“Distance running demands a brain-body connection that no other creature is capable of.” — Christopher McDougall Copy Share Image
“The research is very clear: around 50% of distance runners at any given time are injured.” — Matthew Silver Copy Share Image
In the achievement of greater performances, of beating formidable rivals, the athlete defeats fear and conquers himself. — Franz Stampfl Copy Share Image
In long-distance running the only opponent you have to beat is yourself, the way you used to be. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The obsession with running is really an obsession with the potential for more and more life. — George A. Sheehan Copy Share Image
Some people create with words or with music or with a brush and paints. I like to make something beautiful when I… — Steve Prefontaine Copy Share Image
We run, not because we think it is doing us good, but because we enjoy it and cannot help ourselves — Roger Bannister Copy Share Image
Those who say that I will lose and am finished will have to run over my body to beat me. — Said Aouita Copy Share Image
“There was something terribly sad, yet terribly uplifting, about watching this prophet of the ancient art of distance running turning his back… — Christopher McDougall Copy Share Image
“The point is whether or not I improved over yesterday. In long-distance running the only opponent you have to beat is yourself,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
My thoughts before a big race are usually pretty simple. I tell myself: Get out of the blocks, run your race, stay… — Carl Lewis Copy Share Image
“I'm no great runner, by any means. I'm at an ordinary - or perhaps more like mediocre- level.But that's not the point.… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I guess I am basically most comfortable when I'm alone. As a kid, I was very much a loner. I love long… — Kevin Conroy Copy Share Image
I did javelin, swimming, long distance running. But the reason I did these other sports was because of boxing. I didn't want… — Daniel Dubois Copy Share Image
There are as many reasons for running as there are days in the year, years in my life. But mostly I run… — George A. Sheehan Copy Share Image
In general, any form of exercise, if pursued continuously, will help train us in perseverance. Long-distance running is particularly good training in… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
I have a saying 'train, don't strain.' The Americans have the saying 'no pain, no gain' and that's why they have no… — Arthur Lydiard Copy Share Image
Distance running was revered because it was indispensable; it was the way we survived and thrived and spread across the planet. You… — Christopher McDougall Copy Share Image
Being on a major network television show is like long-distance running: You have to pace yourself and maintain your energy level and… — Kathryn Erbe Copy Share Image
A lot of people don't realize that about 98 percent of the running I put in is anything but glamorous: 2 percent… — Robert de Castella Copy Share Image
I love short stories. They're like small imploding universes. They are very tightly bound and controlled. I'd been wanting to write one… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
The essential thing in life is not so much conquering as fighting well. — Pierre de Coubertin Copy Share Image
Stadiums are for spectators. We runners have Nature, and that is much better. — Juha Vaatainen Copy Share Image
I enjoyed the discipline and solitariness of long-distance running, which allowed me to escape from the hurly-burly of school life. — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Distance running to a professional athlete in my day was five laps around the field. And you stopped each lap to take… — Lynn Swann Copy Share Image
Workouts are like brushing my teeth; I don't think about them, I just do them. The decision has already been made. — PattiSue Plumer Copy Share Image
It is true that speed kills. In distance running, it kills anyone who does not have it. — Brooks Johnson Copy Share Image
Everybody in middle-distance running knows each other, and we all know what we are capable of. — Mo Farah Copy Share Image
Dream barriers look very high until someone climbs them. They are not barriers anymore. — Lasse Viren Copy Share Image
Everyone is an athlete. The only difference is that some of us are in training, and some are not. — George A. Sheehan Copy Share Image
To describe the agony of a marathon to someone who's never run it is like trying to explain color to someone who… — Jerome Drayton Copy Share Image
