“You can keep going and your legs might hurt for a week, or you can quit and your mind will hurt for a lifetime.”
— Mark Allen
“Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.”
— Lance Armstrong
“You don’t stop running because you get old, you get old because you stop running.”
— Christopher McDougall
“Success isn’t how far you got, but the distance you traveled from where you started.”
— Steve Prefontaine
“Running teaches us that we are capable of so much more than we ever imagined.”
— PattiSue Plumer
“Run when you can, walk if you have to, crawl if you must; just never give up.”
— Dean Karnazes
“Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”
— Haruki Murakami
“Nothing will work unless you do.”
— Maya Angelou
“Not all who wander are lost.”
— J. R. R. Tolkien
“Injuries are our best teachers.”
— Scott Jurek
“When you want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe, then you’ll be successful.”
— Eric Thomas
“Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.”
— Henry Ford
“The pride in finishing a marathon is much greater than all the pain endured during the marathon.”
— Hal Higdon
“Ask nothing from your running, and you’ll get more than you ever imagined.”
“Go fast enough to get there, but slow enough to see.”
— Jimmy Buffett
“Don’t let fatigue make a coward out of you.”
“If you don’t have answers to your problems after a four-hour run, you ain’t getting them.”
“To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift.”
“Someone once told me the definition of Hell: The last day you have on earth, the person you became will meet the person you could have become.”
— Anonymous
“Life is for participating, not for spectating.”
— Kathrine Switzer
“If you can run six miles on a summer day, then you, my friend, are a lethal weapon in the animal kingdom.”
“Somebody may beat me, but they are going to have to bleed to do it.”
“When I'm running I don't have to talk to anybody and don't have to listen to anybody. This is a part of my day I can't do without.”
“The best pace is a suicide pace, and today looks like a good day to die.”
“Sometimes you just do things!”
“The longer and farther I ran, the more I realized that what I was often chasing was a state of mind – a place where worries that seemed monumental melted away, where the beauty and timelessness of the universe, of the present moment, came into sharp focus.”
“If you don’t think you were born to run you’re not only denying history. You’re denying who you are.”
“The reason we race isn’t so much to beat each other, but to be with each other.”
“If you are losing faith in human nature, go out and watch a marathon.”
“If one could run without getting tired I don’t think one would often want to do anything else.”
— C. S. Lewis
“All I do is keep on running in my own cozy, homemade void, my own nostalgic silence. And this is a pretty wonderful thing. No matter what anybody else says.”
“I don’t think limits.”
— Usain Bolt
“The miracle isn’t that I finished. The miracle is that I had the courage to start.”
— John Bingham
“If you want to run, run a mile. If you want to experience a different life, run a marathon.”
— Emil Zatopek
“Sometimes you’ve got to go through hell to get to heaven.”
“I stopped worrying about the start. The end is what’s important.”
“Learn to run when feeling the pain, then push harder.”
— William Sigei
“We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort.”
— Jesse Owens
“Everything you ever wanted to know about yourself, you can learn in 26.2 miles.”
— Lori Culnane
“If you train your mind for running, everything else will be easy.”
— Amby Burfoot
“Don’t run with your legs, run with your heart.”
“Either you run the day or the day runs you.”
— Jim Rohn
“The human body has limitations. The human spirit is boundless.”
“All you need is the courage to believe in yourself and put one foot in front of the other.”
“When you run the marathon, you run against the distance, not against the other runners and not against the time.”
— Haile Gebrselassie
“Running is my private time, my therapy, my religion.”
— Gail W. Kislevitz
“Running is my meditation, mind flush, cosmic telephone, mood elevator and spiritual communion.”
— Lorraine Moller
“If you can’t win, make the fellow ahead of you break the record.”
— Unknown
“One chance is all you need.”
“Believe in your dreams and that anything is possible.”
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