Runners Quotes · Page 2

Every runner has a little crazy in ‘em. It’s a good thing.

— Andrew Wheating

If you're feeling good, don't worry. You'll get over it.

— Yogi Berra

Independence is the outstanding characteristic of the runner.

— Noel Carroll

You never see a smiling runner.

— George Carlin

A runner's stride is not perfectly efficient.

— Nancy Gibbs

Run hard, be strong, think big!

— Percy Cerutty

I am an avid runner, mainly on weekends.

— Patrick Wilson

I am a lonely runner, but I am a long-distance runner.

— Louise Bourgeois

We run, not because we think it is doing us good, but because we enjoy it and cannot help ourselves

— Roger Bannister

Being a lifelong runner, knowing what running gives me, a variety of factors - that is what motivates me.

— Bill Rodgers

There is an expression among even the most advanced runners that getting your shoes on is the hardest part of any workout

— Kathrine Switzer

I swear it upon Zeus an outstanding runner cannot be the equal of an average wrestler.

— Socrates

My kids are good athletes and runners. They run in a bunch of sports.

— Scott Bakula

Some people create with words or with music or with a brush and paints. I like to make something beautiful when I…

— Steve Prefontaine

Keith Richards outlived Jim Fixx, the runner and health-nut dude. The plot thickens.

— Bill Hicks

My life and creative work are justified and completed by Blade Runner.

— Philip K. Dick

I couldn't disappoint people. I did not want to fail and exhaust myself, because I was the kind of runner who trained…

— Roger Bannister

My guess is many top athletes, distance runners included, use performance-enhancing drugs, enough so that the problem must be tackled.

— Bill Rodgers

Runners in the western world have a tendency to create psychological barriers for themselves, but Morceli runs at will, with no inhibitions.

— Eamonn Coghlan

I let my numbers speak for themselves. I really do. I mean, all of these one-cut runners, you put their numbers up…

— LeSean McCoy

I just do my best to put the ball in play and put it in play where no one's going to make…

— Joey Votto

Life's not linear at all. It happens in lighting flashes. So fast you don't see those lay-you-out cold moments coming at you…

— Karen Marie Moning

Buzz has reduced my range. Running safely with him means using fewer and shorter routes, with multiple laps per day or multiple…

— Joe Henderson

I'm not a runner, and I always dreamed about just throwing on my sneakers and really knocking everyone's socks off with my…

— Mackenzie Davis

A novel takes the courage of a marathon runner, and as long as you have to run, you might as well be…

— Leon Uris

I believe Fabio Celoni's work vividly brings to life not only the mountains, the bazaars, the city of Kabul and its kite-dotted…

— Khaled Hosseini

But most of all I was inspired by the stirring examples of all the other runners. In some pictures they would seem…

— Mark Sutcliffe

Fossil bones and footsteps and ruined homes are the solid facts of history, but the surest hints, the most enduring signs, lie…

— Jonathan Kingdon

In the Seventies, women runners, developing amenorrhea and calcium-related shin splints, were the first to realize that nature is hovering over us,…

— Camille Paglia

All the world will be your enemy, Prince of a Thousand enemies. And when they catch you, they will kill you. But…

— Richard Adams

The second [argument about motion] is the so-called Achilles, and it amounts to this, that in a race the quickest runner can…

— Zeno of Elea

Racing's very much like the world of acting. You have your front runners and you have guys that are there for the…

— Sylvester Stallone

“Between the Miles I have always counted the miles. Sometimes they came quick, Other times slow. The distance between things, The way…

— Jacqueline Simon Gunn

You're gonna die. You're gonna die. And nobody's gonna care which version of the iPhone you used to make something on Twitter,…

— Merlin Mann

A good runner leaves no footprints.

— Laozi

Tomorrow is another day, and there will be another battle!

— Sebastian Coe

The long run is what puts the tiger in the cat.

— Bill Squires

Good things come slow, especially in distance running.

— Bill Dellinger

A runner is real when she takes the first step.

— Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Runners like to train 100 miles per week because it's a round number. But I think 88 is a lot rounder.

— Don Kardong