Browsing Topic Best Born To Run Quotes

Together, we’ll live with the sadness. I’ll love you with all the madness in my soul.

We’re still buzzin’ about Bruce Springsteen at halftime, but I’ll tell you if there was one guy we weren’t thinking was ‘Born To Run’ it was James Harrison.

After ‘Born to Run,’ I had a reaction to my good fortune. With success, it felt like a lot of people who’d come before me lost some essential part of themselves. My greatest fear was that success was going to change or diminish that part of myself.

In the day we sweat it out on the streets on a runaway American dream.

Wendy, let me in, I wanna be your friend. I wanna guard your dreams and visions.

Someday girl, I don’t know when, were gonna get to the place where we really want to go, and we’ll walk in the sun. But til then, tramps like us, baby, we were born to run.

Only recently have we come up with the technology to turn lazing around into a way of life. We’ve taken our sinewy, durable, hunter-gatherer bodies and plunked them into an artificial world of leisure.

You don’t have to be fast. But you’d better be fearless.

Perhaps all our troubles – all the violence, obesity, illness, depression, and greed we can’t overcome – began when we stopped living as Running People. Deny your nature, and it will erupt in some other, uglier way.

The only way to truly conquer something, as every great philosopher and geneticist will tell you, is to love it.

Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up, it knows it must outrun the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning in Africa, a lion wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the slowest gazelle, or it will starve. It doesn’t matter whether you’re the lion or a gazelle-when the sun comes up, you’d better be running.

We gotta get out while we’re young, ’cause tramps like us, baby we were born to run.

We’ve got a motto here-you’re tougher than you think you are, and you can do more than you think you can.

The highway’s jammed with broken heroes on a last chance power drive.

We run when we’re scared, we run when we’re ecstatic, we run away from our problems and run around for a good time.

If you don’t have answers to your problems after a four-hour run, you ain’t getting them.

Distance running was revered because it was indispensable; it was the way we survived and thrived and spread across the planet. You ran to eat and to avoid being eaten; you ran to find a mate and impress her, and with her you ran off to start a new life together. You had to love running, or you wouldn’t live to love anything else. And like everything else we love-everything we sentimentally call our ‘passions’ and ‘desires’-it’s really an encoded ancestral necessity. We were born to run; we were born because we run.

The reason we race isn’t so much to beat each other… but to be with each other.

Way before we were scratching pictures on caves or beating rhythms on hollow trees we were perfecting the art of combining our breath and mind and muscles into fluid self-propulsion over wild terrain.

If you don’t think you were born to run you’re not only denying history. You’re denying who you are.

There’s something so universal about that sensation, the way running unites our two most primal impulses: fear and pleasure. We run when we’re scared, we run when we’re ecstatic, we run away from our problems and run around for a good time.

We say the rarajipari is the game of life, ‘ Angel said. ‘You never know how hard it will be. You never know when it will end. You can’t control it. You can only adjust.

Ask nothing from your running, and you’ll get more than you ever imagined!

You don’t stop running because you get old, you get old because you stop running.

We were born to run; we were born because we run.

Well I was born to run, to get ahead of the rest. And all that I wanted was to be the best Just to feel free and be someone I was born to be fast, I was born to run .

You were born to run. Maybe not that fast, maybe not that far, maybe not as efficiently as others. But to get up and move, to fire up that entire energy-producing, oxygen-delivering, bone-strengthening process we call running.

You can always do more than you think you can.

I saw rock n’ roll future and its name is Bruce Springsteen.

I read Christopher McDougall’s book ‘Born to Run.’ If running were a religion, this would be its bible. I actually scribbled my favorite passages on my arm to read during the race.

Anytime you spend six months on a song (Born to Run), there’s something not exactly going right. A song should take about three hours.

I was born to be a runner. I simply love to run. It’s almost like the faster I go, the easier it becomes.