Top 100 Quotes About Running Fast: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Running Fast

#1. The key to getting the record is running fast because someone else did not take it too crazy at the beginning, so it leaves me with a lot of energy to close.

Bernard Lagat

#2. One thing is sure: if you want running fast in competition, you must run fast in training. The problem is WHEN and HOW, not IF.

Renato Canova

#3. My legs are not for show! They're for running fast and kicking ass!

Kiiro Yumi

#4. During long, slow distance training, you should think of yourself as a thoroughbred disguised as a plow horse. No need to give yourself away by running fast.

Marty Liquori

#5. I saw you dancing out the ocean
Running fast along the sand
A spirit born of earth and water
Fire flying from your hands

Elton John

#6. My focus in 2010 was on just running fast races. My focus in 2011 was for winning at the World Championships. This year has been a combination of the two so we'll see what kind of time it brings.

David Rudisha

#7. When I'm running fast, I don't feel anything, it's effortless, it's like my feet don't even touch the ground, it's like I'm flying.

Evelyn Ashford

#8. Experience has taught me how important it is to just keep going, focusing on running fast and relaxed. Eventually it passes and the flow returns. It's part of racing.

Frank Shorter

#9. My whole life I have been in a hurry, like running fast after a goal, and now I realize it's nice to sometimes slow down a little bit and enjoy the ride.

Luis Gerardo Mendez

#10. You're a dancer; don't strain, don't force it. Be one with the hurdle, let it happen, relax while running fast.

Renaldo Nehemiah

#11. If you're chasing your dream, you're not running fast enough. Run faster

Puff Daddy

#12. Leading means running fast enough to keep ahead of your people.

S.M. Stirling

#13. Because running fast is more fun than running slow.

Frank Shorter

#14. God determines how fast you're going to run; I can help only with the mechanics.

Bill Bowerman

#15. I always loved running ... it was something you could do by yourself, and under your own power. You could go in any direction, fast or slow as you wanted, fighting the wind if you felt like it, seeking out new sights just on the strength of your feet and the courage of your lungs.

Jesse Owens

#16. Humans are not as unsophisticated as mulch wrigglers, they can see the writing on the wall. Is it any surprise, that among the ones who look outward, the real debate is not over whether to run, but over how far and how fast?

Charles Stross

#17. I meet a lot of readers who first encountered my work in school. And I can only assume there is another group who would run away very fast if they saw me coming, for exactly the same reason. Reading is individual, and not all tastes are alike.

Margaret Atwood

#18. In life you'll face difficulties that postpone some of your dreams. Regardless, life goes fast by reminding us youth is finite and old age is stable. So you mustn't stop dreaming and running while your strength is yet tough.

Darmie Orem

#19. History is running very fast in my country.

Victor Robert Lee

#20. It doesn't matter how fast or how far you're going. If you're putting on your shoes and going out for a run, you are a runner, you are in that club.

Kara Goucher

#21. My philosophy is that all stocks are bad. There are no good stocks unless they go up in price. If they go down instead, you have to cut your losses fast Letting losses run is the most serious mistake made by most investors.

William O'Neil

#22. I'm either sitting very still or running very fast.

Cate Blanchett

#23. The cleaner and nicer the program, the faster it's going to run. And if it doesn't, it'll be easy to make it fast.

Joshua Bloch

#24. Do what you will,
always
Walk where you like,
your steps
Do as you please, I'll
back you up.
I remember thinking
sometimes we walk
sometimes we run away
But I know
no matter how fast we are running
Somehow we keep
Somehow we keep up with each other.

Dave Matthews Band

#25. My goal is not to fail fast. My goal is to succeed over the long run. They are not the same thing.

Marc Andreessen

#26. I got very fit that week with all the running around that we di. I was always last, because I can't run as fast as everyone else. I'm useless at running.

Sarah Sutton

#27. If you run, you are a runner. It doesn't matter how fast or how far. It doesn't matter if today is your first day or if you've been running for twenty years. There is no test to pass, no license to earn, no membership card to get. You just run.

John Bingham

#28. No matter how fast a lie runs, the truth will someday overtake it.

T. B. Joshua

#29. I have two speeds. Fast and faster. I don't just run. I take it.

Arjen Robben

#30. Time fleeth on,
Youth soon is gone,
Naught earthly may abide;
Life seemeth fast,
But may not last
It runs as runs the time.

Charles Godfrey Leland

#31. There's an old adage that for every second too fast per mile in the first half of the race, you'll run at least 2 seconds slower at the end.

Jeff Galloway

#32. Lok was running as fast as he could. His head was down and he carried his thorn bush horizontally for balance and smacked the drifts of vivid buds aside with his free hand.

William Golding

#33. Don't run too fast through life. You only have one.

