Running Quotes – A Collation Of Over 200 Sayings

by allinspiration.com

“In the year 2025, the best men don’t run for president, they run for their lives. . . .”
– Stephen King

“He understood well enough how a man with a choice between pride and responsibility will almost always choose pride–if responsibility robs him of his manhood.”
– Stephen King

“Outside, daylight was bleeding slowly toward dusk.”
– Stephen King

“The woman had looked into the abyss and then walked out across it.”
– Stephen King

“He had never been a social man. He had shunned causes with contempt and disgust. They were for pig-simple suckers and people with too much time and money on their hands.”
– Stephen King

“He removed his unvaluable valuables and dumped his shirt, pants, and skivvies into a letter slot.”
– Stephen King

“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.”
– Steve Prefontaine

“Searching for nothing. Wondering if I’ll change. I’m trying everything. But everything still stays the same. I thought if I showed you I could fly. Wouldn’t need anyone by my side. I’m running backwards. With broken wings I know I’ll die.”
– Sully Erna

“Kim was, as always, utterly happy while running, in accord with nature, in harmony with the universe, in touch with the truth that was in him, full of love for all creatures even to the lowliest insect.”
– Susan Trott

“Champions do not become champions when they win the event, but in the hours, weeks, months and years they spend preparing for it. The victorious performance itself is merely the demonstration of their championship character.”
– T. Alan Armstrong

“My mother always said – “Never run after a man or a bus – there is always another one coming.”
– Tessa Kiros

“When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.”
– Theodore Roosevelt

“Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.”
– Thomas Jefferson

“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.”
– Tim Noakes

“Once you’re beat mentally, you might as well not even go to the starting line.”
– Todd Williams

“If you want to win a race, you have to go a little berserk.”
– Unknown

“Some people don’t have the guts for distance racing. The polite term for them is sprinters.”
– Unknown

“The will to win is worthless, without the will to prepare.”
– Unknown

“There is no time to think about how much I hurt; there is only time to run.”
– Unknown

“When people ask me why I run, I tell them, there’s not really a reason, it’s just the adrenalin when you start, and the feeling when you cross that finish line, and know that you are a winner no matter what place you got.”
– Unknown

“The idea that the harder you work, the better you’re going to be is just garbage. The greatest improvement is made by the man or woman who works most intelligently.”
– Unknown

“We are different, in essence, from other men. If you want to win something, run 100 meters. If you want to experience something, run a marathon.”
– Unknown

“Endurance is more than just competing, it’s more than just running, it’s a lifestyle of no easy options!”
– Unknown

“In a country where only men are encouraged, one must be one’s own inspiration.”
– Unknown

“People don’t know why we run, but it’s the hard work you put into practice, and the reward you get from the race.”
– Unknown

“…the real purpose of running isn’t to win a race. It’s to test the limits of the human heart.”
– Unknown

“If you’re on the treadmill next to me, the answer is YES, we are racing.”
– Unknown

“Intelligent coaching is sometimes no coaching.”
– Unknown

“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. Nobody is going to win a 5,000 meter race after running an easy 2 miles. Not with me. If I loose forcing the pace all the way, well, at least I can live with myself.”
– Unknown

“A race is a work of art that people can look at and be affected in as many ways they’re capable of understanding.”
– Unknown

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