Before Quote by Dan Buettner

My dad was a big runner. Growing up, I watched him do half marathons, and he was always running six or seven miles.

— Natalie Morales

Plenty of people who are 38 have run really well in the marathon.

— Paula Radcliffe

I ran my first marathon in Florida in 1985. I had never run more than nine miles.

— Kim Alexis

I always thought if you run a Marathon in less than 4 hours, there is a tick of athletic accomplishment in that. Anything over…

— Michael Waltrip

Most runners run not because they want to live longer, but because they want to live life to the fullest.

— Haruki Murakami

I used to take part in a lot of marathons.

— Urvashi Rautela

When I came to New York in 1978, I was a full-time school teacher and track runner, and determined to retire from competitive running.…

— Grete Waitz

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…

— Haruki Murakami

If a marathon was easy, it would be called your mother.

— Anonymous

There is a special mystique about the marathon, for example, because of its length-but that's just the bit you do at the end of…

— Chrissie Wellington

My father, though, could run very much faster. It was impossible to compete with him on the grass. But it was astonishing how slow…

— Georg Brandes

I used to run a full marathon in three hours and 25 or 26 minutes. Not any more.

— Haruki Murakami