
– LowellThomas

“The footing was really atrocious. I loved it. I really like Cross Country; you’re one with the mud.”
– Lynn Jennings

“The freedom of Cross Country is so primitive. It’s woman vs. nature.”
– Lynn Jennings

“All it takes is all you got.”
– Marc Davis

“But most of all I was inspired by the stirring examples of all the other runners. In some pictures they would seem like tiny dots in a mosaic, but each had a separate narrative starting a few months or a lifetime earlier and finishing that day in the New York City Marathon, the race with 37,000 stories.”
– Mark Sutcliffe

“Good judgment is the result of experience, experience is the result of bad judgment.”
– Mark Twain

“Running is real and relatively simple…but it ain’t easy.”
– Mark WillWeber

“As we walk back, it feels like the city is engulfing us. Adrenalin still pours through our veins. Sparks flow through to our fingers. We’ve still been running in the mornings, but the city’s different then. It’s filled with hope and with bristles of winter sunshine. In the evening, it’s like it dies, waiting to be born again the next morning.”
– Markus Zusak

“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.”
– Martin Luther King, Jr.

“But I also realize that winning doesn’t always mean getting first place; it means getting the best out of yourself.”
– Meb Keflezighi

“It does no good to run. And it does no good to hide. But I know what it’s like. Your brain shuts down, and you follow your instincts. Or, at least, you.”
– Mike Carey & Peter Gross

“I thought about the days I had handed over to a bottle..the nights I can’t remember..the mornings I slept thru..all the time spent running from myself.”
– Mitch Albom

“Life equals running and when we stop running maybe that’s how we’ll know life is finally finished.”
– Patrick Ness

“Running isn’t a sport for pretty boys…It’s about the sweat in your hair and the blisters on your feet. Its the frozen spit on your chin and the nausea in your gut. It’s about throbbing calves and cramps at midnight that are strong enough to wake the dead. It’s about getting out the door and running when the rest of the world is only dreaming about having the passion that you need to live each and every day with. It’s about being on a lonely road and running like a champion even when there’s not a single soul in sight to cheer you on. Running is all about having the desire to train and persevere until every fiber in your legs, mind, and heart is turned to steel. And when you’ve finally forged hard enough, you will have become the best runner you can be. And that’s all that you can ask for.”
– Paul Maurer

“Running is a big question mark that’s there each and every day. It asks you, ‘Are you going to be a wimp or are you going to be strong today?’”
– Peter Maher

“When it’s pouring rain and you’re bowling along through the wet, there’s satisfaction in knowing you’re out there and the others aren’t.”
– Peter Snell

“The father hesitated only a moment. He felt the vague pain in his chest. If I run, he thought, what will happen? Is Death important? No. Everything that happens before Death is what counts. And we’ve done fine tonight. Even Death can’t spoil it.”
– Ray Bradbury

“Beckendorf, whose legs were now working fine (nothing like being chased by a huge monster to get your body back in order) shook his head and gasped for breath. “You shouldn’t have turned it on! It’s unstable! After a few years, automatons go wild!”
– Rick Riordan

“After joyfully working each morning, I would leave off around midday to challenge myself to a footrace. Speeding along the sunny paths of the Jardin du Luxembourg, ideas would breed like aphids in my head—for creative invention is easy and sublime when air cycles quickly through the lungs and the body is busy at noble tasks.”
– Roman Payne

“If you want to make God laugh, just try and make plans for the future.”
– Ron Litzler

“I don’t run to add days to my life, I run to add life to my days.”
– Ronald Rook

“A typical race morning usually starts out looking like a scene from a zombie movie: individuals or pairs of people walking down a deserted street, all headed in the same direction…. Inevitably, regardless of the weather, U2′s “Beautiful Day” streams out of loudspeakers.”
– Sarah Bowen Shea

“And then there’s the perverse joy of subtly working in references to marathon training in daily life, say at the post office or while waiting outside my first-graders’ classrooms at the end of the school day.”
– Sarah Bowen Shea

“‘I don’t get it,’ Caroline said, bemused. ‘She’s the only one with wings. Why is that?’”
– Sarah Dessen

“The great thing about athletics is that it’s like poker, sometimes you know what’s in your hand and it may be a load of rubbish, but you’ve got to keep up the front.”
– Sebastian Coe

“The nine inches right here; set it straight and you can beat anybody in the world.”
– Sebastian Coe

“Tomorrow is another day, and there will be another battle!”
– Sebastian Coe

“It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.”
– Seneca

“Other people may not have high expectations of me, but I have high expectations for myself.”
– Shannon Miller

“A substantial daily intake of alcohol was the perfect way to stay in shape.”
– Simon NapierBell

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