Runners Quotes · Page 4

Let's face it: I am not a professional runner.

— Jo Brand

I'm a runner first before anything else.

— Haile Gebrselassie

A runner is real when she takes the first step.

— Clarissa Pinkola Estes

The long run is what puts the tiger in the cat.

— Bill Squires

The obsession with running is really an obsession with the potential for more and more life.

— George A. Sheehan

The true runner comes to the finish and receives the prize and is crowned.

— Plato

I just imagine all the other runners are big spiders, and then I get super scared,

— Usain Bolt

I've never known a runner who had as much patience as he needed.

— Amby Burfoot

In the race of faith, stay focused upon Christ, not the other runners, nor the spectators.

— Steven J Lawson

Business is a sprint until you find an opportunity, then it's the patience of a marathon runner.

— Robert Herjavec

The hardest step for a runner to take is the first one out the door.

— Ron Clarke

Masters runners fare best when they designate every third week as a recovery week.

— Matt Fitzgerald

Well, fortunately we found out that the runner-up our particular year was going to get a record contract also. So it was…

— Clay Aiken

Blade Runner was an incredibly influential movie, in terms of the way that it envisioned what the future was going to look…

— Charlize Theron

Our own GOP machine, the establishment, they who would assemble the political landscape, they're attacking their own front-runner.

— Sarah Palin

There is an expression among even the most advanced runners that getting your shoes on is the hardest part of any workout

— Kathrine Switzer

The Republican front-runner, has made a name for himself in the last months by trafficking prejudice and paranoia. His latest insult is…

— Rachel Maddow

I didn't know I hit that way (.625 with runners in scoring position). Maybe not knowing is my secret. If I chased…

— Ichiro Suzuki

For every runner who tours the world running marathons, there are thousands who run to hear leaves and listen to rain and…

— George A. Sheehan

I would be disappointed if I were remembered as a runner because I feelthat my contribution to the youth of America has…

— Wilma Rudolph

There are champions in every neighborhood. Anyone can run to the very top. ANYONE! But you have to (a) start right, (b)…

— Gerry Lindgren

I've always been a decent runner so I've never been massively unfit, but for this I've got stronger. I've got rid of…

— Greg James

Life's not linear at all. It happens in lighting flashes. So fast you don't see those lay-you-out cold moments coming at you…

— Karen Marie Moning

Buzz has reduced my range. Running safely with him means using fewer and shorter routes, with multiple laps per day or multiple…

— Joe Henderson

I believe Fabio Celoni's work vividly brings to life not only the mountains, the bazaars, the city of Kabul and its kite-dotted…

— Khaled Hosseini

Having waited my entire life to get an award for something, anything...I now get awards all the time for being mentally ill.…

— Carrie Fisher

Racing's very much like the world of acting. You have your front runners and you have guys that are there for the…

— Sylvester Stallone

There is nothing in this world that I love more than my family. To be able to share the joy of running…

— Summer Sanders

I may never be happy, but tonight I am content. Nothing more than an empty house, the warm hazy weariness from a…

— Sylvia Plath

The human race is the most stupid and unfair kind of race. A lot of the runners don't even get decent sneakers…

— Banksy

Don't get discouraged. As far as I'm concerned, a positive attitude is the most important attribute any runner can have. You'll need…

— Amby Burfoot

Nearly all runners do their slow runs too fast, and their fast runs too slow." Ken Mierke says. "So they're just training…

— Christopher McDougall

When I first came into international running, most runners did about 60-70 miles or running a week. I guess that is still…

— Gerry Lindgren

For the greater a man's works for the future, the less the present can comprehend them; the harder his fight, and the…

— Adolf Hitler

It was being a runner that mattered, not how fast or how far I could run. The joy was in the act…

— John Bingham

During the First World War, I told her, Hitler had been a runner, delivering messages between the German trenches, and he was…

— Chuck Palahniuk

Some might say that it's easier to be the runner than the runner's family.

— Robert de Castella

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

— George A. Sheehan

I've always felt that long, slow distance produces long, slow runners.

— Sebastian Coe

We've got a lot of people that support, but The Runners are definitely one of my favorites.

— Ace Hood