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Long Distance Runner Inspirational Quotes (404)

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Endurance running was my passion, my ride. So here, I was in the driver's seat, running for two days straight pushing the mental and physical limits striving to be better, to go farther, to give more.
Dean Karnazes
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Your life is a gift from the Creator. Your gift back to the Creator is what you do with your life.
Billy Mills
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What I want is to be number one.
Steve Prefontaine
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If it comes easy, if it doesn’t require extraordinary effort, you’re not pushing hard enough. It’s supposed to hurt like hell.
Dean Karnazes
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Some people create with words or with music or with a brush and paints. I like to make something beautiful when I run
Steve Prefontaine
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I found I could also be good in cross country. I don't think my running style has anything to do with it. If you have speed and your body feels good, you can do any distance.
Catherine Ndereba
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God knew my needs and took care accordingly.
Louis Zamperini
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That is not enough. Sport has been great for me, a great learning place that if you want to achieve you can, even if you are from the poorest part of Africa.
Haile Gebrselassie
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What can you do if a part of it is uphill? You can't work out another route. You've just got to run the one they give you. But they tell me London is a nice course. Even the cobbles, I hope, are not very much of a problem for me.
Haile Gebrselassie
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When you run the marathon, you run against the distance, not against the other runners and not against the time.
Haile Gebrselassie
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In every race there is a crucial moment when the body wants to quit. Then it needs imagination and mental tenacuty to survive the crisis. Otherwise the penalty is defeat.
Derek Ibbotson
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The beauty of my sport is that you can do it from anywhere.
Meb Keflezighi
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People suddenly expected less of me and I didn't want that. Not only could I keep up with sighted kids, I could excel. I have an intense competiveness that was always in me.
Marla Runyan
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You can't become a winner overnight, or even in a couple of years-it takes time... You will lose races and you will have to accept that, learn from it and believe that you'll win the next one, knowing that you'll probably lose that as well. All the time you have to keep believing that one day you will win.
Paula Radcliffe
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I deliberately returned slowly to training after Raphael was born and everything, apart from being bitten by a dog while out training in Monaco at the beginning of the year, has gone pretty well.
Paula Radcliffe
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I don't just go out there and run. I like to give people watching something exciting.
Steve Prefontaine
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When I came to New York in 1978, I was a full-time school teacher and track runner, and determined to retire from competitive running. But winning the New York City Marathon kept me running for another decade.
Grete Waitz
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I love running and I will always run.
Haile Gebrselassie
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When I wake up at 5 in the morning is it just to jog? Definitely not, I give it all of my efforts.
Haile Gebrselassie
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If you just go out there and run 100 miles, it breaks down a lot of barriers in terms of self-imposed limitations.
Dean Karnazes
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At big championships it's not the fastest person, it's the person who gets it right on the day.
Paula Radcliffe
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The reward of running — of anything — lies within us … We focus on something external to motivate us, but we need to remember that it’s the process of reaching for that prize — not the prize itself — that can bring us peace and joy.
Scott Jurek
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This hand is not very active always, because it was in this hand that I carried my books. My carrying hand was always my strongest. Now I think my other hand has developed more muscles from signing all those autographs.
Haile Gebrselassie
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It was a very hard life. As I got older, the family was depending very much on me. My two older brothers got married, so they had their own families depending on them. I had seven people relying on me, so I worked in a grocery store.
Martin Lel
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