Dean Karnazes

Don't run with your legs, run with your heart.

— Dean Karnazes

Once you permit yourself to compromise, you fail yourself.

— Dean Karnazes

Go out hard and finish harder.

— Dean Karnazes

If you keep chasing your dreams, one day you'll catch them.

— Dean Karnazes

Sure I'm cut but not for the sake of vanity...

— Dean Karnazes

Sometimes you've got to go through hell to get to heaven.

— Dean Karnazes

Any goal worth achieving involves an element of risk.

— Dean Karnazes

I run because it always takes me where I want to go.

— Dean Karnazes

The only one who can tell you "You can't" is you. And you don't have to listen.-Nike

— Dean Karnazes

“When we pass them, show no signs of weakness. Look strong.”

— Dean Karnazes

I'm not trying to take more of the pie for myself. I'm trying to make the pie larger for everyone.

— Dean Karnazes

A lot of ultramarathoners are soloists. They're single and live lives off the grid.

— Dean Karnazes

I run to breathe the fresh air. I run to explore. I run to escape the ordinary.

— Dean Karnazes

We have killed our souls with comfort instead of seeking fulfillment and achievement.

— Dean Karnazes

Run when you can, walk if you have to, crawl if you must; just never give up.

— Dean Karnazes

Running is about finding your inner peace, and so is a life well lived.

— Dean Karnazes

Unless you're not pushing yourself, you're not living to the fullest. You can't be afraid to fail, but unless you fail, you…

— Dean Karnazes

Beyond racing, I just love the art form of running, of conceiving new ideas like the 50 Marathons in 50 States in…

— Dean Karnazes

Toeing the starting line of a marathon, regardless of the language you speak, the God you worship or the color of your…

— Dean Karnazes

Endurance running was my passion, my ride. So here, I was in the driver's seat, running for two days straight pushing the…

— Dean Karnazes

“I have found my church, and it is at the end of a long trail on a distant mountainship. It is there…

— Dean Karnazes

Runners are competitive folks. I think some might feel slighted they haven't got more recognition. I think they have a point. In…

— Dean Karnazes

Running is a simple, primitive act, and therein lays its power. For it is one of the few commonalities left between us…

— Dean Karnazes

I love surfing, rock climbing, cycling - all that stuff. But it's just amazing that I can inspire people with my running.…

— Dean Karnazes

I eat nothing that's processed or refined - no high-fructose corn syrup, no sugar, no trans-fats. I eat a lot of fish…

— Dean Karnazes

I run because if I didn’t, I’d be sluggish and glum and spend too much time on the couch. I run to…

— Dean Karnazes

I run because long after my footprints fade away, maybe I will have inspired a few to reject the easy path, hit…

— Dean Karnazes

Never, however, do I take shortcuts. There is not path of least resistance in my training. What I do equates to hard…

— Dean Karnazes

As long as my heart's still in it, I'll keep going. If the passion's there, why stop?... There'll likely be a point…

— Dean Karnazes

“Most people never get there. They're afraid or unwilling to demand enough of themselves and take the easy road, the path of…

— Dean Karnazes

Running unites us and brings us together because, in the words of the great Bill Rogers, "We sweat the same. We struggle…

— Dean Karnazes

If someone had said to me before I started doing this that a human being is capable of running 100 miles nonstop,…

— Dean Karnazes

There is magic in misery. Just ask any runner.

— Dean Karnazes

When all else fails, start running!

— Dean Karnazes

Pain is the body's way of ridding itself of weakness.

— Dean Karnazes

For me, as for so many runners, there really are no finish lines. Runs end; running doesn't.

— Dean Karnazes

When I ran across America, for 75 days I ate 10,000 calories a day. I still lost about five pounds.

— Dean Karnazes

I think I have some of my clearest thoughts when I'm out running.

— Dean Karnazes

Somewhere along the line we seem to have confused comfort with happiness.

— Dean Karnazes

I do a lot of marathons as training runs. If I'm somewhere and there's a marathon, I'll sign up and just go…

— Dean Karnazes