Top 100 Quotes About Marathon Running
#1. One of the great discoveries of marathon running for the masses is that you run against no one but yourself.
Phil Hewitt
#2. Marathon running, for me, was the most controlled test of mettle that I could ever think of. It's you against Darwin.
Ryan Reynolds
#3. You don't need cocaine! There's another way to get real high, and really mess your mind up, it's called marathon running!
Robin Williams
#4. Marathon running is a terrible experience: monotonous, heavy, and exhausting.
Veikko Karvonen
#5. I wanted to try marathon running, but something always came up: I had a baby and a C-section or I got injured or I just didn't think I could run that far.
Veronica Webb
#6. 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
#7. Living life is like running a marathon. It takes a lot of courage and tenacity to keep going till the end.
Fauja Singh
#8. You have to forget your last marathon before you try another. Your mind can't know what's coming.
Frank Shorter
#9. 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
#10. Playing a three-hour Rush show is like running a marathon while solving equations.
Neil Peart
#11. I pulled a hamstring during the New York City Marathon. An hour into the race, I jumped off the couch ...
David Letterman
#12. 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
#13. 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
#14. 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
#15. 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
#16. 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
#17. If you are losing faith in human nature, go out and watch a marathon.
Kathrine Switzer
#18. 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
#19. 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
#20. I thought about running a marathon a long time ago, but I'm just not a runner.
Shannon Miller
#21. Financial winners don't run sprints, they run marathons. They don't rush. They do it step by step over time.
Dave Ramsey
#22. 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
#23. 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
#24. 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
#25. 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
#26. 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
#27. No drugs here, no manipulation of neurotransmitters that leaves our worldly problems unattended. And no talking cures because explicit insight is not needed. All that is required is courage: the courage to encounter discomfort and stay with it long enough to be changed by it, strengthened.
Jason Dias
#28. If you're ninety-five percent of the way to outstanding success, doesn't it make sense to go the additional five percent of the way? ... A marathon which takes hours to run, can be won or lost by a matter of seconds.
Ralph Marston
#29. Marathons are about tenacity as much as talent.
John Bingham
#30. Body follows mind. If the mind compares itself to others this could lead to overtraining. Tune out what other runners do and how fast they run. Tune in, instead, to how your body wants to increase speed and distance.
Gina Greenlee
#31. 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
#32. Wounded Warriors tell me they're not just going to walk again, they're going to run, and they're going to run marathons!
Michelle Obama
#34. 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
#35. Few things in life match the thrill of a marathon.
Fred Lebow
#36. If an athlete takes a shortcut - literally, for example, by running a street that shortens the marathon route by a quarter mile - he or she doesn't have an insurmountable advantage. But it's an unfair advantage, and in a field of equally matched athletes, it's more than enough to make a difference.
Don Kardong
#37. It's probably the toughest distance race in the world to win. World class runners from 1500m to the marathon contest it and instead of just three runners from each country, like in the Olympics or World Championships, in the senior men's race there are nine.
Paul Tergat
#38. I am happy that I ran the half-marathon, but to me, just running and saying that I finished a race isn't enough for me. I want to run the race as best as I can. Working out for pants size isn't enough. I need a goal or a race to get back on the treadmill every day.
Drew Carey
#39. 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
#40. I would sooner be prime minister of the moon than run another marathon. I've been really lucky. I didn't have any toenails fall off or anything disgusting like that. I still have all three nipples.
Ryan Reynolds
#41. In some respects, progressing through life is like running a marathon.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
#42. 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
#44. Life is a marathon, not a sprint; pace yourself accordingly.
Amby Burfoot
#45. Best wishes for a great marathon. Be sure to savor it. The first marathon is something special. Run long and healthy.
Amby Burfoot
#47. The long run is the single most important ingredient to marathon success.
Bob Glover
#48. It's not easy to run a marathon, I know it will be painful but when I start it, I know I'm going to finish it
Fauja Singh
#49. There is the truth about the marathon and very few of you have written the truth. Even if I explain to you, you'll never understand it, you're outside of it.
Douglas Wakiihuri
#50. In an era when man can no longer dash out of his cave and slay a mammoth, he simply slips on his Lycra and goes for a run.
Phil Hewitt
#51. 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
#52. 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
#53. Sometimes for me not throwing a tantrum is what running a marathon or swimming the English Channel must be like for others of a less-challenging emotional nature ...
Roseanne Barr
#54. But I also realize that winning doesn't always mean getting first place; it means getting the best out of yourself.
Meb Keflezighi
#55. This is your first marathon. Possibly, you'll want it to be your last. Focus on future races draws energy from the one in front of you. Like the mileage that comprises them, train for marathons one at a time.
Gina Greenlee
#56. When I make a live-action movie, it's a very physical process. It's like running a marathon.
Zack Snyder
#57. 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
#58. The world is full of people who have dreams of playing at Carnegie Hall, of running a marathon, and of owning their own business. The difference between the people who make it across the finish line and everyone else is one simple thing: an action plan.
John Tesh
#59. Training is essential for almost any significant endeavor in life - running a marathon, becoming a surgeon, learning how to play the piano.
John Ortberg
#60. I don't have great running technique, but I like to run. I've heard from countless people that the last six miles of the marathon is all mental. But what better city to have this in than New York City where there are millions of people there supporting you?
Apolo Ohno
#61. The key to running a good marathon is to not listen to anyone's advice the last week before the race. That's when people tend to do stupid things that disrupt all the input and training of the previous months.
Don Kardong
#62. Anybody who is running a marathon or doing a walkathon, doing a fundraiser for their school, their company, by far it's guaranteed the easiest and most fun way to quickly set up a fundraising campaign and send it around to your friends and family.
