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Long Distance Runner Inspirational Quotes (404)

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People tell me, You're such an optimist. Am I an optimist? An optimist says the glass is half full. A pessimist says the glass is half empty. A survivalist is practical. He says, Call it what you want, but just fill the glass. I believe in filling the glass.
Louis Zamperini
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In terms of fitness and battling through cancer, exercise helps you stay strong physically and mentally.
Grete Waitz
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I do a lot of marathons as training runs. If I'm somewhere and there's a marathon, I'll sign up and just go run it.
Dean Karnazes
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All top international athletes wake up in the morning feeling tired and go to bed feeling very tired.
Brendan Foster
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I actually got a nice surprise about being a mother because I expected it to be harder and to have to make more adaptations.
Paula Radcliffe
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People say, on the raft, you must have hallucinated. Baloney. We were sharper after 47 days than the day we started because our minds were empty of all the war and contamination we had clean minds to fill with good thoughts. Every day we'd exercise our minds.
Louis Zamperini
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No excuses. Just do the work.
Shalane Flanagan
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Toeing the starting line of a marathon, regardless of the language you speak, the God you worship or the color of your skin, we all stand as equal. Perhaps the world would be a better place if more people ran.
Dean Karnazes
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Once you make the decision that you will not fail, the heart and the body will follow.
Kara Goucher
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In a country where only men are encouraged, one must be one's own inspiration.
Tegla Loroupe
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Running is 80 percent mental.
Joan Benoit
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Some people start a sport just to reduce weight, or some say, 'My doctor ordered me to run and do exercise', and for others, they run for completely different benefits. But it is not like that with sport. We need to eat, we need to rest, but also we need to run.
Haile Gebrselassie
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We (ultra runners) alternate between depression and stupidity.
Don Kardong
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Some seek the comfort of their therapist's office, other head to the corner pub and dive into a pint, but I chose running as my therapy.
Dean Karnazes
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There is always joy in achieving ,but the greater satisfaction lies in sharing the achievement.
Kipchoge Keino
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Somebody may beat me, but they are going to have to bleed to do it.
Steve Prefontaine
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I know runners who have suffered a tick bite and ended up with Lyme disease. Ill take an angry moose any day.
Don Kardong
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If you want to tell something to an athlete, say it quickly and give no alternatives. This is a game of winning and losing. It is senseless to explain and explain.
Paavo Nurmi
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Sure I'm cut but not for the sake of vanity.
Dean Karnazes
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The idea of losing the three at Hayward Field and the idea of losing my specialty to someone who wasn't running his specialty. Mostly, the idea of losing in front of my people. They haven't forgotten about me.
Steve Prefontaine
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God has given me so much. He expects so much out of me.
Louis Zamperini
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I haven't done a marathon for a long time. So we'll see. I will need good luck.
Haile Gebrselassie
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I find the business world hard.
Haile Gebrselassie
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My school was six miles away from where I lived on the farm. I had to walk and run, there and back every day, through gorges and over rivers. If I was late, there was a very big stick waiting for me.
Haile Gebrselassie
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