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Quotes About Running

As I've been able to once again gain the benefits of speed work, I'm enjoying my running more and more.
~ Frank Shorter
I could produce spurts of speed and after taking up athletics I found myself running quite quickly over 400m.
~ Michael East
Humans are built for endurance, not speed. We're awful sprinters compared to every other animal. We try to run our races as if they were speed races, but they are not. They're endurance races. Even a marathon, the way it's run now, it's not an endurance contest.
~ Christopher McDougall
Generally, speed skaters don't run that much. I'm a little bit of an exception in that I run a lot.
~ Apolo Ohno
You must be fast enough - you must have endurance. So you run fast for speed and repeat it many times for endurance.
~ Emil Zatopek
Adrian Peterson has home-run speed.
~ Shannon Sharpe
Some running backs do different things to get away. My move is to spin.
~ Le'Veon Bell
Arguments could fill a marriage like water, running through everything, always, with no taste or color but lots of noise.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
My experience has proved that a man who is running for office, and is not willing to make his honest opinions known to the public, either has no honest opinions or is not honest about them.
~ William Randolph Hearst
Endurance? You've only got to get out there and do it. Face up to it: man was meant to run.
~ Percy Cerutty
Man alone measures time. Man alone chimes the hour. And, because of this, man alone suffers a paralysing fear that no other creature endures. A fear of time running out.
~ Mitch Albom
So that's the ghost you been running from.
~ Nicholas Sparks
I began running half-marathons and it helped my fundraising for the multiple sclerosis society and others.
~ Milind Soman
To me, running is almost like multitasking. You get to people-watch or tour a city that you've never been in while exercising.
~ Andi Dorfman
My mum's a good runner, so is my granddad. We're a big sporting family.
~ Cameron Norrie
I never run hills. My quads are already big enough. I don't run to build muscle; I do it for cardio.
~ Lisa Ling
I tend to build bulk and muscle easily, and running seems to make sure I stay kind of stringy, if that makes sense.
~ Apolo Ohno
Running is my time for myself. I'm like, 'I'm going for a run!' and my husband knows I'm out of there.
~ Laila Ali
Cycling keeps me lean and I need to stay in shape, especially as I still like eating chocolate and ice-cream! I like to go mountain biking too. Running is also good; it's what we were designed to do as humans, so it comes naturally.
~ Mark Webber
If someone tells me that I've hurt their feelings, I say, 'I'm still waiting to hear what your point is.' In this country, I've been told, 'That's offensive' as if those two words constitute an argument or a comment. Not to me they don't. And I'm not running for anything, so I don't have to pretend to like people when I don't.
~ Christopher Hitchens
Which goes to show you, right there, the difference between sailors and marines: marines are fucking stupid. Running when you don't have to.
~ Christopher Moore
The hourglass runs low...
~ Christopher Pike
The barber ran to the broken window, and saw Gavroche, who was running with all his might towards the Saint Jean market. On passing the barber's shop, Gavroche, who had the two children on his mind, could not resist the desire to bid him good day, and had sent a stone through his sash. See! screamed the barber, who from white had become blue, he makes mischief. What has anybody done to this Gamin?
~ Victor Hugo
Hay una manera de huir que parece buscar.
~ Victor Hugo