Bo Jackson

#34. My husband once said he'd never met anybody who walked so fast and ran so slowly. As I said, it's a little hard for me to try new things, and this was me facing a fear that I'd had my whole life. Since I had no experience running, I felt like a failure before I'd even begun.

Jamie Lee Curtis

#35. All I've done is run fast. I don't see why people should make much fuss about that.

Fanny Blankers-Koen

#36. I worked out of desperation. I used to hit fast and run in hopes that people wouldn't realize that I really couldn't do anything.

Betty Hutton

#37. I didn't train all that time just to come here and get it over with as fast as I can

John Bingham

#38. When I grew up Carl Lewis was still running, Maurice Greene was running - he was that figure I see, like Michael Johnson. I really wanted to look up to the fast guys - so those two guys were some of the guys I looked up to.

Tyson Gay

#39. I started running in high school. I found out if you run fast then you can get girls.

Kim Collins

#40. Every quarterback can throw a ball; every running back can run; every receiver is fast; but that mental toughness that you talk about translates into competitiveness.

Tom Brady

#41. The groin. The Earthborn's groin is sensitive." SMASH! "Good. Yes. Tyson found its groin." "Percy needs help?" Tyson called. "I'm good!" "Die!" Polybotes yelled, closing fast. Percy kept running.

Rick Riordan

#42. Having heard Clifford Brown play all those fast runs, I used to really practice Clarke trumpet exercises all day long so that I could play fast. That's all I wanted to do. I was like a child with a toy.

Wynton Marsalis

#43. She says the lesson to learn is that the world is round, which means that if I run too fast I might end up chasing the very homeland I am running from.

Sefi Atta

#44. God often attaches a major weakness to a major strength to keep our egos in check. A limitation can act as a governor to keep us from going too fast and running ahead of God.

Rick Warren

#45. I can run fast when I want to run fast, and I've always been good at destroying things.

James Frey

#46. 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

#47. I had been running as fast as I could for all of my adult life. A person can't listen effectively while running. A running mother is not able to pick up clues. She is not able to let go of her own agenda long enough to stop and listen.

Irene Tomkinson

#48. Carl Lewis wasn't a great sprinter. He could only run fast for like 9 seconds.

Serge Ibaka

#49. Delhi people can make anything look fancy. Delhi scares me with fast pace vehicles and running life, it can almost thrill anyone.

Parul Wadhwa

#50. How fast does a zebra have to run before it looks gray.

Demetri Martin

#51. She was running out of the room as fast as she could, with the sword raised before her. She called back to her father. I'll be back soon. I've just got to save the world.

Karen Foxlee

#52. Some runners judge performance by whether they won or lost. Others define success or failure by how fast they ran. Only you can judge your performance. Avoid letting others sit in judgment of you.

Hal Higdon

#53. I hunt deer because they aren't capable of higher forms of thinking. All they care about is, 'What am I going to eat next, who am I going to screw next, and can I run fast enough to get away'. They are very much like the French in that way.

Ted Nugent

#54. If you're setting up lights and tripods, and you've got three assistants running around, people will want to get you out as fast as they can. But if you go the opposite way, if you make the camera the least important thing in the room, then it's different.

D. A. Pennebaker

#55. I'm so fast I run through a hurricane and not get wet. George Foreman is gonna pay me a dept.

Muhammad Ali

#56. All of the experiments are really cool. Probably one of the better ones is "Running in the Rain." It depends on circumstances: how fast are you running, if there's wind, or any of the other things involved with the circumstances of running in the rain. That's a favorite, I suppose.

Jamie Hyneman

#57. Much like the hands of a clock go nowhere fast, anxious thoughts run us round-and-round without taking us anywhere!

Guy Finley

#58. I was always working. Maybe you weren't aware of the movies I was making, or the television I was doing, or the shows I was creating, or the books I was writing; there have been thirty. But I have always been solidly at work, running as fast as I can.

William Shatner

#59. I just loved the driving part. If I didn't race anybody, it didn't make any difference as long as I could drive. It's just the physical part of getting in the car and being able to go run fast and being able to drive.

Kyle Petty

#60. I am a runner because I run. Not because I run fast. Not because I run far. I am a runner because I say I am. And no one can tell me I'm not.

John Bingham

#61. I train so hard to make sure failure doesn't happen. If I do everything I can, and run as fast as I possibly can and someone still beats me, I don't think of that as failure.

Marion Jones

#62. It's important to run not on the fast track, but on your track. Pretend that you have only six months to live, and make three lists: the things you have to do, want to do, and neither have to do nor want to do. Then, for the rest of your life, forget everything on the third list.

Mike Davies

#63. The secret of my success over the 400m is that I run the first 200m as fast as I can. Then, for the second 200m, with God's help I run faster.

Eric Liddell

#64. Once you succeed in writing the programs for [these] complicated algorithms, they usually run extremely fast. The computer doesn't need to understand the algorithm, its task is only to run the programs.

