Athlete Running Quotes

#1. It takes patience to become the best runner you can be. Top athletes realize that running is a long-term sport. It is set up for people who value delayed gratification and who like hard-earned success.

Anthony Famiglietti

#2. I'm never going to be an athlete, never going to be running triathlons - I'm not that person.

Jamie Lee Curtis

#3. I was not talented enough to run and smile at the same time

Emil Zatopek

#4. All athletes need three things: commitment, discipline and hard work. Without that it's hard to keep running.

Haile Gebrselassie

#5. 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

#6. The athlete who says that something can't be done should never interrupt the one who's doing it

John Wooden

#7. To keep from decaying, to be a winner, the athlete must accept pain - not only accept it, but look for it, live with it, learn not to fear it.

George A. Sheehan

#8. 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

#9. If you can miss getting up in the morning and running into a wall, I miss playing football. I'll never be a frustrated athlete.

Brian Bosworth

#10. It is a paradox to say the human body has no 'limit.' There must be a limit to the speed at which men can run. I feel this may be around 3:30 for the mile. However, another paradox remains - if an athlete manages to run 3:30, another runner could be found to marginally improve on that time.

Roger Bannister

#11. Across the board you can run up against 10 athletes where we're the same physically. They've done the same kind of training; they are in the same kind of shape. But the one that wins is the person who really believes they can win.

Benita Johnson

#12. We always spend more time on the throwing events and a little bit more on the long jump. They're my weaker events - they don't come as naturally to me as running and jumping. I like the hurdles and the high-jump, I'm a springy, speedy athlete so those suit me.

Jessica Ennis

#13. Confidence is the most important quality in all athlete-coach relationships.

Franz Stampfl

#14. Several of my critics have said, 'Bowerman just tacks up a piece of paper in the locker room and turns his runners loose.' They're partially right. I do give the athletes a relatively free rein and for good reason. One of my principles is? 'Don't overcoach.'

Bill Bowerman

#15. I don't drink. I don't kiss girls. These things do an athlete in.

Suleiman Nyambui

#16. We are like highly trained athletes, who never run a race.

Paul Samuelson

#17. Every athlete has doubts. Elite runners in particular are insecure people. You need someone to affirm that what you are doing is right.

Lynn Jennings

#18. If an athlete takes a shortcut - literally, for example, by running a street that shortens the marathon route by a quarter mile - he or she doesn't have an insurmountable advantage. But it's an unfair advantage, and in a field of equally matched athletes, it's more than enough to make a difference.

Don Kardong

#19. The shortstop is a perfectly conditioned athlete. You're running out on relays all the time. You're covering second base. On every pitch, you're moving.

Lou Boudreau

#20. I don't want to get too detailed into it, but when you're a good high school running back, you can almost be whatever type of runner you want to be. If you're a good size and a good athlete, you can be whatever type of runner you want.

Barry Sanders

#21. I didn't want to fall back. But I realized it was more important to make it to the end under my own power than to run flat out in the lead or in second and then run out of fuel with a lap to go.

Danica Patrick

#22. Behind me are a hard 2 weeks of training, so I feel a little bit tired right now, but my goal for the race in Cardiff and Pau remains the same as in all races. I want to do well and have good runs and enjoy racing. The results come by itself when I do that.

Peter Kauzer

#23. It probably won't sink in until I've retired from running but I'm a much better athlete than two years ago.

Michael East

#24. Climbing is a process - like yoga or running. We want to go to the spots where we're barely able to hold on. Those are the climbs that force us to become better athletes and grow as climbers.

Chris Sharma

#25. An athlete may run ten thousand miles in order to prepare for one hundred yards. Quantity gives experience.

Ray Bradbury

#26. Whether we athletes liked it or not, the 4-minute mile had become rather like an Everest: a challenge to the human spirit, it was a barrier that seemed to defy all attempts to break it, an irksome reminder that men's striving might be in vain.

Roger Bannister

#27. Running makes you an athlete in all areas of life ... trained in the basics, prepared for whatever comes, ready to fill each hour and deal with the decisive moment.

George A. Sheehan

#28. What makes a great endurance athlete is the ability to absorb potential embarrassment, and to suffer without complaint.

Lance Armstrong

#29. The important thing is the attitude of the athlete, the desire to get to the top.

Herb Elliott

#30. It's a great feeling as a coach to see your athlete run well, hearing the oohs and aahs as she picks people off.

Bob Kersee

#31. To know you are one with what you are doing, to know that you are a complete athlete, begins with believing you are a runner.

George A. Sheehan

#32. I think it went really well. There was part of me that really wanted to go with the rabbit. But, honestly one thing that I struggle with a lot is really just competing ... being in a pack, running with a lot of bodies. I'm 17 and I'm still not really used to it, so the goal today was to just race.

Mary Cain

#33. I was an athlete growing up. I did a lot of sports: soccer, basketball, so I was always so used to hardcore training, a lot of running. I got to a point where I felt like I just wanted to get toned; I didn't need to shed pounds, so now I do Pilates.

Jacquelyn Jablonski

#34. Being an athlete is a state of mind which is not bound by age, performance or place in the running pack.

Jeff Galloway

#35. Unlike the traditional athlete, I've got to do more than just engage in my sport to put food on the table. When I'm done running, it's straight to the office.

Dean Karnazes

#36. Distance running to a professional athlete in my day was five laps around the field. And you stopped each lap to take your pulse.

Lynn Swann

#37. The key to getting the record is running fast because someone else did not take it too crazy at the beginning, so it leaves me with a lot of energy to close.

Bernard Lagat

#38. The less serious running of any description which an athlete indulges in before eighteen, the better for his future prospects.

Alfred Shrubb

#39. I'd noticed him watching me for a year or so, especially when we'd play games where there was running or jumping.

Jesse Owens

#40. Professional football's a tough game. It's a lot of contact. It's a lot of wear and tear on your body. You've got elite athletes running into each other, play after play, at high speeds. And this is something that I love and I enjoy.

John Urschel

#41. Well, no athlete respects a big, fat coach who's going to stand there and rest the watch on his stomach.

Arthur Lydiard

#42. As athletes, we have ups and downs. Unfortunately, you can't pick the days they come on.

Deena Kastor

#43. I trained with Olympics Athlete Jeanette Kwakye - who is amazing! And Shani Anderson, who is an excellent Olympic runner. We trained five times a week; running, circuits, weights, working out in the gym, and on the track. It was an insane time.

Lily James

#44. I like using one QB. If we have two that are relatively equal, then we can't afford to have one on the bench. They need to be on the field at running back, receiver or defensive back. I'm not going to waste an athlete on the sidelines.

Alan Chadwick

#45. Everyone is an athlete. The only difference is that some of us are in training, and some are not.

George A. Sheehan

#46. (On returning to Austin to run at his collegiate stadium) It is almost like coming home with the crowd, the people, and it just brings it home for me. For me, it is a very special place, it is great energy, and again I always seem to run very well here. So I love coming back.

Leonel Manzano

#47. I've been a professional athlete, I've directed films, I've run a company with 150 employees, and nothing compares to writing a screenplay. Just the second I think I know what I'm doing, the rug gets pulled out and I have no idea what I'm doing. Because there are so many problems to solve.

Stacy Peralta