Miles Quotes
1630 Miles quotes by 1176 unique authors
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Not only is [a half marathon] a good test for the marathon, it is also good for those who feel they were just getting going…
— Grete Waitz
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Anyone can run 20 miles. It's the next six that count.
— Unknown Author
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I thought about how many preconcieved prejudices would crumble when i trotted right along for 26 miles.
— Bobbi Gibb
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The difference between the mile and the marathon is the difference between burning your fingers with a match and being slowly roasted over hot coals.
— Hal Higdon
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Blink and you miss a sprint. The 10,000 meters is lap after lap of waiting. Theatrically, the mile is just the right length: beginning, middle,…
— Sebastian Coe
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I don't think about the miles that are coming down the road, I don't think about the mile I'm on right now, I don't think…
— Ryan Hall
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I thought, man, if you could run 100 miles, you'd be in this Zen state. You'd be the f**king Buddha. Bringing peace and a smile…
— Jenn Shelton
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Once we decide we have to do something, we can go miles ahead.
— Narendra Modi
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The world cannot be discovered by a journey of miles...only by a spiritual journey...by which we arrive at the ground at our feet, and learn…
— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
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One of my favorite bloggers who can articulate his ideas clearly is Avinash Kaushik. The only problem? His ideas are so awesome his posts are…
— Chip Heath
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It was daylight and I drove everyone home - I was driving a Mini with John and Cynthia and Pattie in it. I seem to…
— George Harrison
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You know it's only 50 miles but I've relished every moment of the longer route to get here. Thanks for letting me reflect on those…
— Don Shula
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Drilling in the Refuge is completely unnecessary when we could improve the average fuel economy of cars, minivans and SUV's by just 3 miles a…
— Ed Markey
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I frequently tramped eight or ten miles through the deepest snow to keep an appointment with a beechtree, or a yellow birch, or an old…
— Henry David Thoreau
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How do you live a long life? "Take a two-mile walk every morning before breakfast."
— Harry S. Truman
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This week I've travelled more than 15,000 miles from America to China to Burma to Australia. I have no idea what time it is right…
— Barack Obama
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A bright light filled the plane. The first shock-wave hit us. We were eleven and a half miles slant range from the atomic explosion but…
— Paul Tibbets
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The tree which needs two arms to span its girth sprang from the tiniest shoot. Yon tower, nine stories high, rose from a little mound…
— Laozi
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This is the practice school of writing. Like running, the more you do it, the better you get at it. Some days you don't want…
— Natalie Goldberg
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It was unknowable then, but so much of the progress that would define the 20th century, on both sides of the Atlantic, came down to…
— Barack Obama
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Footballers can be like artists when the mind and body are working as one. It is what Miles Davis does when he plays free jazz…
— Lilian Thuram
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There were something like 50 good, arduous climbs around Nice, solid inclines of ten miles or more. The trick was not to climb every once…
— Lance Armstrong
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Runners like to train 100 miles per week because it's a round number. But I think 88 is a lot rounder.
— Don Kardong
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We need a change in consciousness to go with this technology platform. We need a new narrative: we need to shift from geopolitics to biosphere…
— Jeremy Rifkin
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It means that no blue ribbon is forever. Someday - if the world doesn't explode itself in the meantime - someone will run a two-minute…
— Stephen King
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