Quotes About Running

and then he was running. Running hard like the settlers on the prairie racing to pound their stake into the hard, fertile ground of the heartland, securing their place and their children's places, the generations sprinting up under the blue sky.

He used you, yeah. But what if you hadn't come? My family would have run again, but we would never have been free. We would never stop hunting us. I know. I thought of my frustration in Paris and I couldn't even imagine how sick of running Seth must be. That's why I had to come. His eyebrow cocked upward. And here I thought you came to see me.

Running is just such a monastery- a retreat, a place to commune with God and yourself, a place for psychological and spiritual renewal.

God made me fast. And when I run, I feel His pleasure.

During the winter, you head out into the darkness for a run. When spring comes, and the first crocus pokes up its head...you know it was worthwhile.

I always tell beginning runners: Train your brain first. It's much more important than your heart or legs.

I was quite fat as a kid. And swimming is a sport you can enjoy whatever size you are. If you're fat, running is a pain. I'm not really built for running.

Running is my meditation, mind flush, cosmic telephone, mood elevator and spiritual communion.

Now I am not running to please sponsors or to be the No.1 U.S. runner. Now I look at each step I get to take as a gift. I run because I love to run. I want to be able to run until I am 90 years old.

A lot of people say they love running because of how they feel afterward. Not me. Well, I love that, too, but it's also so much fun while I'm out there.

There is no such thing as an average runner. We are all above average.

The first person you have to inspire every day is yourself. Running will do that.

When I first started running, I was so embarrassed I'd walk when cars passed me. I'd pretend I was looking at the flowers!

I am very determined and the sport is my passion. I believe I am born for running.

Anybody can be a runner. We were meant to move. We were meant to run. It's the easiest sport.

If you feel bad at 10 miles, you're in trouble. If you feel bad at 20 miles, you're normal. If you don't feel bad at 26 miles, you're abnormal.

The challenge and the energy running requires may be a selfish one, but it actually motivates me to be stronger in my relationships.

The beauty of my sport is that you can do it from anywhere.

I run because it's my passion, and not just a sport.

For me, as for so many runners, there really are no finish lines. Runs end; running doesn't.

Today I will run for pure, absolute joy!

My introduction to track racing was through the background of cross country running, which is not a sport perhaps as popular in America as it is in England.

I was playing rugby and the other games English school children do, and there was an event which was planned in which races were run, and I simply just won these by a considerable margin

I couldn't disappoint people. I did not want to fail and exhaust myself, because I was the kind of runner who trained so little that I couldn't race again within another 10 days.