Runners Quotes
315 quotes by 218 authors
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I was born to be a runner. I simply love to run. It's almost like the faster I go, the easier it becomes.
— Mary Decker
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There is no such thing as an average runner. We are all above average.
— Hal Higdon
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Being a lifelong runner, knowing what running gives me, a variety of factors - that is what motivates me.
— Bill Rodgers
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The most important thing I learned [from running] is that there is only one runner in this race, and that is me.
— George A. Sheehan
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Stadiums are for spectators. We runners have Nature, and that is much better.
— Juha Vaatainen
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The true but rare runner's high is a zone that we enter when everything seems to click perfectly, when time stands still, and when we…
— Amby Burfoot
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Which one of you is going to be runner-up?
— Walter Hagen
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In a brief space the generations of beings are changed, and, like runners, pass on the torches of life.
— Lucretius
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In war there is no second prize for the runner-up.
— Omar N. Bradley
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In war there is no prize for runner-up.
— Seneca the Younger
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I still bother with runners I call hamburgers. They're never going to run any record times. But they can fulfill their own potential.
— Bill Bowerman
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I am absolutely delighted to have come second. Who cares about winning when you can be second? I love being runner-up.
— Tom Weiskopf
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A coach can be like oasis in the desert of a runner's lost enthusiasm.
— Ken Doherty
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A runner must run with dreams in his heart.
— Emil Zatopek
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People sometimes sneer at those who run every day, claiming they'll go to any length to live longer. But don't think that's the reason most…
— Haruki Murakami
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They say the breaks even up in the long run, and the trick is to be a long-distance runner.
— Chuck Knox
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Some runners judge performance by whether they won or lost. Others define success or failure by how fast they ran. Only you can judge your…
— Hal Higdon
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In running it is man against himself, the cruelest of opponents. The other runners are not the real enemies. His adversary lies within him, in…
— Glenn Cunningham
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The one thing that I really appreciate about being a runner is the incredible friendships and camaraderie that we, as runners, share. Although it will…
— Jennifer Rhines
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Independence is the outstanding characteristic of the runner.
— Noel Carroll
Who Wrote These Runners Quotes
218 authors contributed a total of 315 Runners Quotes, led by these top contributors: