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Some of the best and most inspirational
running quotes ever from great runners
and coaches over the years on the
philosophy, racing, and training of the
distance runner.
running quotes ever from great runners
and coaches over the years on the
philosophy, racing, and training of the
distance runner.
| Running Quotes |
"If you can't run then walk. And if you can't walk, then crawl. Do whatever you have to do. Just keep moving forward and never, ever give
up".
Father of Dean Karnazes, The Ultramarathon Man, about finishing Western States (at mile 99 of 100)
"A lot of people run a race to see who's the fastest. I run to see who has the most guts."
Steve Prefontaine
"Somewhere in the world someone is training when you are not. When you race him, he will win."
Tom Fleming's Boston Marathon training sign on his wall
"Workouts are like brushing my teeth; I don't think about them, I just do them. The decision has already been made."
Patti Sue Plumer, U.S. Olympian
"I tell our runners to divide the race into thirds. Run the first part with your head, the middle part with your personality, and the last part with
your heart."
Mike Fanelli, club coach
"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
"We are different, in essence, from other men. If you want to win something, run 100 meters. If you want to experience something, run a
marathon."
Emil Zatopek
"I haven't seen too many American distance men on the international scene willing to take risks. I saw some U.S. women in Barcelona willing to
risk, more than men. The Kenyans risk. Steve Prefontaine risked. I risked - I went through the first half of the Tokyo race just a second off my
best 5000 time."
Billy Mills, 1964 Olympic Gold Medalist in the 10,000 in Tokyo (and very inspirational speaker. If you ever have a chance to hear him, do!)
"The will to win means nothing without the will to prepare."
Juma Ikangaa, Tanzania
"Good things come slow - especially in distance running."
Bill Dellinger, Oregon coach
"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, Irish-Canadian Olympian and sub-2:12 marathoner
"The thing that makes [Bob] Kennedy so good is that he doesn't have a fear of losing. He was willing to go to Europe and get hammered."
Frank Shorter
"Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up. It knows it must outrun the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning in Africa, a lion wakes up. It
knows it must run faster than the slowest gazelle, or it will starve. It doesn't matter whether you're a lion or gazelle - when the sun comes up,
you'd better be running."
Unknown
"Now if you are going to win any battle you have to do one thing. You have to make the mind run the body. Never let the body tell the mind
what to do. The body will always give up. It is always tired morning, noon, and night. But the body is never tired if the mind is not tired. When
you were younger the mind could make you dance all night, and the body was never tired...You've always got to make the mind take over and
keep going."
George S. Patton, U.S. Army General and 1912 Olympian
"The body does not want you to do this. As you run, it tells you to stop but the mind must be strong. You always go too far for your body.
You must handle the pain with strategy...It is not age; it is not diet. It is the will to succeed."
Jacqueline Gareau, 1980 Boston Marathon champ
"Mind is everything: muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind."
Paavo Nurmi
"Once you're beat mentally, you might was well not even go to the starting line."
Todd Williams
"Bob does well in big races because he doesn't stand at the starting line and establish a pecking order. He doesn't look around and say: 'Oh,
so-and-so is here...' His great gift is his ability to focus completely on himself and his own race, and then let the place or the time take care of
itself."
Coach Vince Lananna on Bob Kempainen
"[Scientific testing] can't determine how the mind will tolerate pain in a race. Sometimes, I say, "Today I can die.'"
Gelindo Bordin
"Sport is not about being wrapped up in cotton wool. Sport as about adapting to the unexpected and being able to modify plans at the last
minute. Sport, like all life, is about taking risks."
Sir Roger Bannister
"There are people who have no bodies, only heads. And many athletes have no heads, only bodies. A champion is a man who has trained his
body and his mind, who has learned to conquer pain for his own purposes. A great athlete is at peace with himself and at peace with the world; he
has fulfilled himself. He envies nobody. Wars are caused by people who have not fulfilled themselves."
Coach Sam Dee The Olympian
"When the meal was over we all had a quiet rest in our rooms and I meditated on the race. This is the time when an athlete feels all alone in the
big world. Opponents assume tremendous stature. Any runner who denies having fears, nerves or some kind of disposition is a bad athlete, or a
liar".
