Quotes about running
running athlete moments
Running makes you an athlete in all areas of life...trained in the basics, prepared for whatever comes, ready to fill each hour and deal with the decisive moment. George A. Sheehan
running way becoming
Fitness is just a stage you pass through on the way to becoming a racer.
running trying endurance
We who run...are different from those who merely study us. We are out there experiencing what they are trying to put into words.
running spiritual retreat
Running is just such a monastery- a retreat, a place to commune with God and yourself, a place for psychological and spiritual renewal.
running heart miracle
And while these pounds were being shed, while the physiological miracles were occurring with the heart and muscle and metabolism, psychological marvels were taking place as well. Just so, the world over, bodies, minds, and souls are constantly being born again, during miles on the road.
running race important
The most important thing I learned [from running] is that there is only one runner in this race, and that is me.
running winning winner
Once you have decided that winning isn't everything, you become a winner.
running perfect found
The true runner is a very fortunate person. He has found something in him that is just perfect.
running differences jogging
The difference between a jogger and a runner is an entry blank.
running pain athlete
To keep from decaying, to be a winner, the athlete must accept pain - not only accept it, but look for it, live with it, learn not to fear it.
running hero mets
I have met my hero, and he is me.
running desire deep-within
The desire to run comes from deep within us - from the unconscious, the instinctive, the intuitive.
running obsession track-runners
The obsession with running is really an obsession with the potential for more and more life.
running rain bird
For every runner who tours the world running marathons, there are thousands who run to hear the leaves and listen to the rain, and look to the day when it is suddenly as easy as a bird in flight.
running hurt thinking
Some think guts is sprinting at the end of a race. But guts is what got you there to begin with. Guts start back in the hills with 6 miles to go and you're thinking of how you can get out of this race without anyone noticing. Guts begin when you still have forty minutes of torture left and you're already hurting more than you ever remember.
running games victory
Life is a positive-sum game. Everyone from the gold medallist to the last finisher can rejoice in a personal victory.
running giving-up men
Nothing is more certain than the defeat of a man who gives up.
running real voice
The real competition is against the little voice inside you that wants to quit
running discovery self
Out on the roads there is fitness and self-discovery and the persons we were destined to be.
running drama race
No matter how old I get, the race remains one of life's most rewarding experiences. My times become slower and slower, but the experience of the race is unchanged: each race a drama, each race a challenge, each race stretching me in one way or another, and each race telling me more about myself and others.
running sweat showers
Sweat cleanses from the inside. It comes from places a shower will never reach.
running believe athlete
To know you are one with what you are doing, to know that you are a complete athlete, begins with believing you are a runner.
running body marathon
Listen to your body. Do not be a blind and deaf tenant.
running athlete differences
Everyone is an athlete. The only difference is that some of us are in training, and some are not.
running answers bigs
The answer to the big questions in running is the same as the answer to the big questions in life: Do the best with what you've got.
running real goal
The more I run, the more I want to run, and the more I live a life conditioned and influenced and fashioned by my running. And the more I run, the more certain I am that I am heading for my real goal: to become the person I am.
running dream kids
I've always had a longstanding dream, ever since I was a kid, where I was running on a big lake of ice and I kept running and kept running, just about to where I was trying to get to, and I fell through the ice, and then I couldn't find the hole where I fell through to get back out again. Garrett Hedlund
running mistake thinking
It is a mistake to think that we can control the breeding of mankind in the long run by an appeal to conscience. Garrett Hardin
running
Now women are rising to great positions and they run most of the studios now. Garry Marshall
running beach dog
The audience is invisible and that's good. Somewhere my voice is drifting through a swine barn and the sound of it seems to perk up the sows' appetite. Or a lady is listening on headphones as she jogs along a beach, running to my cadence. Or a dog sits in front of the radio, head cocked, and the sibilants excite him in some mysterious way. A dog's humorist, that's me. Garrison Keillor
running new-york cities
An interesting thing about New York City is that the subways run through the sewers.
running oil ignorant
Don't pour the oil directly into my navel, pour it on my sternum and let it run down into my navel, you ignorant peasant.
running morning pain
We live a pleasant life shopping at the Food Shoppe . . . taking the kids to the Weinery-Beanery, . . . and eating bran flakes . .. and then, with no warning, we wake up one morning stricken with middle age, full of loneliness, dumb, in pain. Our work is useless, our vocation is lost, and nobody cares about us at all. This is not bearable. In despair, we go do something spectacularly dumb, like run away with Amber the cocktail waitress, and suddenly all the women in our life look at us with unmitigated disgust.