Ability Quote by Jim Fixx

Running and science draw on similar traits - stamina, ambition, patience, and the ability to overcome limits.

— Wolfgang Ketterle

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

— Franz Stampfl

Running is many things to me: survival, calmness, euphoria, solitude. It is proof of my corporeal existence, my ability to control my movement through…

— Audrey Niffenegger

“Purpose is the straightest path to power and the ultimate source of personal strength—strength”

— Gary Keller

“Willpower is not a character trait, it’s a confidence game. According to Dr. Russell Kennedy, one of the valued experts who have informed my…

— Joe Cross

“Interpreting running as an opportunity to discover and become his best self, and to give his best to others, through the relentless pursuit of…

— Matt Fitzgerald

Strength, the power within, is what you can call upon to pull yourself up by your bootstraps to give you the sense that you…

— Senoraroy

“Life can be difficult at times and many questions have no answers. The determination it takes to go on and the resiliency required of…

— Jacqueline Simon Gunn

Exerting yourself to the fullest within your individual limits: that's the essence of running, and a metaphor for life

— Haruki Murakami

As runners, we all go through many transitions-- transitions that closely mimic the larger changes we experience in a lifetime. First, we try to…

— Amby Burfoot

I run because I enjoy it — not always, but most of the time. I run because I have always run — not trained,…

— Amby Burfoot

Being a lifelong runner, knowing what running gives me, a variety of factors - that is what motivates me.

— Bill Rodgers