Gordon Pirie
"We run, not because we think it is doing us good, but because we enjoy it and cannot help ourselves...The more restricted our society and work
become, the more necessary it will be to find some outlet for this craving for freedom. No one can say, 'You must not run faster than this, or
jump higher than that.' The human spirit is indomitable."
Sir Roger Bannister
"God determines how fast you're going to run; I can help only with the mechanics."
Bill Bowerman
"I still bother with runners I call hamburgers. They're never going to run any record times. But they can fulfill their own potential."
Bill Bowerman
"Running is a lot like life. Only 10 percent of it is exciting. 90 percent of it is slog and drudge."
Dave Bedford, English distance runner who occasionally put in 200 miles a week in training
"A lot of people don't realize that about 98 percent of the running I put in is anything but glamorous: 2 percent joyful participation, 98 percent
dedication! It's a tough formula. Getting out in the forest in the biting cold and the flattening heat, and putting in kilometer after kilometer."
Rob de Castella
"You have to go through cycles of extreme poverty and suffering for a while; they are used to that...They get up early, run hard, rest drink tea,
get out and run hard again. Wehn Simon Dirorie gets up at 4 a.m. - I'm dedicated, but I'm not that dedicated."
Keith Brantly, on why the Kenyan runners are so good, 1993
"I think people can handle 150 to 200 miles a week. But something has to give somewhere. If he's a student, how's he going to study? He may
be at the age of chasing and courtship, and that's an important form of sport and recreation, too."
Bill Bowerman
"That is the sort of race which one really enjoys - to feel at one's peak on the day when it is necessary, and to be able to produce the pace at the
very finish. It gives a thrill which compensates for months of training and toiling. But it is the sort of race that one wants only about once a
season."
Jack Lovelock
"Those who say that I will lose and am finished will have to run over my body to beat me."
Said Aouita
"My whole feeling in terms of racing is that you have to be very bold. You sometimes have to be aggressive and gamble."
Bill Rodgers
"Marathoning is like cutting yourself unexpectedly. You dip into the pain so gradually that the damage is done before you are aware of it.
Unfortunately, when the awareness comes, it is excruciating."
John Farrington, Australian marathoner
up".
Father of Dean Karnazes, The Ultramarathon Man, about finishing Western States (at mile 99 of 100)
"A lot of people run a race to see who's the fastest. I run to see who has the most guts."
Steve Prefontaine
"Somewhere in the world someone is training when you are not. When you race him, he will win."
Tom Fleming's Boston Marathon training sign on his wall
"Workouts are like brushing my teeth; I don't think about them, I just do them. The decision has already been made."
Patti Sue Plumer, U.S. Olympian
"I tell our runners to divide the race into thirds. Run the first part with your head, the middle part with your personality, and the last part with
your heart."
Mike Fanelli, club coach
"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
"We are different, in essence, from other men. If you want to win something, run 100 meters. If you want to experience something, run a
marathon."
Emil Zatopek
"I haven't seen too many American distance men on the international scene willing to take risks. I saw some U.S. women in Barcelona willing to
risk, more than men. The Kenyans risk. Steve Prefontaine risked. I risked - I went through the first half of the Tokyo race just a second off my
best 5000 time."
Billy Mills, 1964 Olympic Gold Medalist in the 10,000 in Tokyo (and very inspirational speaker. If you ever have a chance to hear him, do!)
"The will to win means nothing without the will to prepare."
Juma Ikangaa, Tanzania
"Good things come slow - especially in distance running."
Bill Dellinger, Oregon coach
"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, Irish-Canadian Olympian and sub-2:12 marathoner
"The thing that makes [Bob] Kennedy so good is that he doesn't have a fear of losing. He was willing to go to Europe and get hammered."
Frank Shorter
"Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up. It knows it must outrun the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning in Africa, a lion wakes up. It
knows it must run faster than the slowest gazelle, or it will starve. It doesn't matter whether you're a lion or gazelle - when the sun comes up,
you'd better be running."
