Marathon Quotes · Page 6

I do a lot of challenges I run marathons and stuff like that and I like to challenge myself.

— Michael Snow

Runners don't run with their legs, they run ON their legs. In reality, they run with their Arms!

— Percy Cerutty

I did a movie called Marathon Man and it was one of my best memories.

— Dustin Hoffman

I've run a marathon - I think that's the most surprising thing about me.

— Richard Herring

Marathon runners with bad shoes suffer the agony of de feet.

— Anonymous

I ran a marathon, completed a mud run and jumped from a plane.

— Kyle Carpenter

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

— Kathrine Switzer

Marathons are hard because of the physical pain, the pounding on the muscles, joints, tendons.

— Lance Armstrong

“Success breeds success on a marathon route. If you can prove to yourself that you are doing well, then invariably you will…

— Phil Hewitt

The starting line of the New York City marathon is kind of a giant time bomb behind you about to go off.…

— Bill Rodgers

“At that moment, I honestly didn’t believe that I was physically or mentally able to run a marathon. But the only way…

— Rich Roll

When using the run-walk method to finish a marathon, the most important walk break comes in the first mile. The second most…

— Jeff Galloway

If you're ninety-five percent of the way to outstanding success, doesn't it make sense to go the additional five percent of the…

— Ralph Marston

Comedy Central made me delete the Boston Marathon joke. I wasn't happy about it but, despite popular belief, I can occasionally be…

— Anthony Jeselnik

You work for so long on a graphic novel that it's easy to question your ideas or to burn out on drawing.…

— Vera Brosgol

Mary Keitany from Kenya won the women's race at the New York City Marathon. You can tell she was fast because guys…

— David Letterman

What I think a lot of great marathon runners do is envision crossing that finish line. Visualization is critical. But for me,…

— Bill Rancic

Five years after Boston 1967, I went to the Munich Olympics. I realized that major sponsorship could help me create the opportunity.…

— Kathrine Switzer

Every runner has a specific motivation and inspiration for running a marathon. This year, all 36,000 of us will 'run together' to…

— Meb Keflezighi

...heroine: the artist, the premier mistress writhering in a garden graced w/highly polished blades of grass... release (ethiopium) is the drug...an animal…

— Patti Smith

Running a marathon is unlike anything I have done. You can recall all those bad weights sessions or the work you had…

— Edwin van der Sar

It's not that your back hurts, .. You get these horrible, ice cream brain-freeze headaches. So I would go in on the…

— George Clooney

Jock Semple and I were at daggers drawn for five years, even though I kind of forgave him from the get-go. I…

— Kathrine Switzer

I think I liked writing a novel better. Obviously, it's more rewarding. It's that marathon thing where it sucks when you're doing…

— Drew Magary

Judging a child taking his first steps for not being able to run a marathon is shortsighted.

— Tyler Winklevoss

Congratulations on running a marathon without having to stop for a heart attack.

— Anonymous

To me, drum soloing is like doing a marathon and solving equations at the same time.

— Neil Peart

Life is a marathon, not a sprint; pace yourself accordingly.

— Amby Burfoot

Of all the races, there is no better stage for heroism than a marathon.

— George A. Sheehan

Writing a book is like running a marathon. You need to be fit to do it, mentally and, as far as possible,…

— Catherine Mayer

I have to change a lot of things before I become a good marathon runner.

— Haile Gebrselassie

It's not easy to run a marathon, I know it will be painful but when I start it, I know I'm going…

— Fauja Singh

I always do an all-night horror marathon on Saturdays where we start at seven and go until five in the morning.

— Quentin Tarantino

Women were afraid and they would never even imagine running a marathon in 1967.

— Kathrine Switzer

“Life isn’t a hundred-meter race against your friends, but a lifelong marathon against yourself.”

— Haemin Sunim

Do you think I'd be stupid enough to go running with someone I was foolin' with?

— William J. Clinton

I don't sleep at night at all. Making movies is a marathon. I'm a good 100-yard-dash guy.

— Gary David Goldberg

Marathon running, for me, was the most controlled test of mettle that I could ever think of. It's you against Darwin.

— Ryan Reynolds

“a runner can never see the finish line in the middle of a marathon,”

— Henry Cloud

I ran my first marathon in Florida in 1985. I had never run more than nine miles.

— Kim Alexis