Long distance running is particularly good training in perseverance. — Mao Zedong
Run often. Run long. But never outrun your joy of running. — Julie Isphording
If you train your mind for running, everything else will be easy. — Amby Burfoot
Run in places you love with people you like. Enjoying your surroundings and training partners will strengthen your commitment to running and bring out the best in you. — Deena Kastor
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
Running is about more than just putting one foot in front of the other; it is about our lifestyle and who we are. — Joan Benoit
I always tell beginning runners: Train your brain first. It's much more important than your heart or legs. — Amby Burfoot
If you want to be a successful runner, you have to consider everything. It's no good just thinking about endurance and not to develop fine speed. — Arthur Lydiard
Running is special. We've all done it: well, poorly, focused, in fear, being pursued, toward a goal. It's just elemental. Running is like fire. — Rob Delaney
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
When aerobic running becomes a daily habit, strength and confidence follow. — Arthur Lydiard
Learn to run when feeling the pain, then push harder. — William Sigei
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
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
Short Trained Quotes
Physical fitness can neither be acquired by wishful thinking nor by outright purchase. — Joseph Pilates
Remember, Christians, Negroes, black as Cain, /May be refin'd and join th' angelic train. — Phillis Wheatley
The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change. — Carl Rogers
Training errors are recorded on paper. Tactical errors are etched in stone. — Erwin Rommel
True warriors are fierce because their training is fierce. — Miyamoto Musashi
It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained. — Queen Elizabeth
There is always someone out there getting better than you by training harder than you. — Pele
I never ran my train off the track, and I never lost a passenger. — Harriet Tubman
Young man: Be honest; train yourself for useful work; love God. — Milton S. Hershey
Every time you speak right, you are training yourself to think right and act right. — T. B. Joshua
Trained Image Quotes
Train yourself to let go of everything you fear to lose.
Never trust a dog to watch your food. — Saint Patrick
A lifetime of training for just ten seconds. — Jesse Owens
Writers are a little below the clowns and a little above the trained seals. — John Steinbeck
Many times the wrong train took me to the right place. — Paulo Coelho
Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training. — Anna Freud
The artist must train not only his eye but also his soul. — Wassily Kandinsky
Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown — E. M. Forster
A man's health can be judged by which he takes two at a time: pills or stairs. — Joan Walsh Anglund
Nothing can substitute for just plain hard work — Andre Agassi
After a hard day of basic training, you could eat a rattlesnake. — Elvis Presley
Strong people are harder to kill than weak people and more useful in general. — Mark Rippetoe
The pain of discipline is nothing like the pain of disappointment — Justin Langer
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Inspirational Running Training Quotes
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
The only tactics I admire are do-or-die — Herb Elliott
Education is not the learning of facts, it's rather the training of the mind to think.
Stadiums are for spectators. We runners have Nature, and that is much better. — Juha Vaatainen
The mile has a classic symmetry....It's a play in four acts. — John Landy
Any idiot can train himself into the ground; the trick is working in training to get gradually stronger. — Keith Brantly
Champions train, losers complain.
Anyone can run 20 miles. It's the next six that count. — Barry Magee
The real competition is against the little voice inside you that wants to quit — George A. Sheehan
Athletes need to enjoy their training. They don't enjoy going down to the track with a coach making them do repetitions until they're exhausted. From enjoyment comes the will to win. — Arthur Lydiard
There's no such thing as bad weather - only the wrong clothes. — Billy Connolly
Daily Running Quotes
Vulgar and obscene, the papers run rumors daily about people in show business, tales of wicked ways and witless affairs. — Carroll O'Connor
The biggest thing that I've learned is to run the marathon, not the sprint. By that I mean, don't let the little problems that you face in the hour in daily life cast a shadow over the larger joys that you have, over the course of the years. — Jon Foreman
The first person you have to inspire every day is yourself. Running will do that. — Marc Parent
Education is not the learning of facts, but the training of the mind to think.
At first an ordeal and then an accomplishment, the daily run becomes a staple, like bread, or wine, a fine marriage, or air. It is also a free pass to friendship. — Benjamin Cheever
This is a very important practice. Live your daily life in a way that you never lose yourself.
When you are carried away with your worries, fears, cravings, anger, and desire, you run away from yourself and you lose yourself.
