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Quotes About Running

We're designed for persistence hunting, which is a mix of running and walking. What's built into that kind of running is a sense of pleasure. You are designed and built and perfect for this activity, and it should be enjoyable and fun.
~ Christopher McDougall
I don't think anybody running the ball, besides some running backs, like to get hit.
~ Kyler Murray
I'm interested in running for an office that would allow me the opportunity to work harder and do a better job for the citizens of this state, and I will not rule out any office that gives me that ability.
~ Nina Turner
My ex would know not to talk to me until I came back from running. I'd always be in a better place.
~ Arielle Kebbel
As a family, we were always active. Lots of walking, lots of running as well as riding bikes with dad.
~ Alistair Brownlee
When I was young you raced from one end of the street to the other, or round the block.
~ Linford Christie
When I used to go to Bombay to run, I would often meet Raj Kapoor and he would take me to RK Studio.
~ Milkha Singh
I love that place where you get in running where you're just never out of breath and you just feel like you could go forever. I love that. I love feeling strong.
~ Ann Bancroft
Like many Americans, I've always been intrigued by Bill Clinton. I obviously didn't always agree with him - enjoyed running against his legacy in 2000, when Al Gore was his designated successor, but I don't have anything negative I would say about Bill Clinton.
~ Dick Cheney
I loved running, but all of a sudden everything hurt so much. I started cycling when Zelda was born.
~ Robin Williams
My dirty little secret is that I hate running. I don't like cardio. I also really like food, and all kinds of food - bread, chocolate, all of the yummy stuff. I up my cardio quite a bit and I start cutting out carbs, sugar, and salt just to try to get as lean as I can.
~ Christopher Gorham
Beneath the Sugar Sky' is an homage to the portal fantasies of my childhood: it is the portal running in reverse.
~ Seanan McGuire
You don't want to be sore when you're running. So I wouldn't suggest you train for a marathon and do CrossFit at the same time; the two don't align with one another. When you're a runner, your body builds the muscle where it needs to build muscle.
~ Andi Dorfman
There was a period of time where the two most wanted guys in the state of Oklahoma were me and Josh Heupel. Me for suggesting that you could throw the ball at Oklahoma and in the Big 12. And Josh Heupel for having the temerity to play quarterback and not be able to run faster than 5 flat.
~ Bob Stoops
My attitude is, especially in New York, we have some pretty brutal summers in terms of humidity. So for me, if you survive a summer of running in New York City, you get your runner badge!
~ Mary Cain
For cardio, I run every Sunday.
~ Liza Soberano
You run like a herd of luminous deer, and I am dark, I am forest.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
I ran away into the dark, laughing so hard I feared I might rupture myself.
~ Ralph Ellison
Running from the birds to what, I didn't know. I ran. Why was I here at all? I ran through the night, ran within myself. Ran.
~ Ralph Ellison
For John was running, and this was terrible. Because if you ran, time ran. You yelled and screamed and raced and rolled and tumbled and all of a sudden the sun was gone and the whistle was blowing and you were on your long way home to supper. When you weren't looking, the sun got around behind you! The only way to keep things slow was to watch everything and do nothing! You could stretch a day to three days, sure, just by watching!
~ Ray Bradbury
Are you happy? she [Clarisse] said. Am I what? he [Montag] cried. But she was gone- running in the moonlight. Her front door shut gently.
~ Ray Bradbury
It was in their friendship they just wanted to run forever, shadow and shadow.
~ Ray Bradbury
You had to run with a night like this, so the sadness could not hurt.
~ Ray Bradbury
All down the way the pursued and the pursuing, the dream and the dreamers, the quarry and the hounds. All down the way the sudden revealment, the flash of familiar eyes, the cry of an old, old name. Everyone leaping forward as, like an image reflected from ten thousand mirrors, ten thousand eyes, the running dream came and went, a different face to those ahead, those behind, those yet to be met, those unseen... And here they all are now, at the boat, wanting the dream for their own.
~ Ray Bradbury