137 Jogging Quotes

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Famous Jogging Quotes

Jogging is very beneficial. It's good for your legs and your feet. It's also very good for the ground. If makes it feel needed. — Charles Monroe Schulz

Jogging is very beneficial. It's good for your legs and your feet. It's also very good for the ground. If makes it feel needed. — Charles M. Schulz

I'd always liked jogging because it was a place to think. — Maggie Stiefvater

Jogging is for people who aren't intelligent enough to watch television. — Victoria Wood

I used to jog but the ice cubes kept falling out of my glass. - David Lee Roth

I used to jog but the ice cubes kept falling out of my glass. — David Lee Roth

The trouble with jogging is that the ice falls out of your glass. — Martin Mull

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

My doctor told me that jogging could add years to my life. I think he was right. I feel ten years older already. — Milton Berle

The only reason I would take up jogging is so that I could hear heavy breathing again. — Erma Bombeck

The difference between a jogger and a runner is an entry blank. — George Sheehan

The difference between a jogger and a runner is an entry blank. — George A. Sheehan

I personally love to run outdoor fitness trails. I love the meditative value I get when out alone, challenging myself to run faster and higher. — Laurieann Gibson

Running is my meditation, mind flush, cosmic telephone, mood elevator and spiritual communion. — Lorraine Moller

Meditation is warm-up exercise for the mind, so that you can jog through the rest of the day without getting agitated or spraining your patience. — Eknath Easwaran

I'm the walkingest girl around. I like to work at it - really get my heart pounding. — Amy Yasbeck

Short Jogging Quotes

  • Laughter is inner jogging. — Norman Cousins
  • I always loved running.... It was something you could do by yourself and under your own power. — Jesse Owens
  • Joining a Facebook group about creative productivity is like buying a chair about jogging. — Merlin Mann
  • We all know that small cars are good for us. But so is cod liver oil. And jogging. — Jeremy Clarkson
  • I never go jogging, it makes me spill my martini. — George Burns
  • Hearty laughter is a good way to jog internally without having to go outdoors. — Norman Cousins
  • If SANTA CLAUS came down the chimney in a f**king jogging suit, you wouldn't even know it was him. — Wayne Coyne
  • Methinks that the moment my legs began to move, my thoughts began to flow. — Henry David Thoreau
  • I don't jog, if I die I want to be sick. — Abe Lemons
  • I live by a hill. I began walking it and then I began jogging it and then I began sprinting it. — Tea Leoni

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Walking And Jogging Quotes

I went jogging up on Mulholland. In the middle of my run I had some form of asthma attack and couldn't even walk. I couldn't get a ride one block to my house. I thought I was going to die. — Esai Morales

Just do some kind of workout. Doesn't matter if it's going for a walk around the block, going for a jog, doing some calisthenics, lifting weights, going to a pool and swimming - you name it. But do something that gets your blood flowing and gets your mind in the game. — Jocko Willink

Another thing I like to do is sit back and take in nature. To look at the birds, listen to their singing, go hiking, camping and jogging and running, walking along the beach, playing games and sometimes being alone with the great outdoors. It's very special to me. — Larry Wilcox

Christianity is called a spiritual walk. It's not a run and it's not a jog. It's a walk you do from day to day and that makes you stable. — Orel Hershiser

The more women walk around in sweat pants, the harder it is to tell who's out jogging and who's running away from a mugger. — Dana Gould

t's much less daunting once you've put your foot on the road to it. I'm a notorious couch potato and I don't like exercise. Half an hour of physical exercise, like jogging or fast walking a day is a start. — Tom Hardy

When he ran from a cop his transitions from accelerating walk to easy jog trot to brisk canter to headlong gallop to flogged-piston sprint...were as distinct and as soberly in order as an automatic gearshift. — James Agee

Jog Quotes

The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and starting on the first one. — Mark Twain

Laughter is a form of internal jogging. It moves your internal organs around. It enhances respiration. It is an igniter of great expectations. — Norman Cousins

During the winter, you head out into the darkness for a run. When spring comes, and the first crocus pokes up its head...you know it was worthwhile. — Nina Kuscsik

It's unnatural for people to run around the city streets unless they are thieves or victims. It makes people nervous to see someone running. I know that when I see someone running on my street, my instincts tell me to let the dog go after him. — Mike Royko

I always felt mean, jogging back over the logging road,As if I had broken the natural order of things in that swampland;Disturbed some rhythm, old and of vast importance,By pulling off flesh from the living planet;As if I had committed, against the whole scheme of life, a desecration. — Theodore Roethke

We're all unlucky in love sometimes. When I am, I go jogging. The body loses water when you jog, so you have none left for tears. — Wong Kar-wai