The practice is always to go back to oneself. — Nhat Hanh
One does not accumulate but eliminate. It is not daily increase but daily decrease. The height of cultivation always runs to simplicity. — Bruce Lee
If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry. Worry never fixes anything.
Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds up. — Barbara Kingsolver
Running is a gift I give myself almost daily. Even at days when everything seems to go wrong, I treat myself on the satisfaction of a lap of 30 to 40 minutes. — Arthur Blank
Beneath the surface of our daily life, in the personal history of many of us, there runs a continuous controversy between an Ego that affirms and an Ego that denies. — Beatrice Webb
History is little more than the story of man's sin, and the daily newspaper a running commentary on it. — Aiden Wilson Tozer
Running Quotes
Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. — Norman Maclean
Trump says he wants to run for president. Why not? It wouldn't be the first time he pushed a black family out of their home. — Snoop Dogg
I have wondered at times what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the US Congress. — Ronald Reagan
Champions train. Losers complain.
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
You learn something out of everything, and you come to realize more than ever that we're all here for a certain space of time, and, and then it's going to be over, and you better make this count. — Nancy Reagan
People aren't born strong. people grow stronger little by little, encountering difficult situations learning not to run from them. — Christina Grimmie
People don't run out of dreams - people just run out of time. — Glenn Frey
God gave you your own race to run, stop comparing yourself to other people. They have their race and you have yours. Run hard and don't quit. — LeCrae
Guess what this liberal would be all about? This liberal will be about socializing...uh, um...Would be about, basically, taking over, and the government running all of your companies. — Maxine Waters
It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness. — Seneca
Attitude determines how well you do it. — Lou Holtz
Life is a marathon, not a sprint; pace yourself accordingly. — Amby Burfoot
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
The woods are lovely, dark, and deep but I have promises to keep... — Robert Frost
I always loved running.... It was something you could do by yourself and under your own power. — Jesse Owens
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
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
The will to win means nothing without the will to prepare. — Juma Ikangaa
Running Race Quotes
The real purpose of running isn't to win a race, it's to test the limits of the human heart. — Bill Bowerman
Everything you need is already inside. — Bill Bowerman
He who starts behind in the great race of life must forever remain behind or run faster than the man in front. — Benjamin E. Mays
The punters know that the horse named Morality rarely gets past the post, whereas the nag named Self-interest always runs a good race. — Gough Whitlam
If you commit yourself to the love of Christ, then that is how you run a straight race. — Eric Liddell
My goal in sailing isn't to be brilliant or flashy in individual races, just to be consistent over the long run. — Dennis Conner
The whole world is run on bluff. No race, no nation, no man has any divine right to take advantage of others. Why allow the other fellow to bluff you? — Marcus Garvey
But if we can learn to fall more in love with the Lord and trust Him in the middle of every storm, we build our endurance to keep running the race. — Kari Jobe
Just put one foot in front of the other. — Austin Peck
Christianity is not a sprint but an endurance run. Therefore it is not how we start the race that counts, but how we complete it. How we finish is determined by the choices we make, and those are often formed by patterns we develop along the way. — John Bevere
Running Shoes Quotes
As you go through life's rich tapestry, you realize that most people you meet aren't fit to shine your shoes. It's a sad fact, but it's true. A good friend is someone who'd hide you if you were on the run for murder. How many of them do you know? — Lemmy Kilmister
Your goal might be to run a marathon, but your gateway habit is to put on your running shoes. — James Clear
Take dem shoes off your teeth and stop running your mouth. — Lil Wayne
I believe in gradual experimentation with running shoes. — Bill Rodgers
Your shoes are only as good as the laces they're attached to. — Greg Sampson
'Sex and The City' was made to correct the myth that if you were single at a certain age, you were a leper. Its four characters are heroes to a lot of women; they run around New York, or Gotham - but they have fancy shoes instead of capes. — Michael Patrick King
There is an expression among even the most advanced runners that getting your shoes on is the hardest part of any workout — Kathrine Switzer
Buy all shoes, both street and running, slightly longer and wider than your bigger foot. Also, avoid pointed shoes. You'll save yourself needless foot pain. — Ted Corbitt
