Running Quotes

Welcome to my running quotes. Running has always intrigued me. It seems freeing in a way that’s very unique, being able to run with the wind behind you and all of nature around you. This is something I am working on achieving myself. This is for all the running lovers out there enjoy.

• RUNNING QUOTE OF THE PAGE
  Champions do not become champions when they win the event, but in the hours, weeks, months and years they spend preparing for it. The victorious performance itself is merely the demonstration of their championship character.
  T. Alan Armstrong


• When people ask me why I run, I tell them, there's not really a reason, it's just the adrenalin when you start, and the feeling when you cross that finish line, and know that you are a winner no matter what place you got.
  Courtney Parsons


• I run because it's my passion, and not just a sport. Every time I walk out the door, I know why I'm going where I'm going and I'm already focused on that special place where I find my peace and solitude. Running, to me, is more than just a physical exercise... it's a consistent reward for victory!
  Sasha Azevedo


• My feeling is that any day I am too busy to run is a day that I am too busy.
  John Bryant


• The five S's of sports training are: Stamina, Speed, Strength, Skill and Spirit;but the greatest of these is Spirit.
  Ken Doherty


• If you run 100 miles a week, you can eat anything you want -- Why? Because (a) you'll burn all the calories you consume, (b) you deserve it, and (c) you'll be injured soon and back on a restricted diet anyway.
  Don Kardong


• People don't know why we run, but it's the hard work you put into practice, and the reward you get from the race.
  Courtney Parsons


• When the meal was over we all had a quiet rest in our rooms and I meditated on the race. This is the time when an athlete feels all alone in the big world. Opponents assume tremendous stature. Any runner who denies having fears, nerves or some kind of disposition is a bad athlete, or a liar.
  Gordon Pirie


• To describe the agony of a marathon to someone who's never run it is like trying to explain color to someone who was born blind.
  Jerome Drayton


• Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up. It knows it must outrun the fastest lion or it will be killed.Every morning in Africa, a lion wakes up. It knows that it must run faster than the slowest gazelle, or it will starve.It doesn't matter whether you're a lion or a gazelle when the sun comes up you'd better be running.(But, unless you're a runner, you won't understand.)
  Anon


• Run like hell and get the agony over with.
  Clarence DeMar


• School cross country runs started because the rugby pitches were flooded. There was an alternative: extra studying. This meant there were plenty of runners on sports afternoons.
  Gordon Pirie


• Jogging through the forest is pleasant, as is relaxing by the fire with a glass of gentle Bordeaux and discussing one's travels. Racing is another matter. The frontrunner's mind is filled with an anguished fearfulness, a panic, which drives into pain.
  Kenny Moore


• Stadiums are for spectators. We runners have nature and that is much better.
  Juha Väätäinen


• Once you're beat mentally, you might as well not even go to the starting line.
  Todd Williams


• I have never been a killer. I'm not an aggressive personality and if I can remember any emotion I felt during a race it was fear. The greatest stimulator of my running was fear.
  Herb Elliott






• The freedom of Cross Country is so primitive. It's woman vs. nature.
  Lynn Jennings


• No one knows the fear in a front runner's mind more than me. When you set off at a cracking pace for four or five laps and find that your main rivals are still breathing down your neck, that's when you start to panic.
  Ron Clarke


• Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
  Will Rogers


• It is true that speed kills. In distance running, it kills anyone who does not have it.
  Brooks Johnson


• Running is real and relatively simple…but it ain't easy.
  Mark Will-Weber


• The start of a World Cross Country event is like riding a horse in the middle of a buffalo stampede. It's a thrill if you keep up, but one slip and you're nothing but hoof prints.
  Ed Eyestone


• Get out well, but not too quickly, move through the field, be comfortable. Strategy-wise, go with your strengths. If you don't have a great finish, you must get away to win. I've always found it effective to make a move just before the crest of a hill. You get away just a little and you're gone before your opponent gets over the top. Also, around a tight bend, take off like holy hell. I've done that a number of times. You should not be flying down the home straight. Most of your efforts should have been put forth earlier.
  John Treacy (Ireland's two-time world cross country champion)


• When I was about 14 or 15, and running in a pretty muddy cross country race, one of my shoes stuck in the mud and came off. Boy, was I wild. To think that I had trained hard for this race and didn't do up my shoelace tightly enough! I really got aggressive with myself, and I found myself starting to pass a lot of runners. As it turned out, I improved something like twenty places in that one race. But I never did get my shoe back.
  Rob de Castella


• I prefer running without shoes. My toes didn't get cold. Besides, if I'm in front from the start, no one can step on them.
  Michelle Dekkers (the barefoot South African runner who won the 1989 cross country title for Indiana)


• World records are only borrowed.
  Sebastian Coe


• I limbered up just a little before entering the stadium, and even so I felt a twinge in my thigh, no doubt the fruit of my imagination. And I went back to the massage room so that my faithful Morizot could take the trouble off my muscles. This soothed me considerably and I thought I was back to a normal state until somebody summoned me to the starting line. It was like feeling a blade go through my flesh.
  Jules Ladoumegue


• He cleared the hurdles like he feared they had spikes imbedded on the top, and leaped the water hazard as if he thought crocodiles were swimming in it.
  A description of Kenya's Amos Biwotts's steeplechase win in Mexico City


• I was pushed by myself because I have my own rule, and that is that every day I run faster, and try harder.
  Wilson Kipketer


• Learn to run when feeling the pain: then push harder.
  William Sigei

Thanks for passing by my running quotes. These running quotes just make me want to run more. There seems to be a freedom in running a freedom you can not find anywhere else. I hope you found some inspiration from these great running quotes. Till next time and keep on running.

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