Long Distance Runners Quotes

#1. Motherhood to me is something that I always wanted, but never quite knew how it was going to happen.

Catherine Zeta-Jones

#2. Long slow distance makes long slow runners.

Jim Bush

#3. I don't know what truculent means, but if it's good, it's me

Muhammad Ali

#4. I only know how to approach a place by walking. For what does a street photographer do but walk and watch and wait and talk, and then watch and wait some more, trying to remain confident that the unexpected, the unknown, or the secret heat of the known awaits just around the corner.

Alex Webb

#5. They continued to run together for the next thirty minutes. Not a word between them, only the unspoken pulse of the run. Jacob believed runners shared an implicit doctrine: push through the pain to hit a point where it doesn't hurt anymore.

Jacqueline Simon Gunn

#6. Once we get into the groove, we're kind of like long-distance runners - that adrenalin kicks in for me and I just keep running - and I don't stop!

Keith Urban

#7. And if any of you want some tips on running, don't be in a hurry, and never let any of the other runners know you are in a hurry even if you are. You can always overtake on long-distance running without letting others smell the hurry in you.

Colin S. Smith

#8. Whenever we encounter a human being in such a way that we feel absolutely certain of the infinity of that person's worth and the eternity of his or her life, that is Easter.

Eugen Drewermann

#9. That's part of the curse: If you're gonna play the song, you better play it. I've tried to phone in 'Jeremy' a few times, and it's tough. It doesn't work.

Eddie Vedder

#10. You are so busy being YOU that you have no idea how utterly unprecedented you are.

John Green

#11. Each FBI employee understands that to defeat the key threats facing our nation, we must constantly strive to be more efficient and more effective. Just as our adversaries continue to evolve, so, too, must the FBI.

James Comey

#12. I do not always know what I want, but I do know what I don't want.

Stanley Kubrick

#13. Long-distance runners have to be very strange people. You have to really want to do it. You don't have to win or beat someone, you just have to get through the thing. That's the sense of victory. The sense of self-worth.

Ted Corbitt

#14. Only if you reach the boundary will the boundary recede before you. And if you don't, if you confine your efforts, the boundary will shrink to accommodate itself to your efforts. And you can only expand your capacities by working to the very limit.

Hugh Nibley

#15. There is drama in both kinds of love: the kind of love that makes you want to become a good person and the kind of love that makes you want to become a bad person.

Yokoyari Mengo

#16. I've always felt that long, slow distance produces long, slow runners.

Sebastian Coe

#17. As a college coach, I felt you could make a difference in a player's life. There was an educational aspect I thought was important.

Tom Osborne

#18. I will always remember and we must all remember that Democrats are our political rivals, not our enemies, and they deserve our respect.

Ken Mehlman

#19. This is a strange country we live in. When it comes to electing a President, we get two choices. But when we have to select a Miss America, we get 50.

Jay Leno

#20. That name was a sadistic play on the Underground Railroad that smuggled American slaves north. The old Nazis set up their own version and used it mainly to move their people. They called it Die Spinne.

John Pearce

#21. Do not be like those on whom advice has no effect and who require punishment to correct themselves.

Ali Ibn Abi Talib