Training for a marathon Quotes

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

— Juha Vaatainen

To describe the agony of a marathon to someone who's never run it is like trying to explain color to someone who…

— Jerome Drayton

A lot of people don't realize that not everybody gets high.

— Molly Ringwald

I find that I get a little depressed if I don't move my body each day, so sometimes it's just as simple…

— Ryan Reynolds

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

— Bill Squires

The mile has all the elements of a drama.

— Roger Bannister

Few things in life match the thrill of a marathon.

— Fred Lebow

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

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

— Steve Prefontaine

You shall become the person you are.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The mile has a classic symmetry....It's a play in four acts.

— John Landy

The body does not want you to do this. As you run, it tells you to stop but the mind must be…

— Jacqueline Gareau

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

— Don Kardong

Having a true faith is the most difficult thing in the world. Many will try to take it from you.

— Steve Prefontaine

The gun goes off and everthing changes... the world changes... and nothing else really matters.

— PattiSue Plumer

Those who say that I will lose and am finished will have to run over my body to beat me.

— Said Aouita

Top results are achieved only through pain. But eventually you like this pain.

— Juha Vaatainen

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

— Jesse Owens

Training for a marathon is much like climbing a ladder. Each ring is a short-term goal that must be met in sequence…

— Richard Benyo

Good things come slow, especially in distance running.

— Bill Dellinger

I actually just did a workout with Jared Fogle from Subway. He's training for a marathon, so we went through a little…

— Blake Griffin

Marathon running is a terrible experience: monotonous, heavy, and exhausting.

— Veikko Karvonen

Onions make me sad. A lot of people don't realize that.

— Mitch Hedberg

A lot of people don't realize that about 98 percent of the running I put in is anything but glamorous: 2 percent…

— Robert de Castella