Long distance running is particularly good training in perseverance. — Mao Zedong
Running a marathon is just like reading a good book. After a while you're just not conscious of the physical act of reading. — Frank Shorter
Training can be monotonous, and it is hard work, but you never lose sight of why you are doing it. Every single effort of every single session counts in the months and years leading up to a big event. — Chris Hoy
If you train your mind for running, everything else will be easy. — Amby Burfoot
If you want to run, run a mile. If you want to experience a different life, run a marathon. — Emil Zatopek
There is a great advantage in training under unfavorable conditions. It is better to train under bad conditions, for the difference is then a tremendous relief in a race. — Emil Zatopek
Few things in life match the thrill of a marathon. — Fred Lebow
There is a special mystique about the marathon, for example, because of its length-but that's just the bit you do at the end of an Ironman — Chrissie Wellington
I always tell beginning runners: Train your brain first. It's much more important than your heart or legs. — Amby Burfoot
The best way to become a mentally tough runner is to believe that you're a mentally tough runner — Ryan Hall
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
When you run the marathon, you run against the distance, not against the other runners and not against the time. — Haile Gebrselassie
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
The marathon is a charismatic event. It has everything. It has drama. It has competition. Every jogger can't dream of being an Olympic champion, but he can dream of finishing a marathon. — Fred Lebow
Marathon Quotes
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 are losing faith in human nature, go out and watch a marathon. — Kathrine Switzer
Like the marathon, life can sometimes be difficult, challenging and present obstacles, however if you believe in your dreams and never ever give up, things will turn out for the best. — Meb Keflezighi
Train yourself to let go of everything you fear to lose.
Rincewind had always been happy to think of himself as a racist. The One Hundred Meters, the Mile, the Marathon -- he'd run them all. — Terry Pratchett
Running is the greatest metaphor for life, because you get out of it what you put into it. — Oprah Winfrey
Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired. — Jules Renard
Your strongest muscle
There's no way to become great overnight, but in the marathon of success, it takes a lot of intention to see you through each day of the journey. — Lewis Howes
Don't listen to negative influences. Believe in yourself, and show others what you can do. Only "you" can find your potential. — Marla Runyan
Life is often compared to a marathon, but I think it is more like being a sprinter; long stretches of hard work punctuated by brief moments in which we are given the opportunity to perform at our best. — Michael Johnson
I completed five half marathons in 2002. — Wim Hof
Marathon Runners Quotes
Go in any direction..seeking out new sights just on the strength of your feet and the courage of your lungs. — Paula Radcliffe
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
I always loved running.... It was something you could do by yourself and under your own power. — Jesse Owens
Education is not the learning of facts, it's rather the training of the mind to think.
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
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
Champions train, losers complain.
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. — Jerome Drayton
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
You have to forget your last marathon before you try another. Your mind can't know what's coming. — Frank Shorter
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
In long-distance running the only opponent you have to beat is yourself, the way you used to be. — Haruki Murakami
Education is not the learning of facts, but the training of the mind to think.
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
If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry. Worry never fixes anything.
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
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
If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it. — Michael Jordan
Champions train. Losers complain.
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
When steam first began to pump and wheels go round at so many revolutions per minute, what are called business habits were intended to make the life of man run in harmony with the steam engine, and his movement rival the train in punctuality. — George William Russell
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
Think about running an iron man. You have to toughen up... you literally have to change your body to be capable of doing those things. It's the same thing with the mind. You have to train your mind to be capable of sticking through, of working crazy long hours, learning things you don't want to do. — Tom Bilyeu
Half Marathons Quotes
Concentrate on small segments of your race at a time. For example, rather than obsessing about the distance that remains, simply complete the next mile in good form...try another, then another, until the race is done. — Jerry Lynch
If you feel bad at 10 miles, you're in trouble. If you feel bad at 20 miles, you're normal. If you don't feel bad at 26 miles, you're abnormal. — Robert de Castella
The marathon is a charismatic event. It has everything. It has drama, competition, camaraderie & heroism — Fred Lebow
There's an old adage that for every second too fast per mile in the first half of the race, you'll run at least 2 seconds slower at the end. — Jeff Galloway
A half marathon is a good way to have a bit of fun and race against those girls and learn a bit more about them.The world half marathon is a world championship at the end of the day and it's important. I've win it twice and it's a quality event. — Paula Radcliffe
