Long distance running is particularly good training in perseverance. — Mao Zedong
Running! If there's any activity happier, more exhilarating, more nourishing to the imagination, I can't think of what it might be. — Joyce Carol Oates
Run often. Run long. But never outrun your joy of running. — Julie Isphording
A runner must run with dreams in his heart. — Emil Zatopek
In long-distance running the only opponent you have to beat is yourself, the way you used to be. — Haruki Murakami
Running is real. It’s all joy and woe, hard as diamond. It makes you weary beyond comprehension, but it also makes you free. — Jesse Owens
A lot of people run a race to see who is fastest. I run to see who has the most guts, who can punish himself into exhausting pace, and then at the end, punish himself even more. — Steve Prefontaine
Running is just such a monastery- a retreat, a place to commune with God and yourself, a place for psychological and spiritual renewal. — George A. Sheehan
Track and field, because it was something I could do by myself, one-on-one, me against everybody else. — Jim Thorpe
Running is about finding your inner peace, and so is a life well lived. — Dean Karnazes
It's a hard, simple calculus: Run until you can't run anymore. Then run some more. Find a new source of energy and will. Then run even faster. — Scott Jurek
Running is my meditation, mind flush, cosmic telephone, mood elevator and spiritual communion. — Lorraine Moller
Running has thrown me into adventures that I would otherwise have missed. — Benjamin Cheever
That's the thing about running: your greatest runs are rarely measured by racing success. They are moments in time when running allows you to see how wonderful your life it. — Kara Goucher
I loved the feeling of freedom in running, the fresh air, the feeling that the only person I'm competing with is me. — Wilma Rudolph
Short Cross Country Running Quotes
I always loved running.... It was something you could do by yourself and under your own power. — Jesse Owens
Tears streamed down my face as I crossed the finish line. I was a new person, a runner. — Thomas King
For me, running is about freedom. I find that the freer I feel, the faster I am. — Jennifer Beals
Anybody can be a runner. We were meant to move. We were meant to run. It's the easiest sport. — Bill Rodgers
Running is the greatest metaphor for life, because you get out of it what you put into it. — Oprah Winfrey
The real purpose of running isn't to win a race, it's to test the limits of the human heart. — Bill Bowerman
The marathon can humble you. — Bill Rodgers
Cross Country Running Image Quotes
Fear has two meanings - Forget Everything And Run or Face Everything And Rise. The choice is yours.
When I came back, after all those stories about Hitler and his snub, I came back to my native country, and I could not ride in the front of the bus. I had to go to the back door. I couldn't live where I wanted. Now what's the difference? — Jesse Owens
Make the mind run the body. Never let the body tell the mind what to do. The body will always give up. — George S. Patton
Cross country skiing is great if you live in a small country. — Steven Wright
Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired. — Jules Renard
One of my big philosophies is that fighting is the sport that crosses all borders. I don't care what color you are, what country you come from or what language you speak, fighting is in our DNA. We get it and we like it. — Dana White
Your heart knows the way. Run in that direction.
In today's world, it is shortsighted to think that infectious diseases cannot cross borders. By allowing developing countries access to generic drugs, we not only help improve health in those nations, we also help ourselves control these debilitating and often deadly diseases. — Ron Wyden
The only tactics I admire are do-or-die — Herb Elliott
Only think of two things - the report of the pistol and the tape. When you hear one, run like hell until you break the other. — Sam Mussabini
I cannot have survival as my only goal. That would be too boring. My goal is to come back in my best running form. It is good for me to have that goal; it will help me. — Ludmila Engquist
Long Distance Running Quotes
Walking long distances is fundamental to being a hunter-gatherer, but people sometimes have to run. One powerful motivation is to sprint to a tree or some other refuge when being chased by a predator. — Daniel Lieberman
They say the breaks even up in the long run, and the trick is to be a long-distance runner. — Chuck Knox
One life. Just one. Why aren't we running like we are on fire towards our wildest dreams?
We have these amazing gifts of music and mathematics and painting and Olympic running. I mean, we're the animal that is best of all the animals at long-distance running. Why? It is quite amazing. Superfluous gifts you don't really need to survive. — Freeman Dyson
I get stoned, I can't get home, I'm calling long distance on a public saxophone. My head is achin', my back is breakin', feel I got run over by Captain Coconut and his dog named Rover. — Jimi Hendrix
During long, slow distance training, you should think of yourself as a thoroughbred disguised as a plow horse. No need to give yourself away by running fast. — Marty Liquori
God sometimes removes people from your life to protect you. Don't run after them.
It is always easiest to run with the herd; at times, it can take a deep reservoir of courage and conviction to stand apart from it. Yet distancing yourself from the crowd is an essential component of long-term investment success. — Seth Klarman
Long slow distance makes long slow runners. — Jim Bush
I've always felt that long, slow distance produces long, slow runners. — Sebastian Coe
In the big city, if the man next door happens to be a slum landlord, a Mafia bag man, or a long distance runner, what does it matter, as long as he puts his garbage out on Tuesdays? — Hal Higdon
Distance Running Quotes
In running it is man against himself, the cruelest of opponents. The other runners are not the real enemies. His adversary lies within him, in his ability with brain and heart to master himself and his emotions. — Glenn Cunningham
When you run the marathon, you run against the distance, not against the other runners and not against the time. — Haile Gebrselassie
Go in any direction..seeking out new sights just on the strength of your feet and the courage of your lungs. — Paula Radcliffe
Running from your problems is just adding another one to the list.
