Top 100 Quotes About Runners
#1. The Chip also reduces the damage done by bandits. They still steal drinks and cheers along the course, but no longer scramble the paying runners' results. No entry fee, no Chip, no time or place.
Joe Henderson
#2. runners with very heavy training loads need more carbohydrate than runners with more moderate training loads. The more you train, the more carbs your body uses, and the more carbohydrate your body uses, the more carbs you need to eat to maintain adequate muscle glycogen stores.
Matt Fitzgerald
#3. Runners in shoes that cost more than $95 were more than twice as likely to get hurt as runners in shoes that cost less than $40.
Christopher McDougall
#4. We're not home-and-hearth people. We're the adventurers, the buccaneers, the blockade runners. Without challenge, we're only alive.
Alexander Eliot
#5. ...and lovers of romance novels and dissident rebels and brothers in Christ and druids and shamans and aphrodisiac vendors and scriveners and purveyors of real fake passports and gun-runners and porters and bric-a-brac trades and mining prospectors short on liquid assets and Siamese twins...
Fiston Mwanza Mujila
#6. We (ultra runners) alternate between depression and stupidity.
Don Kardong
#7. I know runners who have suffered a tick bite and ended up with Lyme disease. I'll take an angry moose any day.
Don Kardong
#8. I still bother with runners I call hamburgers. They're never going to run any record times. But they can fulfill their own potential.
Bill Bowerman
#10. Runners don't run with their legs, they run ON their legs. In reality, they run with their Arms!
Percy Cerutty
#11. Masters runners fare best when they designate every third week as a recovery week.
Matt Fitzgerald
#12. Listening to your body does not imply a lack of grit but a willingness to honor true physical limits. Kenyan runners have a reputation for listening to their bodies but certainly do not take it easy on themselves; they are among the world's most gifted and accomplished athletes.
Gina Greenlee
#13. Sometimes, in a tight game with runners on, digging in at short, ready to break with the ball, a peace I'd never felt before would paralyze the diamond. For a moment of eternal stillness I felt as if I were cocked at the very heart of the Midwest.
Stuart Dybek
#14. Runners and yogis are alike in lots of ways, and not just because some of us need yoga to unkink what running jams. Runners and yogis are also alike because of this tortoise shell idea, this 'home' we can access inside ourselves.
Kristin Armstrong
#15. I just do my best to put the ball in play and put it in play where no one's going to make a play on it and hopefully drive some runners in.
Joey Votto
#16. 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
#17. Very many researchers, including the front runners in gallium nitride, abandoned the development of gallium nitride-based devices. I have devoted myself to the study of crystal growth, aiming at the development of the p-n junction of gallium nitride.
Isamu Akasaki
#18. Pardon all runners,
All speechless, alien winds,
All mad waters.
Pardon their impulses,
Their wild attitudes,
Their young flights, their reticence.
When a message has no clothes on
How can it be spoken.
Thomas Merton
#19. I studied Tom Cruise running in all the Mission Impossibles. I think he's one of the best screen runners.
Ben Stiller
#20. Runners aren't impervious to pain, we're just better at choosing what kind of pain we have to feel.
And when I run, that's exactly what I'm doing.
I'm asserting control over the uncontrollable.
I'm housebreaking a tornado.
The Oatmeal
#21. Daddy said the world was dividing into two camps: runners and nesters.
Rick Yancey
#22. The I.S. didn't teach its runners how to deal with this. Runners were runners, not murder investigators. They brought their tags in alive, even the dead ones.
Kim Harrison
#23. Every athlete has doubts. Elite runners in particular are insecure people. You need someone to affirm that what you are doing is right.
Lynn Jennings
#24. The one thing that I really appreciate about being a runner is the incredible friendships and camaraderie that we, as runners, share. Although it will always be a cutthroat competition for every spot on every team, our companionship transcends these competitive rivalries.
