Quote by Christopher McDougall

“When you run a marathon, you mean it. We're built for running. We dream of flying. For now, though, we're built to run.”

— Benjamin Cheever

“If you only ran when you felt like running, you wouldn’t make it very far.”

— Toni Sorenson

“It is not how fast or how far, but how often you run that makes you a real runner.”

— Toni Sorenson

“Building something that matters is a marathon, not a sprint.”

— Dragos Bratasanu, Ph.D

“How long you run matters. How far you run counts. But the fact that you run is what makes you a runner.”

— Toni Sorenson

“Because I know what I feel in here. And I'm not the type of person to run from anything, no matter how hard it…

— Jennifer Armentrout

“Then I decided to sign up for a marathon. I ran my first one the next year in three hours and forty-five minutes.”

— Duff McKagan

“I love running. I’m not into marathons, but I am into avoiding problems at an accelerated rate.”

— Jarod Kintz

“I'm not much of a distance runner, more of a sprinter.”

— Carrie Jones

“You wouldn’t train for a marathon & then give up a mile before the finish line. Same goes with your life & dreams.”

— Dawn Gluskin

“We haven't stopped running, but we are getting slower. We have little people running with us now. We have passed others. Our own people…

— N.D. Wilson

“The only way to find out if I was physically or mentally capable of finishing a marathon was to try and run a marathon.”

— Alexandra Heminsley