I don't think jogging is healthy, especially morning jogging. If morning joggers knew how tempting they looked to morning motorists, they would stay home and do sit-ups. — Rita Rudner

I love to exercise outside in the fresh air and sun: hiking, swimming, stand-up paddleboarding, and jogging. — Colbie Caillat

When I am walking in Central Park, I recognize the Italians. Because an Italian, even when he jogs, he's dressed perfect. — Diego Della Valle

The pleasure of jogging and running is rather like that of wearing a fur coat in Texas in August: the true joy comes in being able to take the damn thing off. — Joseph Epstein

Exercise Health Quotes

Physical fitness can neither be acquired by wishful thinking nor by outright purchase. — Joseph Pilates

If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health. — Hippocrates

Exercise is king. Nutrition is queen. Put them together and you've got a kingdom. — Jack LaLanne

Health is like money, we never have a true idea of its value until we lose it. - Josh Billings

Health is like money, we never have a true idea of its value until we lose it. — Josh Billings

I really don't think I need buns of steel. I'd be happy with buns of cinnamon. - Ellen DeGeneres

I really don't think I need buns of steel. I'd be happy with buns of cinnamon. — Ellen DeGeneres

Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning. — Thomas Jefferson

Lack of activity destroys the good condition of every human being - Plato

Lack of activity destroys the good condition of every human being — Plato

Exercise is the new probiotic. Aerobic exercise may be one of the most effective ways to promote gut health and help heal intestinal issues. Aerobic exercise increases butyrate-producing gut bacteria independent of diet. This reduces inflammation — Rhonda Patrick

No matter what we eat, how much we exercise, how resilient our genes are, how skinny or young or wise we are—none of it will matter unless we’re breathing correctly. That’s what these researchers discovered. The missing pillar in health is breath. It all starts there. — James Nestor

Exercise, from a public health perspective, is an unmitigated failure. The world's longest-lived people live in environments that nudge them into more movement. They don't use power tools, they do their own yard work, they grow a garden. — Dan Buettner

Distance Running Quotes

Running is the greatest metaphor for life, because you get out of it what you put into it. — Oprah Winfrey

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

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

It hurts up to a point and then it doesn't get any worse. — Ann Trason

Ask yourself: 'Can I give more?'. The answer is usually: 'Yes'. — Paul Tergat

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

Running Training Quotes

Worrying gets you nowhere. If you turn up worrying about how you're going to perform, you've already lost. Train hard, turn up, run your best and the rest will take care of itself. — Usain Bolt

It hurts, but that’s all it does. The most difficult part of the training is training your mind. You build calluses on your feet to endure the road. You build calluses on your mind to endure the pain. There’s only one way to do that. You have to get out there and run. — David Goggins

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

If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it. — Michael Jordan

If you are losing faith in human nature, go out and watch a marathon. - Kathrine Switzer

If you are losing faith in human nature, go out and watch a marathon. — Kathrine Switzer

I have found the Iron to be my greatest friend. It never freaks out on me, never runs. Friends may come and go. But two hundred pounds is always two hundred pounds — Henry Rollins

When I was running training, we would fire a couple of leaders from every SEAL team because they couldn't lead. And 99.9% of the time, it wasn't a question of their ability - it was a question of their ability to listen. — Jocko Willink

I know I'm more on television, and I'm more recognizable than maybe even the players because they run and train, but I just stand there, and my face does all these funny things that everyone can see all the time. — Jurgen Klopp

I was running to catch a train when one of my teachers saw me. He thought I was fast, time me, and later gave me my first instructions in sprinting. I happened to be at the right place at the right time. — Elizabeth Robinson Schwartz

I always tell beginning runners: Train your brain first. It's much more important than your heart or legs. — Amby Burfoot

Physical Exercise Quotes

The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not sufficient warrant. — John Stuart Mill

Karate is not a game. It is not a sport. It is not even a system of self-defense. Karate is half physical exercise and half spiritual. The karateist who has given the necessary years of exercise and meditation is a tranquil person. He is unafraid. He can even be calm in a burning building. — Mas Oyama

Childhood obesity is best tackled at home through improved parental involvement, increased physical exercise, better diet and restraint from eating. — Bob Filner

The rate of childhood obesity is just ridiculous. Anytime I can get involved with teaching them how to get physical exercise, I want to help in any way possible — Shannon Miller

In times of life crisis, whether wild fires or smoldering stress, the first thing I do is go back to basics... am I eating right, am I getting enough sleep, am I getting some physical and mental exercise everyday. — Edward Albert

A man's health can be judged by which he takes two at a time: pills or stairs. - Joan Walsh Anglund

A man's health can be judged by which he takes two at a time: pills or stairs. — Joan Walsh Anglund

