Running Quotes

Everyone who has run knows that its most important value is in removing tension and allowing a release from whatever other cares the day may bring.

Jimmy Carter

You don't run against a bloody stop watch, do you hear? A runner runs against himself, against the best that's in him. Not against a dead thing of wheels and pulleys. That's the way to be great, running against yourself. Against all the rotten mess in the world. Against God, if you're good enough.

Bill Persons

Run if you can, walk if you have to, crawl if you must, just never give up.

Dean Karnazes

There is no bad weather, just soft runners.

Bill Bowerman

Somewhere in the world someone is training when you are not. When you race him, he will win.

Tom Fleming

The real purpose of running isn't to win a race, it's to test the limits of the human heart.

Bill Bowerman

Running is a big question mark that's there each and every day. It asks you, 'Are you going to be a wimp or are you going to be strong today?

Peter Maher

If you want to become the best runner you can be, start now. Don't spend the rest of your life wondering if you can do it.

Priscilla Welch

Run like you stole something.

Daniel Farrow

There are as many reasons for running as there are days in the year, years in my life. But mostly I run because I am an animal and a child, an artist and a saint. So, too, are you. Find your own play, your own self-renewing compulsion, and you will become the person you are meant to be.

George Sheehan

The more I run, the more I want to run, and the more I live a life conditioned and influenced and fashioned by my running. And the more I run, the more certain I am that I am heading for my real goal: to become the person I am.

George Sheehan

The difference between a jogger and a runner is an entry blank.

George Sheehan

Games require skill. Running requires endurance, character, pride, physical strength, and mental toughness. Running is a test, not a game. A test of faith, belief, will, and trust in ones self. So hardcore that it needs a category all to itself to define the pain. When game players criticize, it's because they aren't willing to understand, not because they're stronger. Running is more than a sport; it's a lifestyle. If you have to ask us why we run, you'll never understand, so just accept.

Jessica Propst

Of all the thirty-six alternatives, running away is best.

Chinese Proverb

Winners forget they're in a race, they just love to run.

Simon Wilder

He had never been a social man. He had shunned causes with contempt and disgust. They were for pig-simple suckers and people with too much time and money on their hands

Stephen King

The trouble with jogging is that the ice falls out of your glass.

Martin Mull

The miracle isn't that I finished. The miracle is that I had the courage to start.

John Bingham

What distinguishes those of us at the starting line from those of us on the couch is that we learn through running to take what the days gives us, what our body will allow us, and what our will can tolerate.

John Bingham

A race is a work of art that people can look at and be affected in as many ways as they're capable of understanding.

Steve Prefontaine