Runners Quotes
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Runners Quotes & Sayings
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We've got a lot of people that support, but The Runners are definitely one of my favorites.
— Ace Hood
More congenial to me than dictators
Are rickshaw-runners.
If they break my neck
It will be by accident,
Not as a matter of state policy. — William Kean Seymour
Are rickshaw-runners.
If they break my neck
It will be by accident,
Not as a matter of state policy. — William Kean Seymour
The only magic in our lives as runners is the magic of consistency. Not every run will make you feel great.
— John Bingham
Good try, ya bugging shank. The Gathering elects Runners, and if you think I'm tough, they'd laugh in your face.
— James Dashner
I always tell beginning runners: Train your brain first. It's much more important than your heart or legs.
— Amby Burfoot
NYC Marathon cancelled: runners are scrambling to find some other meaningless accomplishment to use as a proxy for control over their lives.
— Nils Parker
With my runners now, they get two month-long breaks during the year.
— Alberto Salazar
Gender is a race in which some of the runners compete only for the bronze medal.
— Yuval Noah Harari
There is no bad weather, just soft runners.
— Bill Bowerman
Runners don't run with their legs, they run ON their legs. In reality, they run with their Arms!
— Percy Cerutty
In a life full of work, family, civic responsibilities, commutes and errands, your training runs offer fertile opportunity to lean inward and listen.
— Gina Greenlee
Runners, by nature, are intentional people and normally pretty light on our feet.
— Kristin Armstrong
In athletics, older runners tend to go for longer races, but it's the opposite in swimming because your body can't handle the endurance.
— Kirsty Coventry
I was a runner who happened to be a Christian. I needed to become a Christian who happened to be a runner.
— Ryan Hall
May the bird of paradise fly up your nose, may an elephant caress you with his toes, may your wife be plagued with runners in her hose.
— 'Little' Jimmy Dickens
As runners we all have the same challenges and share the same experience, with the goal to accomplish something and better ourselves.
— Wilson Chebet
You never see a smiling runner.
— George Carlin
In the race of faith, stay focused upon Christ, not the other runners, nor the spectators.
— Steven J. Lawson
It is suicidal for other runners to copy my hill sessions without adequate background.
— Pekka Vasala
The obsession with running is really an obsession with the potential for more and more life.
— George A. Sheehan
One skill that separates good from almost-good runners is an ability to concentrate for an entire race, whether it is a mile or a marathon.
— Kara Goucher
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
I am a better hitter with runners in scoring position.
— Robinson Cano
He'd danced around that story about why he'd moved to Terrebonne more smoothly than an Olympic skater on ice.
— Susannah Sandlin
Runners are poor walkers.
— Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
And, just for good measure, here are a handful of runners up:
For now the seventh summer carries you,
A wanderer, across the lands and waters. — Virgil
For now the seventh summer carries you,
A wanderer, across the lands and waters. — Virgil
Runners in the western world have a tendency to create psychological barriers for themselves, but Morceli runs at will, with no inhibitions.
— Eamonn Coghlan
In my opinion, the best setup guys now have a tougher job than the closers. They pitch more innings, inherit more runners.
— Goose Gossage
The difference between my world record and many world class runners is mental fortitude. I ran believing in mind over matter.
— Derek Clayton
Not all the Greek runners in the original Olympics were totally naked. Some wore shoes.
— Mark Twain
Ultimately, the best runners are the ones who are willing to work very hard but who have a little bit of a lazy streak in them.
— Benji Durden
I just do my best to put the ball in play and put it in play where no one's going to make a play on it and hopefully drive some runners in.
— Joey Votto
When one runs 45, 50 or even 100km, for me, is not an ultra runner
— Yiannis Kouros
The medal is not for yourself. It couldn't be done without the support and help of my people, runners, and coaches
— Alberto Juantorena
Minho looked at Thomas. I nominate this shank to replace me as Keeper of the Runners.
— James Dashner
We're not home-and-hearth people. We're the adventurers, the buccaneers, the blockade runners. Without challenge, we're only alive.
— Alexander Eliot
You learn to run like a sprinter, you'll be a great distance runner
— Alberto Salazar
Based on my experience; I would develop fast speed before anything else. Get your young runners so they can run and teach them speed.
— Gerry Lindgren
All runners are tough. Everyone has to have a little fire in them, that even in tough times, can't be turned off.
— Shalane Flanagan
Finland has produced so many brilliant distance runners because back home it costs $2.50 a gallon for gas.
