"Running is a very natural activity. If you……" — Bill Rodgers
"Running is a very natural activity. If you get too caught up, you find yourself constantly seeking to make running something that it isn't. You should let it be what it is - a very simple activity. Running has become too complicated for many people and they wind up turning sour on the sport, or losing the focus of their direction."
—
Bill Rodgers
★
★
★
★
★
0.0 avg (0 ratings)
35 Quotes by Bill Rodgers
Bill Rodgers has 35 quotes on this site.
A few more worth reading:
-
I often lose motivation, but it's something I accept as normal.
-
Being a lifelong runner, knowing what running gives me, a variety of factors - that is what motivates me.
-
I ran my fastest marathon in the rain.
-
If you want to win a race you have to go a little berserk.
-
The marathon can humble you.
-
Runners...you're competitive, but you want to have fun, too. You want to enjoy life. And runners really get to do…
-
Runners are the ultimate celebration people. Running is just so intense, you're really experiencing life to the fullest.
-
Aiming for the marathon is a task of sorts which can include terrific highs and lows.
-
My biggest weakness as a endurance athlete has been in not drinking enough water after training, thereby racing sometimes while…
-
My guess is many top athletes, distance runners included, use performance-enhancing drugs, enough so that the problem must be tackled.
-
Good health, peace of mind, being outdoors, camaraderie - those are all wonderful things that come to you when running.…
-
Don't feel guilty about driving somewhere nice to run. If people can drive to a park to eat hot dogs,…
See all 35 quotes by Bill Rodgers »
More Activity Quotes
This quote is filed under Activity Quotes,
one of 1,646 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
-
I don't think of poetry as a 'rational' activity but as an aural one. My poems usually begin with words…
— Margaret Atwood
-
If there was the opportunity to climb a mountain, or to go ballooning, or some adventurous activity, I would always…
— Roger Bannister
-
Snowboarding is an activity that is very popular with people who do not feel that regular skiing is lethal enough.
— Dave Barry
-
To make an activity joyful, keep adding things until the activity as a whole becomes more appealing than repulsing.
— Martha Beck
-
If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.
— Alan Bennett
-
The activity of a singer that sings opera is similar to that of an athlete.
— Andrea Bocelli
-
The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.
— William J. H. Boetcker
-
Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.
— Edward de Bono
-
Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual.
— Jorge Luis Borges
-
I'm just trying to spread the word and upturn the myth that actually you should be resting after cancer treatment.…
— Jo Brand
-
Dissent is the native activity of the scientist, and it has got him into a good deal of trouble in…
— Jacob Bronowski
-
Where I grew up, in Des Moines, Iowa, there is hardly any downtown economic activity now. Everybody shops in malls…
— Bill Bryson
See all 1,646 Activity Quotes »