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Marathon Runner Inspirational Quotes (483)

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If you keep chasing your dreams, one day you'll catch them.
Dean Karnazes
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Running made me feel like a bird let out of a cage, I loved it that much.
Priscilla Welch
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I think there's only one sensible place for a person to be at 5:30 in the morning. That's in bed. And what am I doing? I'm out running. And I completely hate this.
Derek Clayton
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You've got to look for tough competition. You've got to want to beat the best.
Grete Waitz
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Looking back... it's hard to understand what all the fuss was about as things changed in just a few years. When you look at all the things that have happened in the world, it seems very small.
Zola Budd
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Why should I say I will retire in three or four years? You retire the very moment you utter those words.
Haile Gebrselassie
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I want to go down in history.
Haile Gebrselassie
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To put it another way, Michael Jordan was a gym rat.
Frank Shorter
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Unless in communicating with it one says exactly what one means, trouble is bound to result.
Alan Turing
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Confidence is a belief in myself and my ability. I built my confidence through hard training. I believed there was no one out there working any harder than me.
Joan Benoit
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There's no such thing as a bad carbohydrate.
Don Kardong
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Avoid any diet that discourages the use of hot fudge.
Don Kardong
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You have to want it, you have to plan for it, you have to fit it into a busy day, you have to be mentally tough, you have to use others to help you. The hard part isn't getting your body in shape. The hard part is getting your mind in shape.
Amby Burfoot
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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.
Marion Irvine
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I was constantly told and challenged to live my life as a warrior. As a warrior, you assume responsibility for yourself. The warrior humbles himself. And the warrior learns the power of giving.
Billy Mills
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If you want to win a race you have to go a little berserk.
Bill Rodgers
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Don't feel guilty about driving somewhere nice to run. If people can drive to a park to eat hot dogs, you can drive there to run.
Bill Rodgers
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If I have nothing to sacrifice, I have nothing to gain.
Catherine Ndereba
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Once upon a time, about 20 years ago, runners believed they didn't have to do anything but run
Amby Burfoot
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The marathon is my only girlfriend. I give her everything I have.
Toshihiko Seko
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I started in law school in '71 and graduated in '74. So I was training for the Olympics, running or averaging around 20 miles a day and going to law school full time.
Frank Shorter
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The label of 'marathoner' has, from the beginning, been awarded to those who went the distance under their own power, whether they ran, walked, crawled or tiptoed. When you cross that finish line, you've entered an elite group. About one-tenth of one percent of the population has done it. Don't let anyone take that great achievement away from you.
Jeff Galloway
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1967 race in Boston changed not just my life, but millions of women's lives. There are also things that, when you get older, resonate more.
Kathrine Switzer
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I've never known a runner who had as much patience as he needed.
Amby Burfoot
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