Barriers Quote by Eamonn Coghlan

“ When a “runner” runs, they run. But in time the “runner” finds themselves in a no-brain situation. They are faced with the choice…

— Chimnese Davids

Runners are competitive folks. I think some might feel slighted they haven't got more recognition. I think they have a point. In running, you…

— Dean Karnazes

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

— Haruki Murakami

Many run primarily for the exercise, but others run to condition themselves for well-publicized races of various distances.

— Joseph B. Wirthlin

Running is the classical road to self-consciousn ess, self-awareness and self-reliance. Independence is the outstanding characteristic of a runner. He learns the harsh reality…

— Noel Coward

The Possibilities in racing tactics are almost unlimited, as in a game of chess, for every move there is a counter, for every attack…

— Franz Stampfl

According to the brain-centered model of exercise performance, a runner achieves his race goal when his brain calculates that achieving the race goal is…

— Matt Fitzgerald

Running is the classical road to self-consciousness, self-awareness, and self-reliance.

— Noel Carroll

“I’m convinced that a lot of people run ultramarathons for the same reason they take mood-altering drugs. I don’t mean to minimize the gifts…

— Scott Jurek

The potential elite runner must realize that hard means hard, easy means easy and they must patiently seek out what combinations work for them.…

— Frank Shorter

In running it is man against himself, the cruelest of opponents. The other runners are not the real enemies. His adversary lies within him,…

— Glenn Cunningham

The runner's greatest asset, apart from essential fitness of body, is a cool and calculating brain allied to confidence and courage.

— Franz Stampfl