Edward Norton
#63. Running a marathon is something I've always wanted to do.
Jennie Finch
#64. The marathon will humble you. But the truth is, sometimes it will do more than humble you. Sometimes it will break your heart.
Bill Rodgers
#65. When you run a marathon, you mean it. We're built for running. We dream of flying. For now, though, we're built to run.
Benjamin Cheever
#66. Falling apart in a 5K is painful, but it's just pain. Falling apart in a marathon, I believe you lose a year of your life. You complete the marathon feeling utterly defeated, knowing that it got the best of you, and you go home and ask your mom if she still loves you.
Jacob Frey
#67. Friedrich Nietzsche got pretty hung up on the notion of human will; really all he needed were some running shoes, Lycra and a place in the Berlin Marathon.
Phil Hewitt
#69. What's at the core of your desire to run a marathon? Couple this journey with value beyond miles. The meaning you ascribe to your effort crystalizes your motivation and fuels your commitment to stay the course and go the distance.
Gina Greenlee
#70. You plant a garden one flower at a time ... You write a book one word at a time, clean a closet one shelf at a time, run a marathon one step at a time. If you feel defeated by some large task, get your spade and dig the first hole.
Jeanne Marie Laskas
#71. I definitely want to show how beautiful the marathon can be. I am the opponent of all those who find the marathon bad: the psychologists, the physiologists, the doubters. I make the marathon beautiful for myself and for others. That's why I'm here.
Uta Pippig
#72. My husband and I both have our bucket lists. Running a marathon was on mine.
Alison Sweeney
#73. Finish: Even if you run a slower than expected time, you succeed in any marathon when you finish.
Hal Higdon
#74. The marathon is a charismatic event. It has everything. It has drama. It has competition. Every jogger can't dream of being an Olympic champion, but he can dream of finishing a marathon.
Fred Lebow
#75. Running for office is similar to being a trial lawyer in a very long trial. It requires adrenaline and stamina; it requires being in shape mentally and emotionally. It's a marathon.
Kamala Harris
#76. Like the marathon, life can sometimes be difficult, challenging and present obstacles, however if you believe in your dreams and never ever give up, things will turn out for the best.
Meb Keflezighi
#77. Success breeds success on a marathon route. If you can prove to yourself that you are doing well, then invariably you will do even better.
Phil Hewitt
#78. Remember, it's the pace that kills, never the distance.
Bill Jones
#79. Doing the long endurance stuff seems to have given me the strength to sustain the speed. I think my body is just a lot stronger (thanks to the marathon) ... By increasing the long runs, I found that does not take anything away from the speed but increases the strength on the track.
Paula Radcliffe
#80. The operation goes on and on. I'm exhausted by it. I don't know how the doctors have the stamina to keep up. They're standing still, but it seems harder than running a marathon.
Gayle Forman
#81. The biggest thing that I've learned is to run the marathon, not the sprint. By that I mean, don't let the little problems that you face in the hour in daily life cast a shadow over the larger joys that you have, over the course of the years.
Jon Foreman
#82. The music for 'The Last Five Years' is like running a 26-mile marathon, and singing Sondheim is like ballroom-dancing up Everest.
Anna Kendrick
#83. When you get close to race day, there's that anticipation and excitement - it's the same whatever level you're running at because the marathon is like a festival.
Paula Radcliffe
#84. The difference between the mile and the marathon is the difference between burning your fingers with a match and being slowly roasted over hot coals.
Hal Higdon
#85. Motivation remains key to the marathon: the motivation to begin; the motivation to continue; the motivation never to quit.
Hal Higdon
#86. I love my lifestyle now, but at the end of nine months, you're toast. You are toast. It's like running a marathon. You can't think while you're doing it. Especially when different directors come in who are not part of the posse, the circle.
Christopher Meloni
#87. The pride in finishing a marathon is much greater than all the pain endured during the marathon.
Hal Higdon
#88. When using the run-walk method to finish a marathon, the most important walk break comes in the first mile. The second most important one comes in the second mile, and so on. The point is, walk before you become fatigued.
Jeff Galloway
#89. I've been running a full marathon every year for more than 20 years, and my record is getting worse. Getting older, getting worse. It's natural.
Haruki Murakami
#90. Aiming for the marathon is a task of sorts which can include terrific highs and lows.
Bill Rodgers
#91. Stadiums are for spectators. We runners have Nature, and that is much better.
Juha Vaatainen
#92. You can actually suffer a little bit more going slowly than when you're going really fast. A faster marathon might even be easier than a slow one, in terms of what it takes out of you mentally.
Frank Shorter
#93. Marathon training doesn't have to be a grind. By running for about 30 minutes two times a week, and by gradually increasing the length of a third weekly run-the long run-anyone can finish a marathon.
Jeff Galloway
#94. Most people have this perception that you have to be out there running for an hour and a half every day. But you don't have to give up your career and family to run a marathon.
Jeff Galloway
#95. Running a marathon with a backpack is tough and may hinder you from winning the race. Don't let the baggage from your past - heavy with fear, guilt, and anger - slow you down.
Maddy Malhotra
#97. When I go to the Boston Marathon now, I have wet shoulders - women fall into my arms crying. They're weeping for joy because running has changed their lives. They feel they can do anything.
Kathrine Switzer
#98. Writing is like running a marathon. One needs stamina and perseverance. The right preparation and pacing get results.
K.J. Kilton
#99. Running a marathon is just like reading a good book. After a while you're just not conscious of the physical act of reading.
Frank Shorter
#100. The marathon never ceases to be a race of joy, a race of wonder.
Hal Higdon
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