Top 26 Marathon Runner Sayings
#1. If you don't ever stop singing, your voice stays in shape. It's like the marathon runner. You've got to run, run, run to stay in shape.
Sammy Hagar
#2. Analysis is a glittering opportunity for training: it is just here that capacity for work, perseverence and stamina are cultivated, and these qualities are, in truth, as necessary to a chess player as a marathon runner.
Lev Polugaevsky
#3. Business is a sprint until you find an opportunity, then it's the patience of a marathon runner.
Robert Herjavec
#4. 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
#5. Panting like a marathon runner at mile twenty, overheated bloodhound, steam engine crawling up the Continental Divide.
Dennis Vickers
#6. You breathe nonstop, like a marathon runner, but it doesn't help.
Junot Diaz
#7. To maintain success, stamina is more important than talent. You have to learn to be a marathon runner.
Joan Rivers
#8. I have to change a lot of things before I become a good marathon runner.
Haile Gebrselassie
#9. I am a marathon runner. I ran the New York City marathon and almost died. I tried to run, like, a two-minute mile early on in the race. I was crazy enough to think I could win. After seven miles I thought I would die, but I slowed down my pace and kept going.
Sean Combs
#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. Just as you can't become a marathon runner by watching marathons on TV, likewise for science, you have to go through the thought processes of doing science and not just watch your instructor do it.
Eric Mazur
#12. I wanted you to thank you for being my friend and letting me play a part in your story.
Christopher Pike
#13. When I came to New York in 1978, I was a full-time school teacher and track runner, and determined to retire from competitive running. But winning the New York City Marathon kept me running for another decade.
Grete Waitz
#14. What kind of trees are those?" I asked.
"Heartwood," my father said. "They grow in layers, like the spirit does. That's what Grandpa Sam used to say, anyway. You just got to keep the roots in a clear stream and not let nobody taint the water for you.
James Lee Burke
#15. ... it would even be inexact to say that I thought of those who read it as readers of my book. Because they were not, as I saw it, my readers. More exactly they were readers of themselves, my book being a sort of magnifying glass ... by which I could give them the means to read within themselves.
Marcel Proust
#16. The death is a bearable certainty. If it would only hurry.
Dervis Susic
#18. We're fumbling in the dark, but at least we're in motion.
Isaac Marion
#19. I thought about running a marathon a long time ago, but I'm just not a runner.
Shannon Miller
#20. 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
#22. A runner can never see the finish line in the middle of a marathon,
Henry Cloud
#23. I started running outside when I was at 'Biggest Loser.' Then I got runner's knee, and thought I was never going to be able to shake it. When I overcame that and ran the L.A. Marathon, it was such an amazing thing, and now running is such a part of my routine.
Alison Sweeney
#24. To finish a marathon in less than 4 hours, you should ideally be a runner for a couple of years, have completed a half marathon, or be extremely determined and competitive.
Richard Bond
#25. There is a unique energy surrounding the Boston Marathon that you can't help but feel. It includes every runner and every person along the course. It brings every person there together as one.
Amy Hastings
#26. I like making comics and animation because it takes such a long time. I'm not a runner of the 100 meter. I like marathons. The longer it takes, the better I feel.
Marjane Satrapi
