Runner Quotes
215 quotes by 178 authors
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The true runner is a very fortunate person. He has found something in him that is just perfect.
— George A. Sheehan
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For every runner who tours the world running marathons, there are thousands who run to hear the leaves and listen to the rain, and look…
— George A. Sheehan
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Life's not linear at all. It happens in lighting flashes. So fast you don't see those lay-you-out cold moments coming at you until you're Wile…
— Karen Marie Moning
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At any rate, that’s how I started running. Thirty three—that’s how old I was then. Still young enough, though no longer a young man. The…
— Haruki Murakami
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I didn't start running because somebody asked me to become a runner. Just like I didn't become a novelist because someone asked me to. One…
— Haruki Murakami
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Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional. Say you’re running and you think, ‘Man, this hurts, I can’t take it anymore. The ‘hurt’ part is an…
— Haruki Murakami
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Thomas had a depressing - and scary - thought. 'Am I . . . replacing someone? Did somebody get killed?' Minho shook his head. 'No,…
— James Dashner
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Wherever you are, be all there." I have lived the runner, panting ahead in worry, pounding back in regrets, terrified to live in the present,…
— Ann Voskamp
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I am a runner. That's what I do. That's who I am. Running is all I know, or want, or care about.
— Wendelin Van Draanen
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What happened to the winner" Adina asked. "She tripped." "And the first runner-up?" Miss Michigan cracked her knuckles. "She tripped, too.
— Libba Bray
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The difference between a jogger and a runner is an entry blank.
— George A. Sheehan
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Anybody can be a runner. We were meant to move. We were meant to run. It's the easiest sport.
— Bill Rodgers
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If you want to become the best runner you can be, start now. Don't spend the rest of your life wondering if you can do…
— Priscilla Welch
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To know you are one with what you are doing, to know that you are a complete athlete, begins with believing you are a runner.
— George A. Sheehan
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It's a treat being a runner, out in the world by yourself with not a soul to make you bad-tempered or tell you what to…
— Alan Sillitoe
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I couldn't disappoint people. I did not want to fail and exhaust myself, because I was the kind of runner who trained so little that…
— Roger Bannister
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I am a marathon runner. I ran the New York City marathon and almost died. I tried to run, like, a two-minute mile early on…
— Sean Combs
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As more speed afoot was constantly demanded for big league ball, I noticed the many infield bounders which the runner beat to first only by…
— Bobby Wallace
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Prior to the 1976 Olympics, I was a 5,000m runner.
— Don Kardong
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We all have hierarchies at work - even on set, the runner would never walk up to the director and ask for a cup of…
— Laura Carmichael
Who Wrote These Runner Quotes
178 authors contributed a total of 215 Runner Quotes, led by these top contributors: