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Learn to run when feeling the pain, then push harder.
Sep 17, 2025
It's a treat being a runner, out in the world by yourself with not a soul to make you bad-tempered or tell you what to do.
We may train or peak for a certain race, but running is a lifetime sport.
Something inside of me just said 'Hey, wait a minute, I want to beat him,' and I just took off.
Methinks that the moment my legs began to move, my thoughts began to flow.
Human beings are made up of flesh and blood, and a miracle fiber called courage.
You are capable of so much more than we usually dare to imagine
The miracle isn't that I finished. The miracle is that I had the courage to start.
A lot of people run a race to see who is fastest. I run to see who has the most guts, who can punish himself into exhausting pace, and then at the end, punish himself even more.
Running is the greatest metaphor for life, because you get out of it what you put into it.
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.
I had as many doubts as anyone else. Standing on the starting line, we're all cowards.
If you become restless, speed up. If you become winded, slow down. You climb the mountain in an equilibrium between restlessness and exhaustion.
Racing teaches us to challenge ourselves. It teaches us to push beyond where we thought we could go. It helps us to find out what we are made of. This is what we do. This is what it's all about.
The marathon can humble you.
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 the lion or a gazelle-when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.
A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.
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.
Don't bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself.
To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
If you want to win a race you have to go a little berserk.
Jogging is very beneficial. It's good for your legs and your feet. It's also very good for the ground. If makes it feel needed.
If a man coaches himself, then he has only himself to blame when he is beaten.
As a sportsman, I accept being beaten. Everybody tries to be a winner, but only one in a race will win. It's fun to win. But I don't find unhappiness if I lose.
It's elevating and humbling at the same time. Running along a beach at sunrise with no other footprints in the sand, you realize the vastness of creation, your own insignificant space in the plan, how tiny you really are, your own creatureliness and how much you owe to the supreme body, the God that brought all this beauty and harmony into being.
If you fail to prepare, prepare to fail.
Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
Running is a road to self-awareness and reliance-you can push yourself to extremes and learn the harsh reality of your physical and mental limitations or coast quietly down a solitary path watching the earth spin beneath your feet.
It doesn't matter whether you are a lion or a gazelle. When the sun comes up, you better be running.
I run to see who has the most guts.
Ask yourself: 'Can I give more?'. The answer is usually: 'Yes'.
Champions do not become champions when they win the event, but in the hours, weeks, months and years they spend preparing for it. The victorious performance itself is merely the demonstration of their championship character.
Mental will is a muscle that needs exercise, just like the muscles of the body.
Gold medals aren't really made of gold. They're made of sweat, determination, and a hard-to-find alloy called guts.
Tomorrow is another day, and there will be another battle!
Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
You have to wonder at times what you're doing out there. Over the years, I've given myself a thousand reasons to keep running, but it always comes back to where it started. It comes down to self-satisfaction and a sense of achievement.
I've always felt that long, slow distance produces long, slow runners.
I always loved running... it was something you could do by yourself, and under your own power. You could go in any direction, fast or slow as you wanted, fighting the wind if you felt like it, seeking out new sights just on the strength of your feet and the courage of your lungs.
I always loved running.... It was something you could do by yourself and under your own power.
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.
You cannot propel yourself forward by patting yourself on the back.
A race is a work of art that people can look at and be affected in as many ways they're capable of understanding.
Just put one foot in front of the other.
You have a choice. You can throw in the towel, or you can use it to wipe the sweat off of your face. Gatorade ad The will to win means nothing without the will to prepare.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort.
Attitude determines how well you do it.
Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.