Adjustment Quote by Lauren Fleshman

“The runner knows something the rest of us are busy forgetting: to get stronger, you have to go on until you are uncomfortable, and…

— Jason Dias

The distance runner is mysteriously reconciling the separations of body and mind, of pain and pleasure, of the conscious and the unconscious. He is…

— Anonymous

It's amazing that we can even do this - to use part of the body of someone who has passed on to help someone…

— Carson Palmer

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

— Franz Stampfl

“Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional. Say you’re running and you start to think, Man this hurts, I can’t take it anymore. The hurt…

— Haruki Murakami

“Most of us assume that running is a natural instinct and so requires no training. As a result, athletes rarely consider that improper technique…

— Anonymous

We can help the work of justice by preparing for a marathon, not a sprint. A long obedience in the same direction

— Gary Haugen

Exactly! We run or we lose ourselves in something, somebody, anything to try and ease our pain.

— Ann Brashares

I don't think you can become an outstanding runner unless you get a certain amount of enjoyment out of the suffering. You have to…

— Derek Clayton

We're constantly told that running will ruin our knees and outrage our hearts, but for nearly all of human existence, it was associated with…

— Christopher McDougall

It is in the failures of our striving that we find ourselves, and it is then, in the rising above them and trying again,…

— Rick Tumlinson

“The research is very clear: around 50% of distance runners at any given time are injured.”

— Matthew Silver