Jennifer Rhines
#25. Trust me, my runners aren't going to run one event while looking past it to the second event. When they get on the line for the 10K, that's a do-or-die situation for them.
Alberto Salazar
#26. A blanket could be used to sell ice cream to streakers. Well, it could, if those naked runners didn't leave their wallets in their pants.
Jarod Kintz
#27. Runners are the ultimate celebration people. Running is just so intense, you're really experiencing life to the fullest.
Bill Rodgers
#28. RUNNERS wearing top-of-the-line shoes are 123 percent more likely to get injured than runners in cheap shoes, according to a study led by Bernard Marti, M.D., a preventative-medicine specialist at Switzerland's University of Bern.
Christopher McDougall
#29. The toughest question has always been, "How do you get your ideas?" How do you answer that? It's like asking runners how they run, or singers how they sing. They just do it!
Lynn Johnston
#30. When I go to a web video meeting and look around, at least half the show runners are women. And a lot are actors-cum-writers who are frustrated with the situation of being a woman actor in Hollywood and have decided to create their own show.
Felicia Day
#31. Several of my critics have said, 'Bowerman just tacks up a piece of paper in the locker room and turns his runners loose.' They're partially right. I do give the athletes a relatively free rein and for good reason. One of my principles is? 'Don't overcoach.'
Bill Bowerman
#32. It's what runners do. We keep on keeping on
Amby Burfoot
#33. 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
#34. I didn't know I hit that way (.625 with runners in scoring position). Maybe not knowing is my secret. If I chased numbers, maybe I wouldn't have as good results.
Ichiro Suzuki
#35. On a film set, there are runners who are 19, it's their first job, but to me they're as important as anybody else because if they don't do their job then nobody else can. So I don't think anybody should be treated disrespectfully or as if they're of a lower status.
Jim Carter
#36. It's very hard in the beginning to understand that the whole idea is not
to beat the other runners. Eventually you learn that the competition is
against the little voice inside you that wants you to quit.
George Sheehan
#37. If I run I lose so much weight, which I need because you're limited on weight when you are a tall driver. And have you seen marathon runners? They're quite skinny.
Jenson Button
#38. And, just for good measure, here are a handful of runners up:
For now the seventh summer carries you,
A wanderer, across the lands and waters.
Virgil
#39. People liked you when you almost won, and bought you drinks. "She only just lost" was a much better compliment than "she only just won." Runners-up
Terry Pratchett
#40. No, we always had something to do because I did all the wave runners and jet skis and boats approaching the atolls and stuff like that, so you could do that without showing the actual atoll or the set that you're going towards, but detailing all those guys racing towards it.
David R. Ellis
#41. May the bird of paradise fly up your nose, may an elephant caress you with his toes, may your wife be plagued with runners in her hose.
'Little' Jimmy Dickens
#42. There is an expression among even the most advanced runners that getting your shoes on is the hardest part of any workout
Kathrine Switzer
#43. Most runners run not because they want to live longer, but because they want to live life to the fullest.
Haruki Murakami
#44. First of all, you want umpires to call what they see. In the case of fair or foul, the smartest thing is to call the ball fair. Because if it's called foul and ruled fair, where do we put the runners?
Joe Torre
#45. My brother acquired his first gun when he was very young, from a recently-fled drug dealer's residence. Now, he lived in a rural orange-grove area, and he shot at coyotes who killed his animals and at drug runners who used the groves for transport. Sometimes he joked that he only shot what moved.
Susan Straight
#46. The chairs and tables, decorated with runners of Italian silk, were Disney-movie themed, because Kelly ate, breathed and farted Disney.
Heidi Cullinan
#47. In fact, the bandits steal the drinks and assistance provided along the course. Worse, they cross the finish line and mess up the scoring of legitimate runners.
