If you feel positive, you have a sense of hope. If you have hope, you can have courage. — Kathrine Switzer Courage Copy Share Image
Five years after Boston 1967, I went to the Munich Olympics. I realized that major sponsorship could help me create the opportunity.… — Kathrine Switzer Avon Copy Share Image
A lack of forgiveness is a waste of time and it's very enriching to forgive and move on but those are things… — Kathrine Switzer Enriching Copy Share Image
I could feel my anger dissipating as the miles went by--you can't run and stay mad! — Kathrine Switzer Anger Copy Share Image
There is an expression among even the most advanced runners that getting your shoes on is the hardest part of any workout — Kathrine Switzer Expression Copy Share Image
Most people don't know this but over the course of time, the official of the race in 1967 in Boston, who attacked… — Kathrine Switzer Boston Copy Share Image
When I was first running marathons, we were sailing on a flat earth. We were afraid we'd get big legs, grow mustaches,… — Kathrine Switzer Able Copy Share Image
Women were afraid and they would never even imagine running a marathon in 1967. — Kathrine Switzer Imagine Copy Share Image
I organized this global series of races. The data from those races, along with the tremendous amount of lobbying and meetings with… — Kathrine Switzer Amount Copy Share Image
I don't have any kids of my own, quite by choice. There are two reasons for that. One, I had a sense… — Kathrine Switzer Accomplished Copy Share Image
If you are losing faith in human nature, go out and watch a marathon. — Kathrine Switzer Endurance Copy Share Image
I said that there's going to come a day in our lives when women's running is as popular and as men's. Looking… — Kathrine Switzer Dreams Copy Share Image
When I forgave Jock Semple on Heartbreak Hill, I also got really cross with women. I couldn't understand why they didn't get… — Kathrine Switzer Be you Copy Share Image
Jock Semple and I were at daggers drawn for five years, even though I kind of forgave him from the get-go. I… — Kathrine Switzer Boston Copy Share Image
Women is out because she's getting in her daily dose of empowerment, freedom and fearlessness. She has put on her freedom wings… — Kathrine Switzer Dose Copy Share Image
When I got the women's marathon into the Olympics and we had races all over the world I thought, 'That's great, now… — Kathrine Switzer Amount Copy Share Image
I do forgive people when they get it right, even people who in the past I thought were unforgivable. — Kathrine Switzer Forgiveness Copy Share Image
When I go to the Boston Marathon now, I have wet shoulders—women fall into my arms crying. They're weeping for joy because… — Kathrine Switzer Arms Copy Share Image
I married the right guy later in life. Roger Robinson is just so wonderful but I was 40 and by that time… — Kathrine Switzer Children Copy Share Image
1967 race in Boston changed not just my life, but millions of women's lives. There are also things that, when you get… — Kathrine Switzer Boston Copy Share Image
Jock Semple and I began appearing at speeches together and he came up to me on the start line in 1973 and… — Kathrine Switzer Appearing Copy Share Image
I always say that talent and capability is everywhere, all it needs is opportunity. — Kathrine Switzer Capability Copy Share Image
Jock Semple said "Oh the women ran well today the Boston Marathon and they deserve to be in the race." I had… — Kathrine Switzer Boston Copy Share Image
All you need is the courage to believe in yourself and put one foot in front of the other. — Kathrine Switzer Believe Copy Share Image