Stepping outside the comfort zone is the price I pay to find out how good I can be. If I planned on backing off every time running got difficult I would hang up my shoes and take up knitting. — Desiree Linden
The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well. — Pierre de Coubertin
Training For A Marathon Quotes
I don't think about the miles that are coming down the road, I don't think about the mile I'm on right now, I don't think about the miles I've already covered. I think about what I'm doing right now, just being lost in the moment. — Ryan Hall
Few things in life match the thrill of a marathon. — Fred Lebow
Analysis is a glittering opportunity for training: it is just here that capacity for work, perseverence and stamina are cultivated, and these qualities are, in truth, as necessary to a chess player as a marathon runner. — Lev Polugaevsky
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
Having a true faith is the most difficult thing in the world. Many will try to take it from you. — Steve Prefontaine
I try to avoid the temptation with time as a total indicator for what my possibilities are for the marathon. It's the not the best indicator, but it's more how you feel, how you cover the distance and how you are able to do the training afterward. — Ryan Hall
Top results are achieved only through pain. But eventually you like this pain. — Juha Vaatainen
Training for a marathon is much like climbing a ladder. Each ring is a short-term goal that must be met in sequence in order to reach the long-term goal at the top of the ladder. — Richard Benyo
Marathon training doesn't have to be a grind. By running for about 30 minutes two times a week, and by gradually increasing the length of a third weekly run-the long run-anyone can finish a marathon. — Jeff Galloway
Sports Training Quotes
Biceps are like ornaments on a Christmas tree. — Ed Coan
When people say God blessed me with a beautiful jump shot, it really pisses me off. I tell those people, 'Don't undermine the work I've put in every day.' Not some days. Every day. — Ray Allen
There are only two options regarding commitment; you’re either in or you’re out. — Pat Riley
Karate is Budo and if Budo is removed from Karate it is nothing more than sport karate, show karate, or even fashion karate-the idea of training merely to be fashionable. — Mas Oyama
School, politics, sports, and games train us to compete against others. True rewards – wealth, knowledge, love, fitness, and equanimity – come from ignoring others and improving ourselves. — Naval Ravikant
If you're in the penalty area and don't know what to do with the ball, put it in the net and we'll discuss the options later. — Bob Paisley
It's important that athletes can compete on a level playing field. And youngsters coming into the sport can know that if they are working hard and training hard, they'll see a true reflection of where they stand and what they can achieve worldwide and not be swayed by people who are cheating. — Paula Radcliffe
Chess is like body-building. If you train every day, you stay in top shape. It is the same with your brain - chess is a matter of daily training. — Vladimir Kramnik
Train hard and stay focused: there are no shortcuts to success in fighting or any other sport. — Joe Rogan
Sometimes, when we train, we simply have to go out to meet the Man with the Hammer — Laurent Fignon
Long Distance Running Quotes
In long-distance running the only opponent you have to beat is yourself, the way you used to be. — Haruki Murakami
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
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
Long distance running is 90% mental and the other half is physical. — Rich Davis
Running Fast Quotes
Go fast enough to get there, but slow enough to see. — Jimmy Buffett
The secret of my success over the 400m is that I run the first 200m as fast as I can. Then, for the second 200m, with God's help I run faster. — Eric Liddell
God made me fast. And when I run, I feel His pleasure. — Eric Liddell
How fast does a zebra have to run before it looks gray. — Demetri Martin
The future’s too bright to dwell on the past. Life moves fast, run faster. — Frank Iero
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
My philosophy is that all stocks are bad. There are no good stocks unless they go up in price. If they go down instead, you have to cut your losses fast Letting losses run is the most serious mistake made by most investors. — William O'Neil
It has been said that a pretty face is a passport. But it's not, it's a visa, and it runs out fast. — Julie Burchill
If you run, you are a runner. It doesn't matter how fast or how far. It doesn't matter if today is your first day or if you've been running for twenty years. There is no test to pass, no license to earn, no membership card to get. You just run. — John Bingham
Jogging 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
I used to jog but the ice cubes kept falling out of my glass. — David Lee Roth
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
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
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
I'd always liked jogging because it was a place to think. — Maggie Stiefvater
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
