Distance Runner Quotes

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  • It's very hard in the beginning to understand that the whole idea is not to beat the other runners. Eventually you learn that the competition is against the little voice inside you that wants you to quit.

  • When you run the marathon, you run against the distance, not against the other runners and not against the time.

  • A runners creed: I will win; if I cannot win, I shall be second; if I cannot be second, I shall be third; if I cannot place at all, I shall still do my best.

    Ken Doherty (1964). “Modern training for running”, Prentice Hall
  • If one can stick to the training throughout the many long years, then will power is no longer a problem. It's raining? That doesn't matter. I am tired? That's besides the point. It's simply that I just have to.

  • To describe the agony of a marathon to someone who's never run it is like trying to explain color to someone who was born blind.

  • You shall become the person you are.

    Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, p.219, Vintage
  • Go in any direction..seeking out new sights just on the strength of your feet and the courage of your lungs.

    Running   Feet   Sight  
  • We've got to be long distance runners on the spiritual path. We want to run as fast as we can, but at the same time realize that if God isn't at the end of that 100 yards, we don't fall flat of exhaustion. We've got to have whatever rhythm it takes to be able to go on for incarnations until we find that state of perfection we've been seeking.

  • In the achievement of greater performances, of beating formidable rivals, the athlete defeats fear and conquers himself.

  • There's no such thing as bad weather, only inappropriate clothing

  • I always loved running... it was something you could do by yourself, and under your own power. You could go in any direction, fast or slow as you wanted, fighting the wind if you felt like it, seeking out new sights just on the strength of your feet and the courage of your lungs.

    Jesse Owens, Paul G. Neimark (1978). “Jesse, a spiritual autobiography”
  • Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

    T.S. Eliot (2015). “The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume I: Collected and Uncollected Poems”, p.1250, Faber & Faber
  • The mile has all the elements of a drama.

  • Everyone is an athlete. The only difference is that some of us are in training, and some are not.

    George A. Sheehan, George Sheehan (1992). “Dr. George Sheehan on getting fit & feeling great”, Outlet
  • If you're feeling good, don't worry. You'll get over it.

    God   Running   Worry  
  • Some people create with words or with music or with a brush and paints. I like to make something beautiful when I run. I like to make people stop and say, 'I've never seen anyone run like that before.' It's more than just a race, it's a style. It's doing something better than anyone else. It's being creative.

  • Back in the 1970s, I ate a high-protein diet to get bigger and stronger. As a senior at Utah State, I weighed 218 pounds with eight percent body fat, and threw the discus over 190 feet. Then I got some advice from the people at the Olympic Training Center. I needed carbs, they advised, and lots of them. They pointed to studies done on the American distance runners. Being an idiot, I took the advice to eat like emaciated, over-trained sub-performers. It took years of high carbohydrate grazing to learn the evils of this advice.

  • We run, not because we think it is doing us good, but because we enjoy it and cannot help ourselves

    Sir Roger Bannister (2011). “The First Four Minutes”, p.142, The History Press
  • Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.

  • Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.

    Running   Witty   Time  
    "If - " st. 4 (1910)
  • To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift.

    "Pre: Americas Greatest Running Legend, Steve Prefontaine". Book by Tom Jordan, 1977.
  • My guess is many top athletes, distance runners included, use performance-enhancing drugs, enough so that the problem must be tackled.

    Distance   Athlete   Drug  
  • Man is a distance runner as a consequence of hundreds of thousands of years of chasing antelopes, horses, elephants, wild cattle, and deer.

    Horse   Distance   Men  
    Paul Shepard (2011). “The Tender Carnivore and the Sacred Game”, p.114, University of Georgia Press
  • The distance runner is mysteriously reconciling the separations of body and mind, of pain and pleasure, of the conscious and the unconscious. He is repairing the rent, and healing the wound in his divided self. He has found a way to make the ordinary extraordinary; the commonplace unique; the everyday eternal.

    Pain   Distance   Healing  
    George A. Sheehan, George Sheehan (1992). “Dr. George Sheehan on getting fit & feeling great”, Outlet
  • There's no such thing as bad weather, just soft people.

  • Long-distance runners have to be very strange people. You have to really want to do it. You don't have to win or beat someone, you just have to get through the thing. That's the sense of victory. The sense of self-worth.

  • People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.

  • Racing teaches us to challenge ourselves. It teaches us to push beyond where we thought we could go. It helps us to find out what we are made of. This is what we do. This is what it's all about.

  • I've always felt that long, slow distance produces long, slow runners.

  • I want to be a lawyer, a dancer, an actress, a mother, a wife, a childrens author, a distance runner, a poet, a pianist, a pet store owner, an astronaut, an environmental and humanitarian activist, a psychiatrist, a ballet teacher, and the first woman president.

    Rachel Corrie (2009). “Let Me Stand Alone: The Journals of Rachel Corrie”, p.16, W. W. Norton & Company
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