Joe Henderson
#48. To be honest, today's runners may as well go back to being nude as them Lycra pants they wear don't really hide much, do they? It's plain to see that if Usain Bolt went back to the old ways of running in the nude he would have an advantage getting over the finish line before anyone else. It
Karl Pilkington
#49. We are pathfinders on a mission, Beholders following the Light, Runners gunning for the prize and Fighters remaining focused ... You have been described, do not accept any other description!
Jaachynma N.E. Agu
#50. [We] have sex like Kenyan marathon runners.
Olivia Wilde
#51. While great leaders may be as rare as great runners, great actors, or great painters, everyone has leadership potential, just as everyone has some ability at running, acting, and painting.
Warren G. Bennis
#52. Sooner or later even the fastest runners have to stand and fight.
Stephen King
#53. Everybody and their mother knows you don't train hard on Friday, the day before a race. But a lot of runners will overtrain on Thursday if left on their own. Thursday is the most dangerous day of the week.
Marty Stern
#54. The advice I have for beginners is the same philosophy that I have for runners of all levels of experience and ability
consistency, a sane approach, moderation and making your running an enjoyable, rather than dreaded, part of your life.
Bill Rodgers
#56. I've always felt that long, slow distance produces long, slow runners.
Sebastian Coe
#57. I always tell beginning runners: Train your brain first. It's much more important than your heart or legs.
Amby Burfoot
#58. Beside the road cows are lazily chewing grass. They show zero interest in the runners. They're too busy eating grass to care about all these whimsical people and their nonsensical activities. And for their part the runners don't have the leisure to pay attention to what the cows are up to, either.
Haruki Murakami
#59. With school turning out more runners, jumpers, racers, tinkerers, grabbers, snatchers, fliers, and swimmers instead of examiners, critics, knowers, and imaginative creators, the word 'intellectual,' of course, became the swear word it deserved to be.
Ray Bradbury
#60. Baseball players practice, runners practice, so how can you practice being funny? You get up onstage. You train as an improviser, playing make-believe, using the vernacular of improvisation, saying 'yes and' to other people's ideas, making statements.
Ali Farahnakian
#61. 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
#62. The Kenyans beat up on the American runners in every road race every weekend of the year, but we're way ahead of them in the number and quality of our Elvis impersonators. We get our X-Men and gorillas.
Don Kardong
#63. It is suicidal for other runners to copy my hill sessions without adequate background.
Pekka Vasala
#64. My kids are good athletes and runners. They run in a bunch of sports.
Scott Bakula
#65. With my runners now, they get two month-long breaks during the year.
Alberto Salazar
#66. Thus the sum
Forever is replenished, and we live
As mortals by eternal give and take.
The nations wax, the nations wane away;
In a brief space the generations pass,
And like to runners hand the lamp of life
One unto other.
Lucretius
#67. Many runners worry about who is in the race, or they think about the time they must run to win. I only try to run as fast as I am capable - nothing less.
Henry Rono
#68. Minho looked at Thomas. I nominate this shank to replace me as Keeper of the Runners.
James Dashner
#69. When runners win a big race these days, they get a car. When I won a big race, I got a ride.
Ron Delany
#70. I just imagine all the other runners are big spiders, and then I get super scared,
Usain Bolt
#71. Disciplined runners consistently clear their heads and focus fully on the journey ahead..because their passion and zeal for the goal supersedes the strain. The goal beckons them onward. Passion doesn't negate weariness; it just resolves to press beyond it.
Priscilla Shirer
#72. I own records that have the power to make me cry. Records to be by or with - truly precious possessions. It is the ambition of the Midnight Runners to make records of this value ...
Kevin Rowland
#73. We are paint streaked runners,
deafened by the cries of all the sad people.
It's a powerful sound that practically yanks the tears right out of you.
Sometimes, you just can't help but feel like a
very small
clam in
a very
big ocean.
Taylor Rhodes
#74. Good try, ya bugging shank. The Gathering elects Runners, and if you think I'm tough, they'd laugh in your face.
