Amazing Quote by Ash Sweeney

There is a unique energy surrounding the Boston Marathon that you can't help but feel. It includes every runner and every person along the…

— Amy Hastings

Of all the races, there is no better stage for heroism than a marathon.

— George A. Sheehan

The marathon is like a bullfight.

— Alberto Salazar

Runners exalt the marathon as a public test of private will, when months or years of solitary training, early mornings, lost weekends, rain and…

— Nancy Gibbs

I believe people run marathons every day of their lives in one way or another, and we need to remember to give ourselves the…

— Zoe Koplowitz

Marathon runners set explicit goals.

— Joseph B. Wirthlin

I think that's kind of nice that there's this kind of inherent respect between runners who do a marathon. People respect somebody who has…

— Paul Sparks

The marathon is a charismatic event. It has everything. It has drama, competition, camaraderie & heroism

— Fred Lebow

The distance runner is mysteriously reconciling the separations of body and mind, of pain and pleasure, of the conscious and the unconscious. He is…

— Anonymous

When I go to the Boston Marathon now, I have wet shoulders—women fall into my arms crying. They're weeping for joy because running has…

— Kathrine Switzer

Race, what is that? Race is a competition, somebody winning and somebody losing. Blood doesn't run in races! Come on!

— Beah Richards

The New York Marathon: a fantastic event.

— Pope John Paul II