Athlete Quote by Veikko Karvonen Download Open image “Marathon running is a terrible experience: monotonous, heavy, and exhausting.” — Veikko Karvonen ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Athlete Cross country running Exhausting Heavy Inspirational running Marathon Marathon runners Marathon running Monotonous Motivational Running Terrible Training for a marathon
Running a marathon is unlike anything I have done. You can recall all those bad weights sessions or the work you had to do… — Edwin van der Sar Copy Share Image
Running a marathon is appealing to runners for many reasons. It's epic! A real test for your mind and body and a challenge that… — A. J. Odudu Copy Share Image
Running a marathon is a stressful event for your body, mind and spirit. But when you put yourself through that willingly, consciously and in… — Milind Soman Copy Share Image
Marathons are hard because of the physical pain, the pounding on the muscles, joints, tendons. — Lance Armstrong Copy Share Image
The more you frame the marathon as a stressful experience, the more negative messages you'll receive. But it's just as easy to frame it… — Jeff Galloway Copy Share Image
I enjoy the simplistic training and life in marathon. You run, eat, sleep, walk around - that's how life is. You don't get complicated.… — Eliud Kipchoge Copy Share Image
Running a marathon is just like reading a good book. After a while you're just not conscious of the physical act of reading. — Frank Shorter Copy Share Image
The music of a marathon is a powerful strain, one of those tunes of glory. It asks us to forsake pleasures, to discipline the… — George A. Sheehan Copy Share Image
The marathon is all about energy management. I had planned to run it like a track race with strategic surges to blow up my… — Frank Shorter Copy Share Image
Marathoning is like cutting yourself unexpectedly. You dip into the pain so gradually that the damage is done before you are aware of it.… — John Farrington Copy Share Image
I've been running a full marathon every year for more than 20 years, and my record is getting worse. Getting older, getting worse. It's natural. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I just came home one day and, in a midlife-crisis sort of way, I told my wife, 'I'm going to run a marathon,' not… — Paul Sparks Copy Share Image
As a professional athlete and someone who has spent almost his entire life in boxing, not a day goes by when I don't think… — Oscar De La Hoya Copy Share Image
I'd noticed him watching me for a year or so, especially when we'd play games where there was running or jumping. — Jesse Owens Copy Share Image
I have no physical genius about me. I can't dribble a ball and run at the same time, I can't do lay-ups - I'm… — Rich Mullins Copy Share Image
I think cricket is there in Usain Bolt's blood. Since I got to watch from close quarters, it was amazing to see him run… — Harbhajan Singh Copy Share Image
I think what bothers us about fighting sports isn't the damage to the athlete but the fact that you win by doing more harm… — Jonathan Gottschall Copy Share Image
Athletes at all ages are bigger and stronger than ever before. And they are being encouraged - sometimes even incentivized, as we recently learned… — Naveen Jain Copy Share Image
I think life is full of challenges and problems. I don't believe that anyone is perfect. We all make mistakes. It's not a bed… — Nigel Mansell Copy Share Image
I'd never been much of an athlete, due to a physical condition I'd had since birth (unathleticism). Perhaps if there were a sport centered… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
I like to push characters to extremes so they have to make really tough decisions and there is no life more extreme than that… — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
There are only two options regarding commitment; you’re either in or you’re out. — Pat Riley Copy Share Image
