What I've done in this older part of my life is I started foundation called 261 Fearless, named after my old ,1967 Boston Marathon, bib number.I thought we could create training and a communicative, non-judgmental platform, in a movement to… — Kathrine Switzer Copy Share Image
If you feel positive, you have a sense of hope. If you have hope, you can have courage. — Kathrine Switzer Copy Share Image
Five years after Boston 1967, I went to the Munich Olympics. I realized that major sponsorship could help me create the opportunity. I wrote… — Kathrine Switzer Copy Share Image
A lack of forgiveness is a waste of time and it's very enriching to forgive and move on but those are things that come… — Kathrine Switzer Copy Share Image
I could feel my anger dissipating as the miles went by--you can't run and stay mad! — Kathrine Switzer Copy Share Image
There is an expression among even the most advanced runners that getting your shoes on is the hardest part of any workout — Kathrine Switzer Copy Share Image
Most people don't know this but over the course of time, the official of the race in 1967 in Boston, who attacked me Jock… — Kathrine Switzer Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Women were afraid and they would never even imagine running a marathon in 1967. — Kathrine Switzer Copy Share Image
I organized this global series of races. The data from those races, along with the tremendous amount of lobbying and meetings with federations, convinced… — Kathrine Switzer Copy Share Image
I don't have any kids of my own, quite by choice. There are two reasons for that. One, I had a sense of obligation for what my life would be and a vision of how to get that accomplished and it didn't include children. It's not that I don't like them, it's just that if you have them, they deserve… — Kathrine Switzer Copy Share
If you are losing faith in human nature, go out and watch a marathon. — Kathrine Switzer Copy Share Image
I said that there's going to come a day in our lives when women's running is as popular and as men's. Looking back, I… — Kathrine Switzer Copy Share Image
