Marathon Quotes

#1. If youre a vegan who ran a marathon & got your dogs from a shelter, how do you decide which thing to wedge into the conversation first?

Ken Jennings

#2. I'm interested in Dathan Ritzenhein's future in the marathon, and I believe that's where we need to address some issues he seems to have. He's had good marathon coaches - both Brad Hudson and me. He's figured out the fueling. He's got this incredible aerobic engine. But something's still wrong.

Alberto Salazar

#3. It's a bit like running a marathon, isn't it? It's only when you reach the finish line that you have time to collapse.

Lucinda Riley

#4. A lot of our fiscal deficit went to fund consumption and really did not get used to build investment and infrastructure. The trouble is, you can get a spurt in GDP growth, which may not be sustainable. I would much rather build the gradient of a long-term marathon.

Uday Kotak

#5. Mary Keitany from Kenya won the women's race at the New York City Marathon. You can tell she was fast because guys on the street didn't even have time to finish their catcalls.

David Letterman

#6. My wife and I work out together almost every day. It's just a great way to spend time together. We're going to run a marathon together later this year, and that's one more goal that we'll accomplish as husband and wife.

Bill Rancic

#7. You wouldn't run a marathon the day before you run a marathon, you need to leave some sort of surprise for your body.

Greg James

#8. Boston is the cream of the crop of the marathon world. It has such history that you feel such honor just being a part of it. All the other races have pacers to get you to a Boston qualifying time.

Summer Sanders

#9. Yeah, yeah, success is a ladder, a marathon instead of a sprint and all that crap. Everyone can TELL you stuff like that, but you really have to understand advice in relation to YOURSELF, or it's all just nice intellectual theory.

Felicia Day

#10. I think it's important to keep mantras fresh (sometimes the same verse can get stale). That being said, I love this powerful statement: 'Define yourself.' I rehearsed it a million times during the 2005 Chicago Marathon [her first win].

Deena Kastor

#11. More and more I'm seeing motherhood as a marathon of endurance, not a sprint to the next stage of life.

Stacey Thacker

#12. Starting your book is only the first five miles of a twenty-six-mile marathon that's one-third of a triathlon (authoring, publishing, and entrepreneuring).

Guy Kawasaki

#13. Of all the races, there is no better stage for heroism than a marathon.

George A. Sheehan

#14. I love to run. I was challenged to run the New York marathon four months after having my youngest son, and since running isn't a big part of softball, the thought of a marathon was a stretch for me.

Jennie Finch

#15. If it's a nod from society you're looking for, run a marathon. But if it's a life-changing experience of personal strength and perseverance that you want, finish an ultra.

Vanessa Runs

#16. Every runner has a specific motivation and inspiration for running a marathon. This year, all 36,000 of us will 'run together' to demonstrate the spirit of the marathon. We will still have our individual motivations, but we will be unified under the Boston Strong umbrella.

Meb Keflezighi

#17. Rincewind had always been happy to think of himself as a racist. The One Hundred Meters, the Mile, the Marathon
he'd run them all.

Terry Pratchett

#18. I think psychedelics are sort of like doing calisthenics in preparation for the marathon at the end of time.

Terence McKenna

#19. I have to change a lot of things before I become a good marathon runner.

Haile Gebrselassie

#20. Winning times in the New York City Marathon have not dropped all that much over the years, but rather U.S. runners went backward. In 1983, there were 267 U.S. men who broke 2:20 in a marathon, and by 2000 that number was down to 27.

Alberto Salazar

#21. I might have to do the London Marathon. I like crowds, so that is why I like the big marathons.

Cara Buono

#22. I thought about running a marathon a long time ago, but I'm just not a runner.

Shannon Miller

#23. You wouldn't train for a marathon & then give up a mile before the finish line. Same goes with your life & dreams.

Dawn Gluskin

#24. I don't smoke, don't drink much, and go to the gym five times a week. I live a healthy lifestyle and feel great. I can run a marathon, you know.

