Inspirational running Quotes · Page 3

I am too tired, even to be happy.

— Gelindo Bordin

Listen to your body. Do not be a blind and deaf tenant.

— George A. Sheehan

Make the mind run the body. Never let the body tell the mind what to do. The body will always give up.

— George S. Patton

Almost every part of the mile is tactically important: you can never let down, never stop thinking, and you can be beaten…

— John Landy

A star can win any game; a team can win every game.

— Jack Ramsay

If you train your mind for running, everything else will be easy.

— Amby Burfoot

When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this - you haven't.

— Anonymous

The body does not want you to do this. As you run, it tells you to stop but the mind must be…

— Jacqueline Gareau

Running is 80 percent mental.

— Joan Benoit

Once you have decided that winning isn't everything, you become a winner.

— George A. Sheehan

The thing that makes [Bob] Kennedy so good is that he doesn't have a fear of losing. He was willing to go…

— Frank Shorter

Concentrate on small segments of your race at a time. For example, rather than obsessing about the distance that remains, simply complete…

— Jerry Lynch

My whole feeling in terms of racing is that you have to be very bold. You sometimes have to be aggressive and…

— Bill Rodgers

Methinks that the moment my legs began to move, my thoughts began to flow.

— Henry David Thoreau

When you run in places you visit, you encounter things you'd never see otherwise.

— Tom Brokaw

If you run 100 miles a week, you can eat anything you want - Why? Because (a) you'll burn all the calories…

— Don Kardong

If you are losing faith in human nature, go out and watch a marathon.

— Kathrine Switzer

Bid me run, and I will strive with things impossible.

— William Shakespeare

So much in life seems inflexible and unchangeable, and part of the joy of running and especially racing is the realization that…

— Nancy Anderson

Sweat cleanses from the inside. It comes from places a shower will never reach.

— George A. Sheehan

It's my own space, my own time, when I'm just out there letting my thoughts go. It's part of my day like…

— Louise Andrews Kent

Failing to prepare is preparing to fail.

— John Wooden

The desire to run comes from deep within us — from the unconscious, the intuitive, the instinctive. And that desire becomes a…

— George A. Sheehan

I've always taken the philosophy that you have to dream a little in this sport. If you stay in your comfort zone,…

— Deena Kastor

Runners are the ultimate celebration people. Running is just so intense, you're really experiencing life to the fullest.

— Bill Rodgers