Runners Quotes · Page 6

My first option is not to run. I am not a runner. I'm a quarterback.

— Daunte Culpepper

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

— Gabe Jennings

The nine inches right here; set it straight and you can beat anybody in the world.

— Sebastian Coe

There is no such thing as an average runner. We are all above average.

— Hal Higdon

I thought about running a marathon a long time ago, but I'm just not a runner

— Shannon Miller

I admire runners older than I - they are now my heroes. I want to be like them as I grow older.

— Frank Shorter

Good things come slow, especially in distance running.

— Bill Dellinger

If you die, I will bury you in the sandhills with all the other runners.

— Percy Cerutty

I have a particular disdain for Islamic extremism, and of course, in both 'The Kite Runner' and 'A Thousand Splendid Suns' that's…

— Khaled Hosseini

If I run I lose so much weight, which I need because you're limited on weight when you are a tall driver.…

— Jenson Button

I've never been a politician, but , I am totally committed to the Republican Party. I feel very honored to be the…

— Donald Trump

In a race, the quickest runner can never overtake the slowest, since the pursuer must first reach the point whence the pursued…

— Aristotle

Good try, ya bugging shank. The Gathering elects Runners, and if you think I'm tough, they'd laugh in your face.

— James Dashner

When I saw 'Blade Runner,' my understanding was that 'Blade Runner' and 'Alien' were sequels to each other - or they were…

— Damon Lindelof

Blade Runner was the godfather of all these fantastic movies that occur today. What's frustrating is that we're short of really great…

— Ridley Scott

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

— Tom Weiskopf

Fabio Celon did send me pages as he progressed, both in black and white and some color samples as well. It was…

— Khaled Hosseini

“Other runners try to disassociate from fatigue by blasting iPods or imagining the roar of the crowd in Olympic Stadium, but Scott…

— Christopher McDougall

Baseball players practice, runners practice, so how can you practice being funny? You get up onstage. You train as an improviser, playing…

— Ali Farahnakian

No one knows the fear in a front runner's mind more than me. When you set off at a cracking pace for…

— Ron Clarke

I make people laugh for a living. I believe I can say objectively that what I do I do as well as…

— Mel Brooks

It's amazing how much time and money can be saved in the world of dating by close attention to detail. A white…

— Helen Fielding

Speedwork is terribly overrated! I remember talking to runners after distance races and someone is sure to say they were able to…

— Gerry Lindgren

For every finish-line tape a runner breaks -- complete with the cheers of the crowd and the clicking of hundreds of cameras…

— Grete Waitz

To be a runner is to learn continual life lessons. To be a coach is not just to teach these lessons but…

— Martin Dugard

All kinds of violence on the TV. You're not supposed to watch violence on the TV. Children, they can't watch it 'cause…

— Norm MacDonald

Nearly all runners do their slow runs too fast, and their fast runs too slow." Ken Mierke says. "So they're just training…

— Christopher McDougall

Don't get discouraged. As far as I'm concerned, a positive attitude is the most important attribute any runner can have. You'll need…

— Amby Burfoot

When I first came into international running, most runners did about 60-70 miles or running a week. I guess that is still…

— Gerry Lindgren

It was being a runner that mattered, not how fast or how far I could run. The joy was in the act…

— John Bingham

For the greater a man's works for the future, the less the present can comprehend them; the harder his fight, and the…

— Adolf Hitler

If this is what you do to the winner, I'd hate to see how you treat the runner up.

— Anthony Horowitz

There's no such thing as bad weather - only the wrong clothes.

— Billy Connolly

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

— Sebastian Coe

We are just not made up to be middle distance runners.

— Alberto Juantorena

Those who saw Kite Runner loved the film, for the most part, people seemed to really like the film.

— Khaled Hosseini

Joy is the best makeup. But a little lipstick is a close runner-up.

— Anne Lamott

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

— Ridley Scott

The novel [The Kite Runner] came about as an expansion of that original, unpublished short story.

— Khaled Hosseini

Out on the roads there is fitness and self-discovery and the persons we were destined to be.

— George A. Sheehan