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Quotes About Running

The past will only catch you, if you ran from it to begin with.
~ Nikki Rowe
I admire runners older than I - they are now my heroes. I want to be like them as I grow older.
~ Frank Shorter
If one could run without getting tired I don't think one would often want to do anything else.
~ C. S. Lewis
Running gives freedom. When you run you can determine your own tempo. You can choose your own course and think whatever you want. Nobody tells you what to do.
~ Nina Kuscsik
I ran like a champion. It is a great consolation to show how dominant I am. I am the Olympic champion and the world champion, but I want Justin Gatlin to be the champion of everything.
~ Justin Gatlin
Stupid girls run upstairs, stupid girls run upstairs," she's saying to herself, turning to pull Ben with her up the aluminum steps, Billie Jean just feet behind them
~ Stephen Graham Jones
said. "Now that he's found me again. Or he'd come himself. . . ." "Maria, why don't you just sign away the full partnership money? Tell him you'll take the twenty percent and forfeit the rest?" She looked at me. "You could stop running," I said. "I don't know," she said. "Maybe
~ Steve Hamilton
Some people create with words or with music or with a brush and paints. I like to make something beautiful when I run. I like to make people stop and say, 'I've never seen anyone run like that before.' It's more than just a race, it's a style. It's doing something better than anyone else. It's being creative.
~ Steve Prefontaine
Aliera said, "You are a Jhereg." Mario said, "You are the most beautiful woman who has ever lived, or ever will live, in the Empire or anywhere else." "Well," said Aliera. "I am," remarked Mario, "confronted by a difficult decision." "Life seems to be full of them," agreed Aliera. "What is yours?" "Whether to continue running for my life, or to stay here and look at you.
~ Steven Brust
Almost any football play, even an off-tackle slant by a running back, offers the balletic beauty of athletic skill and the punishing drama of physical collision.
~ Richard Corliss
I'm an epic nerd. My life is running and schoolwork and sleeping. And eating.
~ Mary Cain
Kids made fun of me because I was a slow learner, because I was hyperactive, because of a lot of things. Running gave me confidence.
~ Steve Prefontaine
I didn't look at age as being a reason to stop running or become slower.
~ Justin Gatlin
I can run a long distance very slowly and I do a half marathon every year.
~ Martha Nussbaum
I love to run and do it every day. I run slowly, by the way.
~ Benny Gantz
Growing up on a family farm, I know firsthand the challenges of running a small business... challenges that only seem to be growing for today's entrepreneurs.
~ Sam Graves
Being in an indie band is running a never-ending, rewarding, scary, low-margin small business.
~ Jack Conte
Sex keeps me in shape. I don't diet, I eat what I like. I love Mars bars and I smoke and drink. But I love running off in the middle of the day to make love. It really burns up calories.
~ Lisa Snowdon
Biking takes so much time. You need three hours to get in a good ride. In one hour, you can get in a good run.
~ Daniel Humm
Omul care alearg? îÈ™i simte greutatea, vârsta, este mai conÈ™tient ca oricând de sine È™i de curgerea vieÈ›ii sale.
~ Milan Kundera
That was the real secret of the Tarahumara: they'd never forgotten what it felt like to love running. They remembered that running was mankind's first fine art, our original act of inspired creation.
~ Christopher McDougall
Then there is just running - I love it. I would go out and just run a 30-mile trail run if it didn't make me feel like crap for a week.
~ Dathan Ritzenhein
I love to run and I have some tips to keep it fresh and novel. I rarely use the same route twice. That keeps things new.
~ Dean Karnazes
Hip, I murmur, remembering last night, how I lost it completely in a stall at Nell's---my mouth foaming, all I could think about were insects, lots of insects, and running at pigeons, foaming at the mouth and running at pigeons.
~ Bret Easton Ellis