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Marathon Runner Inspirational Quotes (483)

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Everyone has stress. A good run may not erase it, but it can reduce the effect and allow runners to gain control.
Jeff Galloway
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It was a very strange, disappointing race in that no one wanted to take it out. That's why I took the lead. I wanted some people to run the real distance and that was frustrating. So I took the pace around the second lap, which in some ways is suicidal...but I wanted the pace to be honest.
Marla Runyan
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When you promise something, you must fulfill it.
Haile Gebrselassie
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Marathon running is a terrible experience: monotonous, heavy, and exhausting.
Veikko Karvonen
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I plan to be running as long as I can and have no plans to stop.
Frank Shorter
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Instead of trying to produce a programme to simulate the adult mind, why not rather try to produce one which simulates the child's? If this were then subjected to an appropriate course of education one would obtain the adult brain.
Alan Turing
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Once you've committed yourself to something, pace yourself to the finish line.
Meb Keflezighi
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When I run in Ethiopia, I look out and see eucalyptus trees and rivers.
Haile Gebrselassie
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Don't wait until you get hungry to eat. Eating throughout the day is best. And obviously sleep is important.
Meb Keflezighi
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The marathon is all about energy management. I had planned to run it like a track race with strategic surges to blow up my competitors by putting them into oxygen debt, so that is the way I prepared.
Frank Shorter
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It doesn't matter how fast or how far you're going. If you're putting on your shoes and going out for a run, you are a runner, you are in that club.
Kara Goucher
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Don't ever discourage someone from trying to better their life and health
Kara Goucher
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It's not easy to run a marathon, I know it will be painful but when I start it, I know I'm going to finish it
Fauja Singh
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I have to change a lot of things before I become a good marathon runner.
Haile Gebrselassie
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A lack of forgiveness is a waste of time and it's very enriching to forgive and move on but those are things that come with time.
Kathrine Switzer
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The key to running a good marathon is to not listen to anyone's advice the last week before the race. That's when people tend to do stupid things that disrupt all the input and training of the previous months.
Don Kardong
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Be unrelenting. If you don't believe, then who will?
Kara Goucher
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I remember in particular my first victory when I achieved a very fast time in what were perfect conditions but since then the wind has always been a factor against me.
Haile Gebrselassie
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If all you do is make excuses, then that is how people see you. Make your strengths visible.
Marla Runyan
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When you have the enthusiasm and the passion, you end up figuring how to excel.
Deena Kastor
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As athletes, we have ups and downs. Unfortunately, you can't pick the days they come on.
Deena Kastor
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Always, if you win mentally, you can win physically as well.
Haile Gebrselassie
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The weather is perfect. The gods are shining on us.
Frank Shorter
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The irony of that is, what makes it kind of ironic, is when you do become successful as a professional athlete in particular, a lot of the young children who are emulating these stars do have a different perspective.
Frank Shorter
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