Marathon Quotes · Page 7

If you insist on the chase then you'd better start running 'cause dude, you're in for a marathon

— Cassandra Clare

No negative thoughts cross my mind on race day. When I look into their eyes, I know I'm going to beat them.

— Danny Harris

All top international athletes wake up in the morning feeling tired and go to bed feeling very tired.

— Brendan Foster

What kind of crazy nut would spend two or three hours a day just running?

— Steve Prefontaine

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

— Sebastian Coe

Yesterday was the New York City Marathon. Republicans won in a landslide.

— David Letterman

If you're going to run a marathon you don't just go out there and run 20 miles on Day 1, you build…

— Chris Sale

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

— George A. Sheehan

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

— Jerry Lynch

I was thinking back to all the time in the gym, working hard, and that spurred me on [winning New York marathon…

— Paula Radcliffe

Since I was forty and definitely slipping, I have won seven full marathons, got second six times, and third four times… I'm…

— Clarence DeMar

Look at your ministry as a marathon not a sprint - build deep foundations of intimacy with God and never let your…

— Vicky Beeching

Running for office is similar to being a trial lawyer in a very long trial. It requires adrenaline and stamina; it requires…

— Kamala Harris

I think a tennis match is a marathon. You have to sit down and have food for the next three hours, if…

— Patrick Mouratoglou

It's kind of like a midlife crisis kind of thing. When you turn 40, you have to run the marathon, while all…

— Joe Bastianich

I've run the Boston Marathon 6 times before. I think the best aspects of the marathon are the beautiful changes of the…

— Haruki Murakami

This wasn’t just an attack against the Boston Marathon... It was an attack against the American public and our democratic use of…

— Amby Burfoot

Until we fully understand what turned two brothers who allegedly perpetrated the Boston Marathon bombings into murderers, it is hard to make…

— Thomas Friedman

Running a marathon is appealing to runners for many reasons. It's epic! A real test for your mind and body and a…

— A. J. Odudu

I think animation is like running a marathon, and making a movie is like a 100 meter sprint. The question is: are…

— Marjane Satrapi

The most important thing is to understand that this career is not about speed. It's about stamina. This is a marathon. It's…

— Jaime Camil

What I've done in this older part of my life is I started foundation called 261 Fearless, named after my old ,1967…

— Kathrine Switzer

And when those bombs went off, there were runners who, after finishing a marathon, kept running for another two miles to the…

— Stephen Colbert

I am a runner. Last October, there was a marathon here in Beijing. I didn't participate this time, but friends told me…

— Zhang Xin

Second place is not a defeat. It is a stimulation to get better. It makes you even more determined.

— Carlos Lopes

I'm so happy to have done this, and now I can say I ran the New York City Marathon.

— Caroline Wozniacki

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

— Robert Herjavec

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

— Harvey Mackay

I ran a 100-mile marathon, and I was powered by coconut water.

— Jesse Itzler

TV is, as I'm discovering now, a marathon. You have to keep going and going and going.

— Jonathan Nolan

I ran my first marathon in Florida in 1985. I had never run more than nine miles.

— Kim Alexis

“a runner can never see the finish line in the middle of a marathon,”

— Henry Cloud

Marathon running, for me, was the most controlled test of mettle that I could ever think of. It's you against Darwin.

— Ryan Reynolds

I don't sleep at night at all. Making movies is a marathon. I'm a good 100-yard-dash guy.

— Gary David Goldberg

Do you think I'd be stupid enough to go running with someone I was foolin' with?

— William J. Clinton

“Life isn’t a hundred-meter race against your friends, but a lifelong marathon against yourself.”

— Haemin Sunim

Women were afraid and they would never even imagine running a marathon in 1967.

— Kathrine Switzer

I always do an all-night horror marathon on Saturdays where we start at seven and go until five in the morning.

— Quentin Tarantino

It's not easy to run a marathon, I know it will be painful but when I start it, I know I'm going…

— Fauja Singh

I have to change a lot of things before I become a good marathon runner.

— Haile Gebrselassie