Runners Quotes · Page 3

A runner's stride is not perfectly efficient.

— Nancy Gibbs

I'm a tired runner in the human race.

— Huey Lewis

Long slow distance makes long slow runners.

— Jim Bush

[We] have sex like Kenyan marathon runners.

— Olivia Wilde

Run hard, be strong, think big!

— Percy Cerutty

Attitude determines how well you do it.

— Lou Holtz

I am an avid runner, mainly on weekends.

— Patrick Wilson

A good runner leaves no footprints.

— Laozi

For me, as for so many runners, there really are no finish lines. Runs end; running doesn't.

— Dean Karnazes

I was a runner, a failed quarterback, third-string quarterback, but in track I was a 2-miler.

— Bob Seger

If you can't win, make the one ahead of you break the record.

— John McKeithen

Base runners in postseason games are kind of tough to deal with at times.

— Gerrit Cole

[Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns] is not just unique to books, but films and music.

— Khaled Hosseini

The Kite Runner is a story of two boys and a father, and the strange love triangle that binds them.

— Khaled Hosseini

Keith Richards outlived Jim Fixx, the runner and health-nut dude. The plot thickens.

— Bill Hicks

My life and creative work are justified and completed by Blade Runner.

— Philip K. Dick

“There are some people who think runners are snobs. These people are called non-runners. And they're right, of course. There is a…

— Jennifer Graham

I wouldn't say there was a moment of realization when I wanted to be a runner; it was always just something I…

— Ashton Eaton

American naturalist John Burroughs put it, “A man can fail many times, but he isn’t a failure until he begins to blame…

— Jeff Olson

“Runners feel a little guilty when we bail out on relationships that some of our dearest friends would stay in. They would…

— Crystal V. Quintero

I know runners who have suffered a tick bite and ended up with Lyme disease. I'll take an angry moose any day.

— Don Kardong

I'm not a runner, and I always dreamed about just throwing on my sneakers and really knocking everyone's socks off with my…

— Mackenzie Davis

Even for runners who never make the transition to more sophisticated workouts, easing into speedwork will lead to more enjoyable running.

— Don Kardong

I also felt The Kite Runner was a story that would lend itself well to a visual retelling in a graphic novel.

— Khaled Hosseini

US Cycling is doing a lot now with camps in different towns or different regions, but I think a great place, and…

— Kristin Armstrong

Especially with sports cars, when you have got so many cars on the track with various degrees of competitiveness, then something will…

— Allan McNish

I got all the respect in the world for the front-runners in this race, but ask yourself: If we replace a Democratic…

— Rick Perry

One of the most painful things for me was Jay Leno, Jay Leno going back on the air and saying to people…

— Edward Allen Bernero

But most of all I was inspired by the stirring examples of all the other runners. In some pictures they would seem…

— Mark Sutcliffe

One time I snuck a ball on with me and when I went to winding up, I threw one of them balls…

— Satchel Paige

Running is a road to self-awareness and reliance-you can push yourself to extremes and learn the harsh reality of your physical and…

— Doris Brown Heritage

Winning is not about headlines and hardware [medals]. It's only about attitude. A winner is a person who goes out today and…

— Amby Burfoot

We've forgotten much. How to struggle, how to rise to dizzy heights and sink to unparalleled depths. We no longer aspire to…

— Richard Matheson

High culture is nothing but a child of that European perversion called history, the obsession we have with going forward, with considering…

— Milan Kundera

If you want to really sort of quantify the dereliction of the Republican establishment, those two facts are the most important two…

— Chris Hayes

“What's important to recognize is that in the U.S. today, tens of millions of kids start life on a uneven playing field.…

— Chelsea Clinton

Man is like a tree. If you stand in front of a tree and watch it incessantly, to see how it grows,…

— Martin Buber

Beautifully written, intensely passionate and gripping, FALLEN grabbed me from the first sentence and didn’t let go. Its eerie future world and…

— Linnea Sinclair

To be a runner is to learn continual life lessons. To be a coach is not just to teach these lessons but…

— Martin Dugard

All kinds of violence on the TV. You're not supposed to watch violence on the TV. Children, they can't watch it 'cause…

— Norm MacDonald