There is nothing in this world that I love more than my family. To be able to share the joy of running with them at the Runner's World Half Marathon and Running Festival where we can all participate together is as close as you can get to a perfect weekend. — Summer Sanders
I am happy that I ran the half-marathon, but to me, just running and saying that I finished a race isn't enough for me. I want to run the race as best as I can. Working out for pants size isn't enough. I need a goal or a race to get back on the treadmill every day. — Drew Carey
Most people have this perception that you have to be out there running for an hour and a half every day. But you don't have to give up your career and family to run a marathon. — Jeff Galloway
I want to encourage people to make healthy life choices, whether it's training for a half-marathon, or eating more vegetables. — Kina Grannis
It can be said that the first half of the marathon is 20 miles long; the second half, 6.2 more. — Hal Higdon
Training For The Olympics Quotes
I didn't train to make the Olympic team until 1968. I simply trained for the moment. I never even imagined I would be an Olympic athlete. It always seemed to evolve. — Dick Fosbury
A lot of the Olympic games just boil down to genetics. Michael Phelps is genetically built to swim better than other people if he trains the same way. You might as well have a competition for who's the tallest, and act like it's anyone's game! — Doug Stanhope
I've been training super hard at the Lopez Taekwondo Academy in Houston, which belongs to my brother Jean. For me, I think confidence is the biggest thing; it's all mental. I train with the best of the best, including my brother Steven, a five-time world champion who won Olympic gold medals. — Diana Lopez
Seriously, the Olympic badminton players were apparently trying to lose on purpose, a big story. But really, think about it, if you train day and night for four years to be in the Olympics for badminton, in a way, haven't you already lost? — Conan O'Brien
I was always a fan but me and Kevin Pattero, he was a friend of mine who trained for the Olympic games in 1972 he and I became very close friends and roommates and I kind of rode his coattails into the business. — Ric Flair
Harder than training for the Olympics, harder than graduating from college, has been to stay a virgin before marriage. — Lolo Jones
I started in law school in '71 and graduated in '74. So I was training for the Olympics, running or averaging around 20 miles a day and going to law school full time. — Frank Shorter
You have to train your mind like you train your body. — Bruce Jenner
Training with Bela and Marta Karolyi took the joy out of the Olympics for me. I look back and feel there was a lot of verbal and physical abuse. For years, I felt it was my problem. — Dominique Moceanu
Training for the Olympics was a lifelong endeavor and took many years. — Kristi Yamaguchi
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
The woods are lovely, dark, and deep but I have promises to keep... — Robert Frost
It hurts up to a point and then it doesn't get any worse. — Ann Trason
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
Mental will is a muscle that needs exercise, just like the muscles of the body. — Lynn Jennings
Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run. — Rudyard Kipling
Success isn't how far you got, but the distance you traveled from where you started. — Steve Prefontaine
Running hills breaks up your rhythm and forces your muscles to adapt to new stresses. The result? You become stronger. — Eamonn Coghlan
Big occasions and races which have been eagerly anticipated almost to the point of dread, are where great deeds can be accomplished. — Jack Lovelock
It is true that speed kills. In distance running, it kills anyone who does not have it. — Brooks Johnson
Ultra Marathon Quotes
Just put one foot in front of the other. — Austin Peck
The human body is capable of amazing physical deeds. If we could just free ourselves from our perceived limitations and tap into our internal fire, the possibilities are endless. — Dean Karnazes
I run because if I didn’t, I’d be sluggish and glum and spend too much time on the couch. I run to breathe the fresh air. I run to explore. I run to escape the ordinary. I run…to savor the trip along the way. Life becomes a little more vibrant, a little more intense. I like that. — Dean Karnazes
The real competition is against the little voice inside you that wants to quit — George A. Sheehan
It is not the critic who counts...The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena. — Theodore Roosevelt
So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat. — Theodore Roosevelt
There is magic in misery. Just ask any runner. — Dean Karnazes
I run because it's my passion, and not just a sport. — Sasha Azevedo
If it felt good, you didn't push hard enough. It's supposed to hurt like hell. — Dean Karnazes
I run to breathe the fresh air. I run to explore. I run to escape the ordinary. — Dean Karnazes
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
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
I find that I get a little depressed if I don't move my body each day, so sometimes it's just as simple as walking, and other times it's training for a marathon or some kind of personal goal that I'm trying to meet. — Ryan Reynolds
Some people create with words or with music or with a brush and paints. I like to make something beautiful when I run — Steve Prefontaine
Marathon running is a terrible experience: monotonous, heavy, and exhausting. — Veikko Karvonen
The mile has all the elements of a drama. — Roger Bannister
There are as many reasons for running as there are days in a year.... But mostly I run because I am an animal and a child. — George A. Sheehan
I think comedy is the most difficult thing in the world, I really do. — Martha Graham
A doable goal for me is to finish a marathon under four hours. I'm doing all the training, but the hardest part is eating right. — Sean Astin
If you insist on the chase," I say, my voice much surer than I feel."Then you better start training. 'Cause, dude you're in for a marathon. — Alyson Noel
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