The only reason I would take up jogging is so that I could hear heavy breathing again. — Erma Bombeck
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
Running Back Quotes
Sometimes it seem like to tell the truth today is to run the risk of being killed. But if I fall, I'll fall five feet four inches forward in the fight for freedom. I'm not backing off. — Fannie Lou Hamer
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
We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects. — Henry Melvill
The enemy has assailed my outposts in heavy force. I have fallen back on the line of Bull Run and will make a stand at Mitchell's Ford. — P. G. T. Beauregard
People ask me who he reminds me of. The way he's playing, I'd say he doesn't remind me of anybody. I've never seen anybody - running back, quarterback, wide receiver - make the plays that Vince Young made today. — Dan Fouts
God didn't give you the strength to get back on your feet so that you can run back to the same things that knocked you down. — Marvin Sapp
Different day, same s***. Ain't nothing good in the hood. I'd run away from this bitch and never come back if I could. — 50 Cent
All you umpires, back to the bleachers. Referees, hit the showers. It's my game. I pitch, I hit, I catch. I run the bases. At sunset, I've won or lost. At sunrise, I'm out again, giving it the old try. — Ray Bradbury
Technique is what you fall back on when you run out of inspiration. — Rudolf Nureyev
I was the conductor of the Underground Railroad for eight years, and I can say what most conductors can't say; I never ran my train off the track and I never lost a passenger. — Harriet Tubman
I don't want the horse to get trained, because training the horse is absolutely finite. But if you get the horse to where he operates as if to be your legs, an extension of you, you've far-exceeded that whole training notion. — Buck Brannaman
I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.' Muhammad Ali on potential — Muhammad Ali
They can crack jokes. They can sit back and analyze and criticize and make all the fun they want. But I'm living my life, I'm doing it. What are you doing? — Kai Greene
There are... for us no instincts—we no longer need the term in psychology. Everything we have been in the habit of calling an 'instinct' today is a result largely of training—belonging to man's learned behavior. — John B. Watson
I have no illusions about being a genius musician. I pride myself on being a soldier, a warrior for jazz. I trained a lot of young people, and I've learned my lessons well. I'd like to keep the flame burning. — Phil Woods
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
We all have need to be trained to see, and to have our eyes opened before we can take in the joy that is meant for us in this beautiful life. — Charlotte Mason
Each training session I'm getting better and better. I have no other duties now, no worries, it's all about training, eating and sleeping. I have a lot more time and can put a lot more effort into training. I'm feeling better every day. As long as I'm feeling myself I'm definitely in no doubt I can go to the Olympics and win. — Usain Bolt
Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry: Worry never fixes anything. — Ernest Hemingway
Joy is love exalted; peace is love in response; long-suffering is love enduring; gentleness is love in society; goodness is love in action; faith is love on the battlefield; meekness is love in tough situations; and temperance is love in training. — Dwight L. Moody
I knew the profanity used up and down my street would not go over the air... So I trained myself to say 'Holy Cow' instead. — Harry Caray
I sit before flowers hoping they will train me in the art of opening up I stand on mountain tops believing that avalanches will teach me to let go I know nothing but I am here to learn. — Shane Koyczan
True karate is this: that in daily life one's mind and body be trained and developed in a spirit of humility, and that in critical times, one be devoted utterly to the cause of justice. — Gichin Funakoshi
I am poor and naked, but I am the chief of the nation. We do not want riches but we do want to train our children right. Riches would do us no good. We could not take them with us to the other world. We do not want riches. We want peace and love. — Red Cloud
Jiu-jitsu puts you completely in the moment, where you must have a complete focus on finding a solution to the problem. This trains the mind to build that focus, to increase your awareness, your capacity to solve problems. — Rickson Gracie
We are lending money we don't have to kids who can't pay it back to train them for jobs that no longer exist. That's nuts. — Mike Rowe
When the dog is repeatedly teased with the sight of objects inducing salivary secretion from a distance, the reaction of the salivary glands grows weaker and weaker and finally drops to zero. — Ivan Pavlov
I hear you guys all the time talking about Daniel Bryan, trained by Shawn Michaels. One curious thing to me is, how come you guys never mention William Regal? William Regal did the real work with this young man. Shawn Michaels took $3,000 from him, that's all he ever did. — CM Punk
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