Marathoner Quotes

#1. Elite runners are genetically gifted, sure, but without intense training, those gifts are wasted. Their training creates a strong work ethic that leaves humility in its wake. There are no short cuts in marathoning, so anyone who is a marathoner has worked hard.

Jeff Horowitz

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

Kiyoshi Nakamura

#3. Now that I know I'm an Upholder, an Abstainer, a Marathoner, a Finisher, and a Lark, and have spent a lot of time thinking about what is, and isn't, important to me, I'm much better able to shape my habits.

Gretchen Rubin

#4. If you are a really good marathoner, you have to run New York.

Haile Gebrselassie

#5. A well-trained marathoner will select a stride length that is somewhere between 75 and 90 percent of her total height. This means that she has less of a vertical displacement requirement.

Jim Gourley

#6. My brother was a big marathoner. He was a great collegiate runner at Beloit College. He won his conference's races, and he did tons of marathons. I would go out and run with him every once in a while just to hang out with him.

Tate Donovan

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

Al Jarreau

#8. Yes, my dad's a marathoner. He used to do sprint distances and then started marathoning. My mom is an endurance animal. She does three-day events like the Susan G. Komen three-day walk.

Dean Karnazes

#9. The satisfaction I feel from finishing another story is tantamount to, say, crossing the finish line for the career marathoner.

Susan Wingate

#10. I've seen few things more depressing than the end-of-season Giants-Padres series in 2001 in which Barry Bonds hit his 68th homer of the year while a .227-hitting, rapidly fossilizing Rickey Henderson staggered like a delirious marathoner toward 3,000 hits.

Stephen Rodrick

#11. Eyes shows lies.

Toba Beta

#12. There is a tremendous amount of farting in prison.

Charlie Engle

#13. Taking this view, it is possible to see financial markets as a laboratory for testing hypotheses, albeit not strictly scientific ones. The truth is, successful investing is a kind of alchemy.

George Soros

#14. The single greatest lesson the garden teaches is that our relationship to the planet need not be zero-sum, and that as long as the sun still shines and people still can plan and plant, think and do, we can, if we bother to try, find ways to provide for ourselves without diminishing the world.

Michael Pollan

#15. If we are ever to cross the 100-nano barrier in electronics, we need to develop nano structures that let electrons move through, as they do through wires and semiconductors. And these structures must survive in the real world of air, water, boiling temperatures.

Richard Smalley

#16. O mortals, how long will you be heavy-hearted? Life has come down to you, and are you reluctant to ascend and live? But what room is there for you to ascend, you with your high-flown ways and lofty talk? Come down, that you may ascend, ascend even to God ...

Augustine Of Hippo

#17. Man without compassion is the coldest thing ever in this universe!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#18. As long as it's funny, there's no such thing as too far.

Lucy Punch