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My doctor told me that jogging could add years to my life. I think he was right. I feel ten years older already.
Sep 16, 2025
No doubt a brain and some shoes are essential for marathon success, although if it comes down to a choice, pick the shoes. More people finish marathons with no brains than with no shoes.
I believe that the Good Lord gave us a finite number of heartbeats and I'm damned if I'm going to use up mine running up and down a street.
Success isn't how far you got, but the distance you traveled from where you started.
There are as many reasons for running as there are days in a year.... But mostly I run because I am an animal and a child.
We run, not because we think it is doing us good, but because we enjoy it and cannot help ourselves
The real competition is against the little voice inside you that wants to quit
I am going to go out a winner if I have to find a high school race to win my last race.
Run hard, be strong, think big!
You have to forget your last marathon before you try another. Your mind can't know what's coming.
The only tactics I admire are do-or-die
In golf, as in life, you get out of it what you put into it.
It is true that speed kills. In distance running, it kills anyone who does not have it.
Good things come slow, especially in distance running.
Stadiums are for spectators. We runners have Nature, and that is much better.
It hurts up to a point and then it doesn't get any worse.
Go in any direction..seeking out new sights just on the strength of your feet and the courage of your lungs.
To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift.
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.
Cross Country: No half times, no time outs, no substitutions. It must be the only true sport.
It's very hard in the beginning to understand that the whole idea is not to beat the other runners. Eventually you learn that the competition is against the little voice inside you that wants you to quit.
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 only reason I would take up jogging is so that I could hear heavy breathing again.
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.
Listen to your body. Do not be a blind and deaf tenant.
American naturalist John Burroughs put it, “A man can fail many times, but he isn’t a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.
A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.
Don't bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself.
To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
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.
The five S's of sports training are: stamina, speed, strength, skill, and spirit; but the greatest of these is spirit.
Your body will argue that there is no justifiable reason to continue. Your only recourse is to call on your spirit, which fortunately functions independently of logic.
Tomorrow is another day, and there will be another battle!
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.
Make the mind run the body. Never let the body tell the mind what to do. The body will always give up.
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.
Run like hell and get the agony over with.
A race is a work of art that people can look at and be affected in as many ways they're capable of understanding.
There's no such thing as bad weather - only the wrong clothes.
There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.
There's no such thing as bad weather, only inappropriate clothing
There's no such thing as bad weather, just soft people.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second.
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.