Unknown
"Now if you are going to win any battle you have to do one thing. You have to make the mind run the body. Never let the body tell the mind
what to do. The body will always give up. It is always tired morning, noon, and night. But the body is never tired if the mind is not tired. When
you were younger the mind could make you dance all night, and the body was never tired...You've always got to make the mind take over and
keep going."
George S. Patton, U.S. Army General and 1912 Olympian
"The body does not want you to do this. As you run, it tells you to stop but the mind must be strong. You always go too far for your body.
You must handle the pain with strategy...It is not age; it is not diet. It is the will to succeed."
Jacqueline Gareau, 1980 Boston Marathon champ
"Mind is everything: muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind."
Paavo Nurmi
"Once you're beat mentally, you might was well not even go to the starting line."
Todd Williams
"Bob does well in big races because he doesn't stand at the starting line and establish a pecking order. He doesn't look around and say: 'Oh,
so-and-so is here...' His great gift is his ability to focus completely on himself and his own race, and then let the place or the time take care of
itself."
Coach Vince Lananna on Bob Kempainen
"[Scientific testing] can't determine how the mind will tolerate pain in a race. Sometimes, I say, "Today I can die.'"
Gelindo Bordin
"Sport is not about being wrapped up in cotton wool. Sport as about adapting to the unexpected and being able to modify plans at the last
minute. Sport, like all life, is about taking risks."
Sir Roger Bannister
"There are people who have no bodies, only heads. And many athletes have no heads, only bodies. A champion is a man who has trained his
body and his mind, who has learned to conquer pain for his own purposes. A great athlete is at peace with himself and at peace with the world; he
has fulfilled himself. He envies nobody. Wars are caused by people who have not fulfilled themselves."
Coach Sam Dee The Olympian
"When the meal was over we all had a quiet rest in our rooms and I meditated on the race. This is the time when an athlete feels all alone in the
big world. Opponents assume tremendous stature. Any runner who denies having fears, nerves or some kind of disposition is a bad athlete, or a
liar".
Gordon Pirie
"We run, not because we think it is doing us good, but because we enjoy it and cannot help ourselves...The more restricted our society and work
become, the more necessary it will be to find some outlet for this craving for freedom. No one can say, 'You must not run faster than this, or
jump higher than that.' The human spirit is indomitable."
Sir Roger Bannister
"God determines how fast you're going to run; I can help only with the mechanics."
Bill Bowerman
"I still bother with runners I call hamburgers. They're never going to run any record times. But they can fulfill their own potential."
Bill Bowerman
"Running is a lot like life. Only 10 percent of it is exciting. 90 percent of it is slog and drudge."
Dave Bedford, English distance runner who occasionally put in 200 miles a week in training
"A lot of people don't realize that about 98 percent of the running I put in is anything but glamorous: 2 percent joyful participation, 98 percent
dedication! It's a tough formula. Getting out in the forest in the biting cold and the flattening heat, and putting in kilometer after kilometer."
Rob de Castella
"You have to go through cycles of extreme poverty and suffering for a while; they are used to that...They get up early, run hard, rest drink tea,
get out and run hard again. Wehn Simon Dirorie gets up at 4 a.m. - I'm dedicated, but I'm not that dedicated."
Keith Brantly, on why the Kenyan runners are so good, 1993
"I think people can handle 150 to 200 miles a week. But something has to give somewhere. If he's a student, how's he going to study? He may
be at the age of chasing and courtship, and that's an important form of sport and recreation, too."
Bill Bowerman
"That is the sort of race which one really enjoys - to feel at one's peak on the day when it is necessary, and to be able to produce the pace at the
very finish. It gives a thrill which compensates for months of training and toiling. But it is the sort of race that one wants only about once a
season."
Jack Lovelock
"Those who say that I will lose and am finished will have to run over my body to beat me."
Said Aouita
"My whole feeling in terms of racing is that you have to be very bold. You sometimes have to be aggressive and gamble."
Bill Rodgers
"Marathoning is like cutting yourself unexpectedly. You dip into the pain so gradually that the damage is done before you are aware of it.
Unfortunately, when the awareness comes, it is excruciating."
John Farrington, Australian marathoner
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