Top 37 Joe Henderson Quotes
#1. A course never quite looks the same way twice. The combinations of weather, season, light, feelings and thoughts that you find there are ever-changing.
Joe Henderson
#2. Our favorite: a former garbage dump converted into a riverside park. I first ran there more than 30 years ago when a marathon passed through this park that later became home to Pre's Trail.
Joe Henderson
#3. Yet the home courses are where you spend dozens to hundreds of hours a year. You must choose them well.
Joe Henderson
#4. When running to fill a time quota, however, the reverse happens. You can't make that time pass any faster by rushing, so you settle into a pace that feels right to you at the moment. Each minute above a quota is a little victory.
Joe Henderson
#5. They trained mostly by time periods, checking their pace for known distance only on special occasions.
Joe Henderson
#6. The hours, minutes and seconds stand as visible reminders that your effort put them all there. Preserve until your next run, when the watch lets you see how Impermanent your efforts are.
Joe Henderson
#7. In fact, the bandits steal the drinks and assistance provided along the course. Worse, they cross the finish line and mess up the scoring of legitimate runners.
Joe Henderson
#8. Where did you run today? Now there's a question you don't often hear.
Joe Henderson
#9. These thieves defend themselves by saying, 'I was there all the time, and the officials missed me.' Favorite excuses for missing surveillance checkpoints: jacket covered the number took off the shirt with the number hidden in a crowd.
Joe Henderson
#10. It's so obviously bogus, no one will look for a second layer of, er, bogusity.
Lois McMaster Bujold
#11. His name, Buzz, fits. He can buzz along at 40 miles an hour when his genetic memory moves him.
Joe Henderson
#12. I feared the verdict of the watch, where I either lost the race against time that day or would lose it soon by making the record even harder to break. The time trap had snapped shut.
Joe Henderson
#13. I know they are naught things, but I devour novels. (p. 57).
Shannon Hale
#14. A truly feminine woman should always retain a little air of mystery.
Louis Jourdan
#15. The noise kept up and did not stop. My head rang. I saw Shepherd take the chewing gum from his mouth, break it into two, and stick it in both ears. He kept working.
Kenneth Oppel
#16. That's how most of us would feel. But the sport has a few deviants without consciences.
Joe Henderson
#17. My touchstone for following a line of wisdom is; 'living the philosophy should bring freedom to the individual, and love, wisdom and compassion to society, to our relationships'.
Phil 'Philosofree' Cheney
#18. When I was 26, I wrote my first mystery, 'The Thomas Berryman Number', and it was turned down by, I don't know, 31 publishers. Then it won an Edgar for Best First Novel. Go figure.
James Patterson
#19. The natural urge when running a distance is to push harder and finish sooner - to race against time. Every second behind a deadline is a little defeat.
Joe Henderson
#20. A lesser but still fundamental rule of racing is that you properly enter the event. Anyone who doesn't but still insists on running interferes with the paying customers.
Joe Henderson
#21. We live in a nation where, when New Jersey figures out how to do something and does it well, and shows progress, it affects other states.
Cory Booker
#22. You're stubborn- anyone ever tell you that before?
Carrie Ryan
#23. When common sense has no power over me. Common nonsense takes possession of my soul.
L.M. Montgomery
#24. This act demonstrates graphically a turning away the past and moving ahead. You now get to refresh your time in a friendly way by running with the watch instead of against it or away from it.
Joe Henderson
#25. Lord knows I'm not the poster child for eating right and exercising, so I don't want to give that impression at all! This is the same person who people have watched have a weight problem in her teens, so come on!
Kim Fields
#26. But as God said,
crossing his legs,
I see where I have made plenty of poets
but not so very much
poetry.
Charles Bukowski
#27. Buzz has reduced my range. Running safely with him means using fewer and shorter routes, with multiple laps per day or multiple returns there per week. Neither of us minds repeating ourselves. This is what runners do.
Joe Henderson
#28. The results would have stayed on the watch face until the batteries died. But trying to make time stand still this way would have been a mistake. It is just as important to erase times eventually as to save them at first.
Joe Henderson
#29. The Chip also reduces the damage done by bandits. They still steal drinks and cheers along the course, but no longer scramble the paying runners' results. No entry fee, no Chip, no time or place.
Joe Henderson
#30. Ours is a life of constant reruns. We're always circling back to where we'd we started, then starting all over again. Even if we don't run extra laps that day, we surely will come back for more of the same another day soon.
Joe Henderson
#31. The records fell easily at first. Dozens of seconds peeled away with every running of a course, and I could hardly wait for the next chance to improve.
Joe Henderson
#32. Speed eventually neared its peak. The records forced me to work ever harder to drop a less and less time. These time trials came to feel like races, which are fun to run sporadically but not daily.
Joe Henderson
#33. Time means a great deal to every runner. It means everything to me, because most days miles don't count; only minutes do.
Joe Henderson
#35. That time is important. It gives a comforting illusion of permanence not found in running by the mile.
Joe Henderson
#36. I feel that Wilton Felder and Wayne Henderson have involved themselves so deeply into being Jehovah's Witnesses that Stix Hooper and I have decided we simply cannot tiptoe around them. Now at 53 years old, I am looking forward to the rest of my life.
Joe Sample
#37. I've lived nearby since 1981 and probably have averaged one run a week there. That's more than 1,000 repetitions, and I have yet to tire of this course.
Joe Henderson
