I love running. I’m not into marathons, but I am into…

If people were possessed by reason, running marathons would never work. But we are not creatures of reason. We are creatures of passion.

— Noel Carroll

When I was first running marathons, we were sailing on a flat earth. We were afraid we'd get big legs, grow mustaches, not get…

— Kathrine Switzer

When I was running the marathons in Munich, I always trained by myself. Between the demands of graduate work and a young family, I…

— Wolfgang Ketterle

Marathons don't come to you overnight.

— Sebastian Coe

I have ten marathons under my belt, including four New York races and one Boston.

— Harvey Mackay

I got plenty of cautions that one or two of these marathons was all a man should do in a lifetime.

— Clarence DeMar

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

— George A. Sheehan

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

— Anonymous

I believe people run marathons every day of their lives in one way or another, and we need to remember to give ourselves the…

— Zoe Koplowitz

If you're on the treadmill next to me, the answer is yes...we are racing.

— Loves Running

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

— Michael Snow

If you look back at my marathons and ask whether I would swap one of them for my one balls-up, of course I would.…

— Paula Radcliffe

I have several close friends who have run marathons, a word that is actually derived from two Swahili words: mara, which means 'to die…

— Celia Rivenbark

I do a lot of marathons as training runs. If I'm somewhere and there's a marathon, I'll sign up and just go run it.

— Dean Karnazes

“The act of running is simple, one foot in front of the other. The art of becoming a runner is achieved through a new…

— Terry Lander