Running quotes

Running quotes

Gina Yoryet Roman

June 3^rd, 2012

Great quotes about running and life

"Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up. It knows it must outrun the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning in Africa, a lion wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the slowest gazelle, or it will starve. It doesn't matter whether you're a lion or gazelle - when the sun comes up, you'd better be running."

- Unknown

"Good things come slow - especially in distance running."

- Bill Dellinger, University of Oregon coach

"If you ever get a second chance in life for something, you've got to go all the way."

- Lance Armstrong

"Anybody can do just about anything with himself that he really wants to and makes his mind to do. We are capable of greater than we realize."

- Norman Vincent Peale, author

"Running is a big question mark that's there each and every day. It asks you, 'Are you going to be a wimp or are you going to be strong today?'"

- Peter Maher, Irish-Canadian Olympian and Sub-2:12 marathoner

"He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat."

- Napoleon Bonaparte, legendary military leader

"I still bother with runners I call hamburgers. They're never going to run any record times, but they can always fulfill their own potential."

- Bill Bowerman, legendary University of Oregon track coach

"We run, not because we think it is doing us good, but because we enjoy it and cannot help ourselves. The more restricted our society and work become, the more necessary it will be to find some outlet for this craving for freedom. No one can say, 'You must not run faster than this, or jump higher than that.' The human spirit is indomitable."

- Sir Roger Bannister, first man to break the four minute mile

"The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win."

- Sir Roger Bannister

"Most men take the straight and narrow. A few take the road less traveled. I chose to cut through the woods."

- Unknown

"Hills are speedwork in disguise."

- Frank Shorter

"There's no such thing as bad weather, just soft people."

- Bill Bowerman

"What matters is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog."

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

"How does a kid from Coos Bay, with one leg longer than the other win races? All my life people have been telling me, 'You're too small Pre', 'You're not fast enough Pre', 'Give up your foolish dream Steve'. But they forgot something, I HAVE TO WIN."

- Steve Prefontaine

"Running is the greatest metaphor for life, because you get out of it what you put into it."

- Oprah Winfrey, talk show host and marathon finisher

"You have to forget your last marathon before you try another. Your mind can't know what's coming."

- Frank Shorter

Most people run a race to see who is fastest. I run a race to see who has the most guts.

- Steve Prefontaine

"I prefer to remain in blissful ignorance of the opposition. That way I'm not frightened by anyone's reputation."

- Ian Thompson, 2:09.12 marathon at the 1974 Commonwealth Games