Sarah Michelle Gellar

#25. Marathon tidying produces a heap of garbage. At this stage, the one disaster that can wreak more havoc than an earthquake is the entrance of that recycling expert who goes by the alias of "mother.

Marie Kondo

#26. I've run the marathon several times, so I definitely don't look like the Great Ancestor!

George Takei

#27. Humans are built for endurance, not speed. We're awful sprinters compared to every other animal. We try to run our races as if they were speed races, but they are not. They're endurance races. Even a marathon, the way it's run now, it's not an endurance contest.

Christopher McDougall

#28. I'm just trying to spread the word and upturn the myth that actually you should be resting after cancer treatment. You shouldn't; you should be getting out and doing any kind of exercise you can. You don't have to run a marathon, but you just have to up your activity levels.

Jo Brand

#29. Sometimes it's just surreal out there, while you're running a marathon. People just standing out in the cold, even the rain, cheering for you, blasting music for you. It's an awesome show of camaraderie and community.

John Roberts

#30. Marathon running is a terrible experience: monotonous, heavy, and exhausting.

Veikko Karvonen

#31. I think I liked writing a novel better. Obviously, it's more rewarding. It's that marathon thing where it sucks when you're doing it, but you're proud of yourself at the end, and you've done it, and at the very least, nobody can take that away from you.

Drew Magary

#32. In the marathon of life negativity is never as light-footed as a dreamer's sprint.

Bryant McGill

#33. I am the very model of a modern Major-General, I've information vegetable, animal, and mineral, I know the kings of England, and I quote the fights historical, From Marathon to Waterloo, in order categorical.

W.S. Gilbert

#34. No doubt a brain and some shoes are essential for marathon success, although if it comes down to a choice, pick the shoes. More people finish marathons with no brains than with no shoes.

Don Kardong

#35. The marathon has so many elements to prepare for. I think that is one reason I always want to come back for more. There is always something to change in your preparation and I am still trying to discover what I am capable of. I guess I just love the challenge.

Dathan Ritzenhein

#36. Our journey of discipleship is not a dash around the track, nor is it fully comparable to a lengthy marathon. In truth, it is a lifelong migration toward a more celestial world.

Neil L. Andersen

#37. In a marathon, if you run too fast, you get exhausted. If you run too slow, you never make it.

Uday Kotak

#38. That's my entire weekend. I had plans"
"A Vampire Dairies marathon is not plans." She looked at me like I lost my mind.
"Have you even seen the Salvatore brothers? Holy mother of gingersnaps.

Darynda Jones

#39. To maintain success, stamina is more important than talent. You have to learn to be a marathon runner.

Joan Rivers

#40. I haven't done a marathon for a long time. So we'll see. I will need good luck.

Haile Gebrselassie

#41. in 2007, Suni Williams ran the Boston Marathon in space, which took her only 4 hours and 24 minutes.)

Chris Hadfield

#42. It's always harder than you think to make a good film. Feature films are a hell of a marathon to say the least. It's kind of your endurance. How much can I push? How much do I care? How much time it takes is a nice reminder.

Shaul Schwarz

#43. 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

#44. Rereading parts of your novel while writing is like doubling back at rerunning parts of a marathon midrace.

Chris Baty

#45. I look at directing as a sporting event. It's a race, a marathon. It's great when it clicks, which is why I push my crews so hard so we can excel.

Michael Bay

#46. I love you. I've never met anyone that affects me the way you do. I feel like I could conguer the world, bench press a bus, and run a marathon when I'm with you. You make me feel alive and so happy I can't even think straight.

Marie Coulson

#47. I want to encourage people to make healthy life choices, whether it's training for a half-marathon, or eating more vegetables.

Kina Grannis

#48. The brand building process is a marathon that takes time with patience, persistence, consistence, and authenticity to deliver on your unique promise of value

Bernard Kelvin Clive

#49. Novel writing is the slowest art form in the world. It is not a sprint. It is not even a marathon. It is a series of marathons that stretch over and over across a continent.

Mohsin Hamid

#50. I wasn't going to toss off words like love and forever until I was sure. Until he was sure. Forever can be a very long time for a n=Bean sidhes, ans so far his track record looked more like the fifty-yard dash than the Boston marathon.

