Distance Runner Sayings

#1. Frustration is the first step towards improvement. I have no incentive to improve if I'm content with what I can do and if I'm completely satisfied with my pace, distance and form as a runner. It's only when I face frustration and use it to fuel my dedication that I feel myself moving forwards.

John Bingham

#2. I want to be a lawyer, a dancer, an actress, a mother, a wife, a children's author, a distance runner, a poet, a pianist, a pet store owner, an astronaut, an environmental and humanitarian activist, a psychiatrist, a ballet teacher, and the first woman president.

Rachel Corrie

#3. They say the breaks even up in the long run, and the trick is to be a long-distance runner.

Chuck Knox

#4. In a long distance race, everyone gets tired. The winner is the runner who figures out where to put the tired, figures out how to store it away until after the race is over. Sure, he's tired. Everyone is. That's not the point. The point is to run.

Seth Godin

#5. Man is a distance runner as a consequence of hundreds of thousands of years of chasing antelopes, horses, elephants, wild cattle, and deer.

Paul Shepard

#6. Polish the young woman's ego like wax on a wood floor, Shinola on shoes, spit on an apple.

Dennis Vickers

#7. Oh, fine, Eleanor thought. The children of hell shan't go hungry on my watch.

Rainbow Rowell

#8. My gaze darted to the entry of the grocery store, trying to determine the distance if I had to make a run for it. I wasn't much of a runner.

J. Lynn

#9. There's no such thing as a bad carbohydrate.

Don Kardong

#10. The novelist is more a marathon runner than long-distance runner and the kind of courage it takes working in such isolation cannot be underestimated. I really respect my fellow writers on this front.

Tobsha Learner

#11. Propaganda is a sprinter, but truth is a long-distance runner.

Ernest Partridge

#12. When I hit New York in 1972, I thought I was a sprinter. I thought that I would star in a Broadway show and do a movie and win an Oscar by the time I was 25. It turned out that I'm a long distance runner.

Beth Grant

#13. I am a distance runner, a marathoner ... literally and figuratively.

Al Jarreau

#14. No, she thought, putting together some of the pictures he had cut out - a refrigerator, a mowing machine, a gentleman in evening dress - children never forget. For this reason, it was so important what one said, and what one did, and it was a relief when they went to bed.

Virginia Woolf

#15. The best proof of intelligent life in space is that it hasn't come here.

Arthur C. Clarke

#16. It's always the music first for me. But if the music isn't selling, there isn't gonna be no business. So you gotta make sure music is always the first priority.

Akon

#17. In the big city, if the man next door happens to be a slum landlord, a Mafia bag man, or a long distance runner, what does it matter, as long as he puts his garbage out on Tuesdays?

Hal Higdon

#18. Actually, ambition won't get you that far. You'll shift gears. You'll see something that's shinier. But if you believe ... then you're the long-distance runner.

Sam Abell

#19. It's a treat, being a long-distance runner, out in the world by yourself . . . - Alan Sillitoe, The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner

John L. Parker Jr.

#20. See, records have helped me to fall in love, no question. I hear something new, with a chord change that melts my guts, and before I know it I'm looking for someone, and before I know it I've
found her.

Nick Hornby

#21. love's not just the drug; it's also the dealer.

David Mitchell

#22. You learn to run like a sprinter, you'll be a great distance runner

Alberto Salazar

#23. To be a champion long-distance runner you have to run on the edge of death.

Toshihiko Seko

#24. If you want to be a successful runner, you have to consider everything. It's no good just thinking about endurance and not to develop fine speed.

Arthur Lydiard

#25. I'm a long distance runner, and I get my best ideas when I'm out running. It also helps that I can't write it down immediately - if you hold onto an idea, other things will stick on it.

Patrick Ness

#26. I try to squeeze in a workout whenever I can, even if it's doing squats with my 7-month-old in the kitchen or jumping on the trampoline with my 5-year-old.

Jennie Finch

#27. I'm not much of a distance runner, more of a sprinter.

Carrie Jones