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Quotes About Runners

My parents were athletes; they met at a track meet: they were runners.
~ Scott Speedman
The field is fantastic, great runners, so the best you can do is stay in control, pace yourself well, and then utilise it when you can do better.
~ Caster Semenya
My address book of dealers and private collectors, smugglers and fixers, agents, runners and the peculiar assortment of art hangers-on was longer than anyone else's in the field.
~ Thomas Hoving
Runners are the lowest of the low in film units. They're paid very, very minimal wages - probably below the national average. And runners are now being asked to drive actors about, as well as their runner duties. It's kind of the same as taking advantage of nurses - it's appalling.
~ Charles Dance
My kids are good athletes and runners. They run in a bunch of sports.
~ Scott Bakula
I nominate this shank to replace me as Keeper of the Runners.
~ James Dashner
Detection is not about finding someone and fashioning a charge that will stick to him. It's more like a footrace. One knows the winner is among the runners, but only when the others have dropped out and the race is finished will you know who it is.
~ Will Thomas
Finland has produced so many brilliant distance runners because back home it costs $2.50 a gallon for gas.
~ Esa Tikkanen
A lot of marathon runners access flow state. That's why it's so addictive: because they just get into this state where they're just completely one - they are in complete oneness. That's what happens to me when I play music and, I suppose, a lot of other people, too, which is why we do it.
~ Tash Sultana
Sam did think Appaloosas were the best. They were perfectly conformed, their markings beautiful. Most of them were short bodied and stocky, built for bursts of speed, which made them the ultimate buffalo runners.
~ Win Blevins
And he was athletic in a lean sort of way, his long legs able to keep up with me whenever I coerced him into driving me out to the zoo for their early open hours for runners only; those hills were killers on the calves.
~ Kim Harrison
The I.S. didn't teach its runners how to deal with this. Runners were runners, not murder investigators. They brought their tags in alive, even the dead ones.
~ Kim Harrison
Greyhounds are born runners, and I hope to keep them running in West Virginia for a very long time.
~ Jim Justice
When you have good runners, you always run fast. That's the motivation for me. But I have room to improve in my technique and in the start.
~ Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce
I still bother with runners I call hamburgers. They're never going to run any record times. But they can fulfill their own potential.
~ Bill Bowerman
Some runners have a constant progression, but mine was very stop and start because of injuries.
~ Mary Cain
This is what I wanted. They tell me that London is the best field in history. I wanted to be part of that. Because everyone will be there it will be a wonderful challenge for me. You can see the best runners, how they look, how they run. For me to beat the best is what counts.
~ Haile Gebrselassie
Some runners judge performance by whether they won or lost. Others define success or failure by how fast they ran. Only you can judge your performance. Avoid letting others sit in judgment of you.
~ Hal Higdon
Most major races, including the New York City Marathon, require runners to provide photo identification when picking up a bib. Most provide bibs only a few days before the race, shortening the window in which someone could copy a bib.
~ Mary Pilon
We are pathfinders on a mission, Beholders following the Light, Runners gunning for the prize and Fighters remaining focused...You have been described, do not accept any other description!
~ Jaachynma N.E. Agu
Cold is not without its risks to runners, of course, especially ones who don't head south when winter visits their neighborhood. Even pooh-pooh-ers of frozen lungs and lovers of dark jogs over permafrost have been known to be careful about certain hazards.
~ Don Kardong
You can dominate a game if you dominate on the line... We're just going to have to go out there and work hard and blow people off the ball, and let our runners do what they do best.
~ Miles Davis
African runners regularly work out in the United States and Europe, and the International Olympic Committee sends some of the cash from the Games to Olympic committees in poor nations, which use the money to finance their own programs.
~ Alex Berenson
I know runners who have suffered a tick bite and ended up with Lyme disease. I'll take an angry moose any day.
~ Don Kardong