Robert Tarjan

#65. I'm bout that fast money, money ain't got no patience. But if them boys come run like you on probation.

Nicki Minaj

#66. When you start running from trouble? It confers with the devil on how to find you twice as fast.

Dorothea Benton Frank

#67. If someone from the government tries to put his hands on your money ... run away as fast as you can and tell the nearest conservative.

Andrew Klavan

#68. There was no stopping us now. We had running water, a heater, a cooker and a road. We were fast becoming slaves again to all the things we had come to this benighted spot to flee.

Chris Stewart

#69. It's like one of those dreams you have when someone is chasing you. You're running as fast as you can, and someone's trotting behind you, just out of range, trying to grab onto you.

Michael Chang

#70. Delilah Bard - always a thief, recently a magician, and one day, hopefully, a pirate - was running as fast as she could. Hold

V.E Schwab

#71. If you're watching a parade, don't follow it. It never changes. If the parade is boring, run in the opposite direction. You will fast-forward the parade.

Mitch Hedberg

#72. Take this at least, this last advice, my son:
Keep a stiff rein, and move but gently on:
The coursers of themselves will run too fast,
Your art must be to moderate their haste.

Ovid

#73. Bear hunting? Come on up and we'll fix you up, you betcha. Just be sure you bring some hunting buddies with you, preferably fat ones who can't run as fast as you.

Sarah Palin

#74. 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

#75. You were born to run. Maybe not that fast, maybe not that far, maybe not as efficiently as others. But to get up and move, to fire up that entire energy-producing, oxygen-delivering, bone-strengthening process we call running.

Florence Griffith Joyner

#76. The LA Lakers are so good they could run a fast break with a medicine ball.

Rich Donnelly

#77. The future's too bright to dwell on the past. Life moves fast, run faster.

Frank Iero

#78. In running, it doesn't matter how fast or slow you are relative to anyone else. You set your own pace and you measure your own progress. You can't lose this race because you're not running against anyone else. You're only running against yourself, and as long as you are running, you are winning.

Amby Burfoot

#79. Paper money is made of cotton, and I'm long cotton, by the way. One reason I'm long cotton is because Dr. Bernanke is out there running the printing presses as fast as he can.

Jim Rogers

#80. Cocaine & Gatorade is why I run so damn fast.

Denard Robinson

#81. First of all, "no self" doesn't mean there is no self, haha. So the "no problem" is jumped at a little too fast I'm afraid. Especially in American culture where people tend to be materialistic philosophically. I don't mean running to the mall, but philosophically, you see?

Robert Thurman

#82. You can't rush the miles. No matter how fast I run, the five miles isn't going to be done in the first five minutes.

Robert Herjavec

#83. For the Nugent family, fast food is a running herbivore.

Ted Nugent

#84. Writing screenplays makes me a better musician because it clears my head. After writing a movie, I go running back to music as fast as I can.

Nick Cave

#85. Comedy was the key to everything. I grew up fast and controlled my future by bringing it on faster than it naturally unfolded. I cheated myself out of a childhood but then got a running headstart into adulthood that no one else could keep up with.

Margaret Cho

#86. I vary my days between skiing and snowboarding - I can go fast down pisted runs but still struggle in the bumps on a snowboard.

Mike Tindall

#87. Based on my experience; I would develop fast speed before anything else. Get your young runners so they can run and teach them speed.

Gerry Lindgren

#88. And, when the revolutionary cries that he is fighting for 'freedom', be sure to go running away from him just as fast as you can, for you can be damned certain he's fighting for the freedom to tell you what to do.

Neal Asher

#89. I am doing what I do [athletics] because the fans love it and it's a part of me, it's my personality. I think people come to see you run fast, but they also come to see a show, a performance. They want to see a personality, and that's what I give them.

Usain Bolt

#90. I love writing. I've always been drawn to that and felt a particular joy in it - like the phrase in Chariots of Fire: "God made me fast and when I run I feel his pleasure." God gave me a love of writing and (I knew) to do it I would feel God's pleasure.

Randall Wallace

#91. Rapport? You mean like, You'll run as fast as you can, and I'll throw it as far as I can?

Jeff Kemp

#92. If you lived in Sheffield and were called Sebastian, you had to learn to run fast at a very early stage.

Sebastian Coe

#93. This city runs fast, no one has time to sit with themselves,
No time to look into our pain or see the same despair in everyone else

Eyedea

#94. Running my hands really fast up and down the fretboard ... I mean, anybody can do that. It's the Guitar Olympics, and I can't think of anything more pointless.

The Edge

#95. My anger is ebbing away now, replace with a crazy grief for the stupid, dumb, trysting animal, who was running too fast and didn't look where it was going and still -even after its leg was scissored in the trap- believed it might escape. Stupid, stupid, stupid.

Lauren Oliver