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Quotes About Running

I enjoy running, especially in a new city, so when I'm on tour that's always a good option.
~ James Maslow
Well, on tour I eat terribly, so I balance that by running a lot. And then I started to run with my fans in certain cities. It sounds very nerdy and un-rock n' roll, but I like it. It's fun, and it's better than meeting fans in weird, awkward circumstances. So I take them running with me.
~ Ellie Goulding
I panic when we're on tour and feel the world can leave you behind. When we finish touring, I feel like I'm running to catch up and find out what's been happening.
~ Jamie Hince
With a smartphone in tow and a playlist humming, a runner may miss the crunch of leaves underfoot, the enthusiastic cheers of benevolent strangers, or even her own breath. And, for many runners, leaving the mobile device at home is the most liberating part of the sport.
~ Mary Pilon
What I like most about track is the feeling I get inside after a good run.
~ Steve Prefontaine
Track and field was very big when I was growing up.
~ Usain Bolt
Romance, like the rabbit at the dog track, is the elusive, fake, and never attained reward which, for the benefit and amusement of our masters, keeps us running and thinking in safe circles.
~ Beverly Jones
Your spikes, which were really quite long then, would catch the material of the track and your shoe would get heavier. I was simply filing them down and rubbing some graphite on the spikes. I thought I would run more effectively.
~ Roger Bannister
I started running track when I was 13 years old, as a freshman in high school. I ran the 400 meters, which is a very tough race and a full sprint.
~ Norah O'Donnell
In high school, my two older brothers ran track. They'd come home sweaty and mud-covered, and I could tell they enjoyed it. So I started running - I ran a mile down the road and back again - and I haven't stopped since.
~ Mika Brzezinski
I've been running since high school. My boyfriend was on the track team, and I'd run with him.
~ Jane McGonigal
In high school, I did a little track and field and ran on my own. In college, I would run every now and again, but I didn't have enough time to be devoted to it.
~ Natalie Morales
I've started listening to music in a new way after I started running. When it comes to running, I really got into the idea of track listings that way, too.
~ Jens Lekman
It is in all our interests that the arteries of global trade are kept free, open and running.
~ Philip Hammond
Now I will do nothing but listen to accrue what I hear into this song. To let sounds contribute toward it. I hear the sound I love. The sound of the human voice. I hear all sounds running together.
~ Walt Whitman
I love the ending of a movie where two people end up together. Preferably if there's rain and an airport or running or a confession of love.
~ Taylor Swift
When I run in Ethiopia, I look out and see eucalyptus trees and rivers.
~ Haile Gebrselassie
I was thinking, while I was running..." He paused. "About not hitting the trees, I hope.
~ Stephenie Meyer
Never trust a man when he's in love, drunk, or running for office.
~ Shirley MacLaine
And the Punk God of the Straight Razor is currently occupied doing something very unpleasant on the Street of the Gods. It must be something especially upsetting, because some of the gods have come running out crying.
~ Simon R. Green
I kept expecting the nurses and patients to come suddenly alive, and raise the alarm, or even attack us. Instead, the nurses stood very still, and the patients lay unmoving in their beds, like toys that weren't currently being played with. A horrible suspicion came over me, that perhaps the whole world was like this, whenever I turned my back . . . By the time we got to the far doors, I was practically running.
~ Simon R. Green
When friends asked how he was coping with his spectacular loss, he would say, 'I sleep like a baby – I wake up every ten minutes screaming!' He was advised on health grounds to take a holiday, so he went to his home in Ibiza and ran regularly on the beach. 'Someone asked me later how much I had lost. I said, "$300 million and 20lbs.
~ Siobhan Creaton
Trying to run from problems, is the same as trying to run away from our own shadow.
~ Sipho P Nkosi
Because I've always been a runner I love to feel that my body is shining on the inside. I wear baggy clothes, so it's not as though I like showing it off. I just like to know I'm great on the inside.
~ Ellie Goulding