Rachel Vincent

#51. You have to forget your last marathon before you try another. Your mind can't know what's coming.

Frank Shorter

#52. training for the marathon is that in order to maintain a positive attitude about training and running, it is necessary to develop a positive attitude about life in general. It is almost impossible to be positive about

David Whitsett

#53. The marathon is a competition between your will and your possibilities

Jeff Galloway

#54. In the marathon obstacle course of a career, it's just good to have all the stats on paper for why you're not only a team player but also why it makes sense to support you in the projects you want to do - because you've made so much damned money for the studio.

Robert Downey Jr.

#55. In high school, during marathon phone conversations, cheap pizza dinners and long suburban car rides, I began to fall for boys because of who they actually were, or at least who I thought they might become.

J. Courtney Sullivan

#56. In the marathon a crazy athlete can just keep pushing from the beginning, at a championship you don't need a time just to win the race.

Haile Gebrselassie

#57. Playing a three-hour Rush show is like running a marathon while solving equations.

Neil Peart

#58. Since my fried left me,I've got nothing to do but walking.I walk to forget.I walk,I escape,I get further.My friend will not come back,now I am a marathon man.

Shel Silverstein

#59. Business is a marathon, and most of society thinks it's a sprint.

Gary Vaynerchuk

#60. You entered a marathon with hills? You idiot.

Don Kardong

#61. I pulled a hamstring during the New York City Marathon. An hour into the race, I jumped off the couch ...

David Letterman

#62. People say doing a startup is like a marathon. It's actually a roadtrip at night with no headlights. You think you're going to Toledo but you're actually going to Miami and you might not have enough gas so you might need to buy gas from someone who might take you out if you aren't driving well

Ben Silbermann

#63. If you change your lifestyle, remember it's not a wind sprint, but it's a marathon you're embarked on, and you'll be able to stay there.

Mehmet Oz

#64. The marathon is an opportunity for redemption. Opportunity, because the outcome is uncertain. Opportunity, because it is up to you, and only you, to make it happen.

Dean Karnazes

#65. Racing a marathon is a true and simple way to test the human spirit. Whether it goes perfectly or poorly you will certainly learn something about yourself and be a better person for having tackled the distance.

Blake Russell

#66. In the marathon anything can happen.

Paula Radcliffe

#67. She bought raffle tickets for charity, gave money to street performers, and was always sponsoring annoying friends who were running yet another marathon for some worthy cause (even though the true cause was their own fitness).

Liane Moriarty

#68. There are times when you run a marathon and you wonder, Why am I doing this? But you take a drink of water, and around the next bend, you get your wind back, remember the finish line, and keep going.

Steve Jobs

#69. I don't mind a chase, baby. Whether it's a sprint or a marathon makes no difference to me. I'll reach the finish line eventually. I don't know what you're running from, but I don't give up easy. I'll be seeing you soon.

Aidan Willows

#70. Her heart was beating a marathon somewhere in the region of her throat, her skin felt hot and stretched taut over her bones, and she was damp in places she was tolerably certain unmarried gentlewomen were not supposed to be damp in.

Gail Carriger

#71. At the time, in 1996, an electronic band signing with a major label was something new, at least in France. Daft Punk knew that this meant a marathon of promotion, TV appearances, etc. To protect themselves and to be discrete, they came up with the masks and, three years later, the robot helmets.

Pedro Winter

#72. A half marathon is a good way to have a bit of fun and race against those girls and learn a bit more about them. The world half marathon is a world championship at the end of the day and it's important. I've win it twice and it's a quality event.

Paula Radcliffe

#73. The Marathon distance is very difficult to cover and without the support of all of the fans and people cheering us on and the other runners, we would have a very difficult time to run the full race. So we work together to make a marathon happen.

Tilahun Regassa

#74. It can be said that the first half of the marathon is 20 miles long; the second half, 6.2 more.

