Runners Quotes · Page 15

When I was about 14 or 15, and running in a pretty muddy cross country race, one of my shoes stuck in…

— Robert de Castella

I am absolutely delighted to have come second. Who cares about winning when you can be second? I love being runner-up.

— Tom Weiskopf

How many more people right now feel connected to Mumbai because of Slumdog Millionaire, or suddenly are interested in the plight of…

— Khaled Hosseini

I like making comics and animation because it takes such a long time. I'm not a runner of the 100 meter. I…

— Marjane Satrapi

A short term view will lead to a partial and perhaps twisted view of the whole picture. A crucial element may be…

— Max De Pree

Mary Decker Slaney, the world greatest front runner, I shouldn't be surprised to see her at the front

— Ron Pickering

Thomas had a depressing - and scary - thought. 'Am I . . . replacing someone? Did somebody get killed?' Minho shook…

— James Dashner

I wouldn't say there was a moment of realization when I wanted to be a runner; it was always just something I…

— Ashton Eaton

The experience of writing 'The Kite Runner' is one I will always think back on with fondness. There is an energy, a…

— Khaled Hosseini

Often, I visualize a quicker, like almost a ghost runner, ahead of me with a quicker stride.

— Gabe Jennings

I rolled the second car that I ever owned, a Toyota 4 Runner. This was winter in Colorado, two weeks before the…

— Apolo Ohno

I like the old-school Warner Bros. Looney Tunes cartoons. I'm talking Wile E. Coyote, Road Runner, Bugs Bunny and Marvin the Martian!

— Colin Kaepernick

Yeah, we're working on [Blade Runner 2] right now - that will happen sooner or later.

— Ridley Scott

If you look at the sponsors who were in the sport 15 years ago compared to now there are a lot fewer.…

— Maurice Greene

Not all the Greek runners in the original Olympics were totally naked. Some wore shoes.

— Mark Twain

Marathon runners set explicit goals.

— Joseph B. Wirthlin

In the race of faith, stay focused upon Christ, not the other runners, nor the spectators.

— Steven J Lawson

High culture is nothing but a child of that European perversion called history, the obsession we have with going forward, with considering…

— Milan Kundera

Fantastic, I am very happy to be the fastest 800 metres runner in the world.

— David Rudisha

Presidential campaign getting kind of ugly, did you hear about this? Yesterday, a 27-year-old woman came for to deny rumors that she…

— Conan O'Brien

In golf, as in life, you get out of it what you put into it.

— Sam Snead

It's interesting to play that [ Thomas in The Maze Runner], actually. The audience gets to see the character discover who he…

— Dylan O'Brien

I often had to run very quickly to be on time, and from being a fleet runner was generally successful; but when…

— Charles Darwin

I want to do my Blade Runner, which is like a future Berlin film, which is like a thriller, but it's much…

— Duncan Jones

American naturalist John Burroughs put it, “A man can fail many times, but he isn’t a failure until he begins to blame…

— Jeff Olson