Before any real benefit can be derived from physical exercises, one must first learn how to breath properly. Our very life depends on it. — Joseph Pilates

Why do strong arms fatigue themselves with frivolous dumbbells? To dig a vineyard is worthier exercise for men. — Martial

The physical and mental impairments caused by one night of bad sleep dwarf those caused by an equivalent absence of food or exercise. — Matthew Walker

Exercise is remarkably beneficial for the brain. High fitness levels in midlife delayed dementia onset by 9.5 years in women. Larger brain volumes have also been linked to increased physical activity. Maintain youthful brain volume by embracing exercise. We can transform our brain health as we age. — Rhonda Patrick

Morning Run Quotes

True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country. — Kurt Vonnegut

Hope is a renewable option: If you run out of it at the end of the day, you get to start over in the morning. — Barbara Kingsolver

My ideal is to wake up in the morning and run around the meadow naked. — Daryl Hannah

There can be no whiter whiteness than this one: An insurance man's shirt on its morning run. — Gwendolyn Brooks

When you run in the morning, you gain time. It's like stretching 24 hours into 25. You may need less sleep and get up earlier, but if you can get by that, running early seems to expand the day. — Fred Lebow

It doesn't matter whether you are a lion or a gazelle. When the sun comes up, you better be running. — Abe Gubegna

Running in the morning has me appreciate all the choices that come later in the day. The choices I make after running seem healthier, wiser and kinder. — Deena Kastor

I had to get up run in the morning for 2 hours, go to the gym and also get good opponents as sparring partners because I'm a big believer in that how you train is how you will fight at least when it came to me that's how it worked. — Alexis Arguello

In the morning there was a big wind blowing and the waves were running high up on the beach and he was awake a long time before he remembered that his heart was broken. — Ernest Hemingway

The work is with me when I wake up in the morning; it is with me while I eat my breakfast in bed and run through the newspaper, while I shave and bathe and dress. — C. S. Forester

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More Jogging Quotes

To jog the prisoners’ memories back to the reality of their grave situation we decided to show them atrocity films taken at Buchenwald. Colonel Andrus assembled his fifty-two Nazi prisoners in one room. Before the film began, he addressed them with the following words: You know about these things and I have no doubt many of you participated actively in them. We are showing them to you not to inform you of what you already know, but to impress on you the fact that we know of it, too. — Annie Jacobsen

When I finished the Boston race in 1967, there were two things I wanted to do. I wanted to become a better athlete because my first marathon was 4:20. In those days, that was considered a jogging time and I knew people were going to tease me. But I was more fascinated with what women could do if they only had the chance. — Kathrine Switzer

I trained for less than three-quarters of an hour, maybe five days a week - I didn't have time to do more. But it was all about quality, not quantity - so I didn't waste time jogging, ever. — Roger Bannister

I don't want to be religious, I want to be spiritual. Anybody can be religious. Some people jog religiously. You don't want to be that, you want to be spiritual. You want to have a relationship with God as opposed to doing what everyone else does. — Lauryn Hill

When people ask me what I do, strangers on a plane, perhaps, I tell them that I think. Thinking is excellent exercise, as much as swimming or jogging. — Tom Glazer

Many people believe that dealing with overweight and obesity is a personal responsibility. To some degree they are right, but it is also a community responsibility. When there are no safe, accessible places for children to play or adults to walk, jog, or ride a bike, that is a community responsibility. — David Satcher

Finland has produced so many brilliant distance runners because back home it costs $2.50 a gallon for gas. — Esa Tikkanen

Every time I jog through the world, I am awed by what I find. On a winter morning, when it seems too cold and slippery for safe jogging or bicycling, I can still go out and experience the glory of sunlight turning icy branches into strings of sparkling diamonds. — Bernie Siegel

There's one thing that's really great about waking up early, and it's not jogging or greeting the day - it's just that that's when they make doughnuts. — Kathy Griffin

And as she jogged out of sight, they could hear her muttering, "Tentacula. Devil's Snare. And Snargaluff pods. Yes, I'd like to see Death Eaters fighting those. — J. K. Rowling

Blink and you miss a sprint. The 10,000 meters is lap after lap of waiting. Theatrically, the mile is just the right length: beginning, middle, end, a story unfolding. — Sebastian Coe

Ski. Sled. Play basketball. Jog. Run. Run. Run. Run home. Run home and enjoy. Enjoy. Take these verbs and enjoy them. They're yours, Craig. You deserve them because you chose them. You could have left them all behind but you chose to stay here. So now live for real, Craig. Live. Live. Live. Live. Live. — Ned Vizzini

I come home from work early one day, and I see a guy jogging down the street in his underwear. I ask him, "Why are you jogging in your underwear?" He says, "You came home from work early". — Rodney Dangerfield

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