— Esa Tikkanen
[We] have sex like Kenyan marathon runners.
— Olivia Wilde
The Bears are front-runners. Quitters. They are not a second-half team, just a bunch of cry-babies.
— George Preston Marshall
Runners can be having an absolutely miserable race and yet still be cognizant of the fact that they are undertaking something amazing. I
— Cory Reese
When you run the marathon, you run against the distance, not against the other runners and not against the time.
— Haile Gebrselassie
This is Simba," Nicole said, pointing to the lion.
"Is he dangerous?" Asked Chase.
"Not really. He mauled a trainer, but nothing much. — Roland Smith
"Is he dangerous?" Asked Chase.
"Not really. He mauled a trainer, but nothing much. — Roland Smith
We are just not made up to be middle distance runners.
— Alberto Juantorena
A blanket could be used to sell ice cream to streakers. Well, it could, if those naked runners didn't leave their wallets in their pants.
— Jarod Kintz
The 3-minute mile goal is to teach runners that the impossible is where goals should be set.
— Gerry Lindgren
Well, stealing bases adds some runs but very few, and you lose most of the runs that you gain by having runners caught stealing.
— Bill James
My guess is many top athletes, distance runners included, use performance-enhancing drugs, enough so that the problem must be tackled.
— Bill Rodgers
I admire runners older than I - they are now my heroes. I want to be like them as I grow older.
— Frank Shorter
In the beginning you likely say, 'I run.' With more confidence, you say, 'I am a runner.'
— Gloria Averbuch
I am a runner because I run. Not because I run fast. Not because I run far. I am a runner because I say I am. And no one can tell me I'm not.
— John Bingham
Runners are the ultimate celebration people. Running is just so intense, you're really experiencing life to the fullest.
— Bill Rodgers
Once upon a time, about 20 years ago, runners believed they didn't have to do anything but run
— Amby Burfoot
One of the most important ways for you to train, stay healthy and injury free is to listen closely to what your body tells you.
— Gina Greenlee
The heat tamped everything down. Aside from a handful of certifiable runners and insane cyclists, the park had been left to the birds and squirrels.
— Richard Castle
Overtraining is the biggest problem incurred by runners who lack the experience or discipline to cope with their own enthusiasm.
— Marty Liquori
Many people are afraid of running because between 30 to 70 percent (depending on how you measure it) of runners get injured every year.
— Daniel Lieberman
Runners are bouncing up and down at the curb waiting for lights to change. Cops are in coffee shops dealing with bagel deficiencies.
— Thomas Pynchon
I studied Tom Cruise running in all the Mission Impossibles. I think he's one of the best screen runners.
— Ben Stiller
Even for runners who never make the transition to more sophisticated workouts, easing into speedwork will lead to more enjoyable running.
— Don Kardong
Runners in shoes that cost more than $95 were more than twice as likely to get hurt as runners in shoes that cost less than $40.
— Christopher McDougall
Masters runners fare best when they designate every third week as a recovery week.
— Matt Fitzgerald
Long slow distance makes long slow runners.
— Jim Bush
The chairs and tables, decorated with runners of Italian silk, were Disney-movie themed, because Kelly ate, breathed and farted Disney.
— Heidi Cullinan
Once we get into the groove, we're kind of like long-distance runners - that adrenalin kicks in for me and I just keep running - and I don't stop!
— Keith Urban
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
It's what runners do. We keep on keeping on
— Amby Burfoot
Every athlete has doubts. Elite runners in particular are insecure people. You need someone to affirm that what you are doing is right.
— Lynn Jennings
When runners win a big race these days, they get a car. When I won a big race, I got a ride.
— Ron Delany
Deep down we are all still runners
— Bernd Heinrich
I'm never going to run this again.
— Grete Waitz
There is an expression among even the most advanced runners that getting your shoes on is the hardest part of any workout
— Kathrine Switzer
Runners don't quit. We fade; we "hit the wall"; we're sometimes reduced to a walk. But we keep on.
— Amby Burfoot
Which one of you is going to be runner-up?
— Walter Hagen
In a brief space the generations of beings are changed, and, like runners, pass on the torches of life.
— Lucretius
Once flooded with light, our boogeymen diminish, no longer ogres in our imagination. We welcome internal dialogue for its treasures.
— Gina Greenlee
My thoughts and prayers go out to the thousands of marathon runners, onlookers, city officials and others affected by this senseless tragedy.
— Ed Markey
In war there is no second prize for the runner-up.
— Omar N. Bradley