Running funny Quotes

Stadiums are for spectators. We runners have Nature, and that is much better.

— Juha Vaatainen

The five S's of sports training are: stamina, speed, strength, skill, and spirit; but the greatest of these is spirit.

— Ken Doherty

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

— Sebastian Coe

Run hard, be strong, think big!

— Percy Cerutty

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

— George A. Sheehan

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

— Billy Connolly

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

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

— Don Kardong

I always loved running.... It was something you could do by yourself and under your own power.

— Jesse Owens

If you can't win, make the one ahead of you break the record.

— John McKeithen

Good things come slow, especially in distance running.

— Bill Dellinger

It doesn't matter whether you are a lion or a gazelle. When the sun comes up, you better be running.

— Abe Gubegna

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

— Roger Bannister

There are as many reasons for running as there are days in a year.... But mostly I run because I am an…

— George A. Sheehan

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

— Sebastian Coe

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

— Sam Snead

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

Cross Country: No half times, no time outs, no substitutions. It must be the only true sport.

— Chuck Norris

Go in any direction..seeking out new sights just on the strength of your feet and the courage of your lungs.

— Paula Radcliffe

You have to forget your last marathon before you try another. Your mind can't know what's coming.

— Frank Shorter

No doubt a brain and some shoes are essential for marathon success, although if it comes down to a choice, pick the…

— Don Kardong

It is true that speed kills. In distance running, it kills anyone who does not have it.

— Brooks Johnson

The only tactics I admire are do-or-die

— Herb Elliott

Don't bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself.

— William Faulkner