Browsing Topic Best Marathon Running Quotes

The body does not want you to do this. As you run, it tells you to stop but the mind must be strong. You always go too far for your body. You must handle the pain with strategy…It is not age; it is not diet. It is the will to succeed.

Run when you can, walk if you have to, crawl if you must; just never give up.

My whole feeling in terms of racing is that you have to be very bold. You sometimes have to be aggressive and gamble.

The marathon can humble you.

Just put one foot in front of the other.

There’s no such thing as bad weather – only the wrong clothes.

It hurts up to a point and then it doesn’t get any worse.

Champions do not become champions when they win the event, but in the hours, weeks, months and years they spend preparing for it. The victorious performance itself is merely the demonstration of their championship character.

It is true that speed kills. In distance running, it kills anyone who does not have it.

There’s no such thing as bad weather, just soft people.

Good things come slow, especially in distance running.

If you want to win a race you have to go a little berserk.

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.

My thoughts before a big race are usually pretty simple. I tell myself: Get out of the blocks, run your race, stay relaxed. If you run your race, you’ll win… channel your energy. Focus.

The real competition is against the little voice inside you that wants to quit

You have to forget your last marathon before you try another. Your mind can’t know what’s coming.

The difference between the mile and the marathon is the difference between burning your fingers with a match and being slowly roasted over hot coals.

Listen to your body. Do not be a blind and deaf tenant.

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.

It’s very hard in the beginning to understand that the whole idea is not to beat the other runners. Eventually you learn that the competition is against the little voice inside you that wants you to quit.

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.

Some of the world’s greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible.

Out on the roads there is fitness and self-discovery and the persons we were destined to be.

When you run the marathon, you run against the distance, not against the other runners and not against the time.

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.

If you run 100 miles a week, you can eat anything you want – Why? Because (a) you’ll burn all the calories you consume, (b) you deserve it, and (c) you’ll be injured soon and back on a restricted diet anyway.

You have a choice. You can throw in the towel, or you can use it to wipe the sweat off of your face. Gatorade ad The will to win means nothing without the will to prepare.

No doubt a brain and some shoes are essential for marathon success, although if it comes down to a choice, pick the shoes. More people finish marathons with no brains than with no shoes.

Marathon running, like golf, is a game for players, not winners. That is why Callaway sells golf clubs and Nike sells running shoes. But running is unique in that the world’s best racers are on the same course, at the same time, as amateurs, who have as much chance of winning as your average weekend warrior would scoring a touchdown in the NFL.

Stadiums are for spectators. We runners have Nature, and that is much better.

The will to win means nothing without the will to prepare.

I always loved running…. It was something you could do by yourself and under your own power.

Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.

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.

To finish will leave you feeling like a champion and positively change your life.