James Dashner
#75. As runners we all have the same challenges and share the same experience, with the goal to accomplish something and better ourselves.
Wilson Chebet
#76. Racing's very much like the world of acting. You have your front runners and you have guys that are there for the long race, and you have other guys that block for other people, that are called supporting and character actors. It's all the same kind of situation.
Sylvester Stallone
#77. Runners in the western world have a tendency to create psychological barriers for themselves, but Morceli runs at will, with no inhibitions.
Eamonn Coghlan
#78. Runners can be having an absolutely miserable race and yet still be cognizant of the fact that they are undertaking something amazing. I
Cory Reese
#79. Even for runners who never make the transition to more sophisticated workouts, easing into speedwork will lead to more enjoyable running.
Don Kardong
#80. Runners are bouncing up and down at the curb waiting for lights to change. Cops are in coffee shops dealing with bagel deficiencies.
Thomas Pynchon
#81. The only magic in our lives as runners is the magic of consistency. Not every run will make you feel great.
John Bingham
#82. I make people laugh for a living. I believe I can say objectively that what I do I do as well as anybody. Just say I'm one of the best broken field runners that ever lived. For 35 years I was a cult hero, an underground funny.
Mel Brooks
#83. In my opinion, the best setup guys now have a tougher job than the closers. They pitch more innings, inherit more runners.
Goose Gossage
#84. African runners regularly work out in the United States and Europe, and the International Olympic Committee sends some of the cash from the Games to Olympic committees in poor nations, which use the money to finance their own programs.
Alex Berenson
#85. My address book of dealers and private collectors, smugglers and fixers, agents, runners and the peculiar assortment of art hangers-on was longer than anyone else's in the field.
Thomas Hoving
#86. Runners, by nature, are intentional people and normally pretty light on our feet.
Kristin Armstrong
#87. 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
#88. 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
#89. So for front-runners we have a black and a woman. It's like being made to choose between syphilis or having and old man crap on your face. I would do the country a favor and run myself but I couldn't deprive Hollywood of me for 4 years.
Zach Braff
#90. This is what I wanted. They tell me that London is the best field in history. I wanted to be part of that. Because everyone will be there it will be a wonderful challenge for me. You can see the best runners, how they look, how they run. For me to beat the best is what counts.
Haile Gebrselassie
#91. We runners are all a little nutty, but we're good people who just want to enjoy our healthy, primitive challenge. Others may not understand running, but we do, and we cherish it. That's our only message.
John J. Kelley
#92. I am very amazed by the runners out there because I like jog to the garbage can outside sometimes, and I get tired.
Kacy Catanzaro
#93. There are champions in every neighborhood. Anyone can run to the very top. ANYONE! But you have to (a) start right, (b) think right, and (c) believe. Most runners get lost in one or more of those three steps.
Gerry Lindgren
#94. Is beer good for runners? Sure ... if it's the other guy drinking it.
Jim Fixx
#95. Long slow distance makes long slow runners.
Jim Bush
#96. Cold is not without its risks to runners, of course, especially ones who don't head south when winter visits their neighborhood. Even pooh-pooh-ers of frozen lungs and lovers of dark jogs over permafrost have been known to be careful about certain hazards.
Don Kardong
#97. Speedwork is terribly overrated! I remember talking to runners after distance races and someone is sure to say they were able to run fast off base work with no speed work at all. The truth is speedwork doesn't work. Lots of miles, and then fast miles gets you there much quicker than speed work.
Gerry Lindgren
#98. My guess is many top athletes, distance runners included, use performance-enhancing drugs, enough so that the problem must be tackled.
Bill Rodgers
#99. Cheetahs are the fastest runners on earth, and can get up to speeds of around 96 kilometres an hour! It can pick up speed from 0 kilometres an hour to 96 kilometres an hour, within three seconds.
Lilly Carle
#100. All runners are tough. Everyone has to have a little fire in them, that even in tough times, can't be turned off.
Shalane Flanagan