Hal Higdon

#75. If you're going to die, die interesting! Is there anything worse than a boring death? (Other than a Charlie Rose marathon on PBS?) I think not. When my time comes I'm going to go out in high style. I have no intention of being sick or lingering or dragging on and on and boring everyone I know.

Joan Rivers

#76. Living life is like running a marathon. It takes a lot of courage and tenacity to keep going till the end.

Fauja Singh

#77. Writing a novel is like running a marathon. Selling one is like building a castle. You gotta do it one brick at a time.

Charles R. Hall

#78. Work hard with passion and courage. Life is a marathon of contribution. You really must work hard to accomplish something ... Find your passion and get good at it.

Jeffrey R. Immelt

#79. Quitting smoking is rather a marathon than a sprint. It is not a one-time attempt, but a longer effort

Aristotle.

#80. But the sounds behind me tell me why. I risk a glance and see so many Zs on our asses that I wonder if they've been doing pilates all this time to get in shape for the great Whispering Pines mad-dash marathon.

Jake Bible

#81. And then there's the perverse joy of subtly working in references to marathon training in daily life, say at the post office or while waiting outside my first-graders' classrooms at the end of the school day.

Sarah Bowen Shea

#82. Tamerlan Tsarnaev is telling no tales. The older of the two brothers who committed the Boston Marathon bombings was likely the one who planned the attack, but when he died in a shootout with police just days after the blasts, his thoughts and motivations vanished with him.

Jeffrey Kluger

#83. Being the lead of the show and working a lot of hours - all good stuff, a tremendous education, incredible opportunity, it changed my life - it was a marathon, and by the end of it I was pretty beat.

James Van Der Beek

#84. The American dream is not a sprint or even a marathon but a relay.

Julian Castro

#85. It's not that your back hurts, .. You get these horrible, ice cream brain-freeze headaches. So I would go in on the weekends and get these things called blood patches, where they'd shoot blood into your spine. It was like running a marathon to get it done.

George Clooney

#86. [We] have sex like Kenyan marathon runners.

Olivia Wilde

#87. The journey to greatness is a marathon, not a hundred meter dash.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#88. Life is marathon, not a sprint. It is a race we are all guaranteed to finish, so run wisely.

James North

#89. Freshman year was really great, actually. Pretty easy transition. We both made some new friends. No emotional trauma that wasn't solved with a Buggy and Floyd marathon. And then you had to get a boyfriend.

Elizabeth Eulberg

#90. Half of all broccoli grown commercially in America today is a single variety- Marathon- notable for it's high yield. The overwhelming majority of the chickens raised for meat in America are the same hybrid, the Cornish cross; more than 99 percent of turkeys are the Broad-Breasted Whites.

Michael Pollan

#91. Yesterday was the New York City Marathon. Republicans won in a landslide.

David Letterman

#92. I always say if the marathon is a part-time interest, you will only get part-time results.

Bill Rodgers

#93. The marathon is an art; the marathoner is an artist.

Kiyoshi Nakamura

#94. I want to do a movie on sports - like a movie on a racer or a marathon runner - as I feel I'll fit that bill perfectly.

Bipasha Basu

#95. I ran the Boston Marathon out of love. I believe that love is the basis of all meaningful human endeavor. Yet it was a love that was incomplete until it was shared with others.

Bobbi Gibb

#96. Parenting is a marathon, and we have to remember our long-term goal of raising beautiful people who love God and others.

Kristen Welch

#97. I think animation is like running a marathon, and making a movie is like a 100 meter sprint. The question is: are you a marathon man or are you a sprinter? I realized that I was more of a sprinter than a marathon man. With a long, long project, I get bored easily.

Marjane Satrapi

#98. The only thing I find difficult to watch - horror movies - not that I don't like them. Like 'The Shining,' it's one of my favorite movies, but it's terrifying. I feel like I've watched a marathon afterwards.

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

#99. I think I bit off more than I could chew, I thought the marathon would be easier. For the level of condition that I have now, that was without a doubt the hardest physical thing I have ever done.

Lance Armstrong

#100. I do a lot of marathons as training runs. If I'm somewhere and there's a marathon, I'll sign up and just go run it.

Dean Karnazes