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Marathon Runner Inspirational Quotes (483)

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I feel a social responsibility. We need to open people's eyes. There is a lack of education in Ethiopia.
Haile Gebrselassie
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Some people feel 'transformed' from the first day they begin running others feel that it's just plain hard work. Most of us realize it is both. I know how great running can feel, but I also know it can feel not so great, even downright awful! It can be fun, but it takes work to have that fun.
Grete Waitz
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The marathon is like a bullfight.
Alberto Salazar
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Success does not come to the most righteous and rigorously disciplined but to those who continue running.
Amby Burfoot
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There is an expression among even the most advanced runners that getting your shoes on is the hardest part of any workout
Kathrine Switzer
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Hill sprints are good for everyone!
Kara Goucher
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I race to win. That's the point.
Dathan Ritzenhein
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Years ago, women sat in the kitchen drinking coffee and discussing life. Now they discuss the same topics while they run.
Joan Benoit
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Best wishes for a great marathon. Be sure to savor it. The first marathon is something special. Run long and healthy.
Amby Burfoot
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Do the small things. If you are running a 10-12 minute mile take a mile off your plan for the day and use the 6 minutes before and after to stretch. A lot of the times we all want to go go go but it's important to stretch the calves and the hamstrings and nutritionally you know?
Meb Keflezighi
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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.
Robert de Castella
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A lot of ultramarathoners are soloists. They're single and live lives off the grid.
Dean Karnazes
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Jock Semple said Oh the women ran well today the Boston Marathon and they deserve to be in the race. I had to laugh. I said Well it took us five years but anyway, we're here. It pretty much changed everything.
Kathrine Switzer
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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
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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
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The Kenyans haven't done much in the last two games, in fact they haven't competed since 1972
Brendan Foster
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I'm feeling alright, I am pretty happy with it. I was trying to catch her, around 37k my calf started to cramp on me a little so I had to make sure to run smart so I didn't completely cramp up. When the Aussie caught me I figured my medal contention might be up but I ended up catching 4th.
Lanni Marchant
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You can't do in a race what you haven't prepared for.
Kara Goucher
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Running allows me to set my mind free. Nothing seems impossible, nothing unattainable.
Kara Goucher
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I am living in Norway, where I am under the care of the best cancer doctor in Norway and I can be closer to my family.
Grete Waitz
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What spurs a person to get more serious is highly individual, but I have found that no matter what a person's level of ability, motivation must come from within, or it will not last.
Grete Waitz
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Coaches know that a parent publicly scolding his kid after a race will not help the athlete perform better.
Don Kardong
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When you are caring about your children perhaps you always have to remember at what point you can become over involved because of something you need rather than something the child needs.
Frank Shorter
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Programming is a skill best acquired by practice and example rather than from books.
Alan Turing
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