The woods are lovely, dark, and deep but I have promises to keep... — Robert Frost
I have a saying 'train, don't strain.' The Americans have the saying 'no pain, no gain' and that's why they have no distance running champions. They get down to the track with a stopwatch and flog their guts out thinking that it'll make them a champion, but they'll never make a champion that way. — Arthur Lydiard
It hurts up to a point and then it doesn't get any worse. — Ann Trason
Anyone can run away, it's super easy. Facing problems and working through them, that's what makes you strong.
Ask yourself: 'Can I give more?'. The answer is usually: 'Yes'. — Paul Tergat
The will to win means nothing without the will to prepare. — Juma Ikangaa
There are as many reasons for running as there are days in the year, years in my life. But mostly I run because I am an animal and a child, an artist and a saint. So, too, are you. Find your own play, your own self-renewing compulsion, and you will become the person you are meant to be. — George A. Sheehan
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. — PattiSue Plumer
Listen to your body. Do not be a blind and deaf tenant. — George A. Sheehan
Sweat cleanses from the inside. It comes from places a shower will never reach. — George A. Sheehan
Run hard, be strong, think big! — Percy Cerutty
I had as many doubts as anyone else. Standing on the starting line, we're all cowards. — Alberto Salazar
Out on the roads there is fitness and self-discovery and the persons we were destined to be. — George A. Sheehan
You cannot propel yourself forward by patting yourself on the back. — Steve Prefontaine
If you want to tell something to an athlete, say it quickly and give no alternatives. This is a game of winning and losing. It is senseless to explain and explain. — Paavo Nurmi
The nine inches right here; set it straight and you can beat anybody in the world. — Sebastian Coe
Run like hell and get the agony over with. — Clarence DeMar
The freedom of cross country is so primitive. It's woman vs. nature. — Lynn Jennings
Dream barriers look very high until someone climbs them. They are not barriers anymore. — Lasse Viren
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
I love running cross-country...You come up a hill and see two deer going, 'What the hell is he doing?' On a track I feel like a hamster. — Robin Williams
I run because it's my passion, and not just a sport. — Sasha Azevedo
Running is one the best solutions to a clear mind. — Sasha Azevedo
Tomorrow is another day, and there will be another battle! — Sebastian Coe
The important thing is the attitude of the athlete, the desire to get to the top. — Herb Elliott
Running taught me valuable lessons. In cross-country competition, training counted more than intrinsic ability, and I could compensate for a lack of natural aptitude with diligence and discipline. I applied this in everything I did. — Nelson Mandela
Cross Country: No half times, no time outs, no substitutions. It must be the only true sport. — Chuck Norris
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 you put yourself on the line in a race and expose yourself to the unknown, you learn things about yourself that are very exciting. — Doris Brown Heritage
The obsession with running is really an obsession with the potential for more and more life. — George A. Sheehan
The start of a World Cross Country event is like riding a horse in the middle of a buffalo stampede. It's a thrill if you keep up, but one slip and you're nothing but hoof prints. — Ed Eyestone
My greatest ideas stem from running. — Sasha Azevedo
Those who say that I will lose and am finished will have to run over my body to beat me. — Said Aouita
Marathon running is a terrible experience: monotonous, heavy, and exhausting. — Veikko Karvonen
The footing was really atrocious. I loved it. I really like Cross Country; you're one with the mud. — Lynn Jennings
The Athlete defeats fear and conquers himself! — Franz Stampfl
In the achievement of greater performances, of beating formidable rivals, the athlete defeats fear and conquers himself. — Franz Stampfl
There is the truth about the marathon and very few of you have written the truth. Even if I explain to you, you'll never understand it, you're outside of it. — Douglas Wakiihuri
My introduction to track racing was through the background of cross country running, which is not a sport perhaps as popular in America as it is in England. — Roger Bannister
When I started running cross-country and track in high school, literally every race was a failure. — Chad Hurley
I am going to go out a winner if I have to find a high school race to win my last race. — Johnny Gray
School cross country runs started because the rugby pitches were flooded. There was an alternative: extra studying. This meant there were plenty of runners on sports afternoons. — Gordon Pirie
When I was about 14 or 15, and running in a pretty muddy cross country race, one of my shoes stuck in the mud and came off. Boy, was I wild. To think that I had trained hard for this race and didn't do up my shoelace tightly enough! I really got aggressive with myself, and I found myself starting to pass a lot of runners. As it turned out, I improved something like twenty places in that one race. But I never did get my shoe back. — Robert de Castella
Cross-country running was so beautiful with all the trails and the lake regions ... very physical and also a bit spiritual, where you could come over the mountain and all of a sudden you'd see a Buddhist landscape fog. — Robin Williams
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