Quotes About Running Shoes

#1. 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

#2. I was beginning to realize that all the food in the world, and all the running shoes, could not make me happy. The material things were worthless. I had lost my family. I wasn't loved, I wasn't free, and I wasn't safe. I was alive, but everything that made life worth living was gone.

Yeonmi Park

#3. I love Nike's running shoes and clothes because they feel as light as a feather.

Katia Winter

#4. My schedule goes: wake up, running, exercise, downstairs, running shoes off, then to the shower. That's the Jackie Chan diary.

Jackie Chan

#5. Everyone in life has a story to tell, and sometimes there are things in our past we spend our lives running from. This book is dedicated to those who have retired their running shoes and found a piece of happiness they can call home.

Dannika Dark

#6. The best way to get to know the place you are traveling in is to walk around ... and the best way to walk around is with comfortable shoes! Grab your travel buddy and your running shoes and go explore!

Laura Marano

#7. I'm less comfortable in stilettos than I am in running shoes.

Julie Bowen

#8. My sense of style is an old Polo shirt, jeans and, unfortunately for the longest time, white running shoes, which was not attractive. The one thing I've learned about clothes is to ask a girl.

Matthew Perry

#9. I have a dog. He needs to be walked, and I love running, so I pull out my running shoes.

Kim Raver

#10. A runner needs not just to be skinny but - more specifically - to have skinny calves and ankles, because every extra pound carried on your extremities costs more than a pound carried on your torso. That's why shaving even a few ounces off a pair of running shoes can have a significant effect.

Malcolm Gladwell

#11. My brain is built of paths and slides and ladders and lasers and i have invited all of you to enter its pavilion. my brain, as you enter, will smell of tangerines and brand-new running shoes.

Douglas Coupland

#12. Presents? Cake? I could use a new bat, maybe some good work boots or running shoes.

Patricia Hamill

#13. Track coach Bill Bowerman decided that his team needed better, lighter running shoes. So he went out to his workshop and poured rubber into the family waffle iron. That's how Nike's famous waffle sole was born.

Jason Fried

#14. surfing, writing, composing, and programming deep into the night, like it's the early 1980s with the hue of poison-green CRT illuminating the room, Nike running shoes on the floor, hair metal poster on the door, and everything is infinite, made of fibre optics and floppy disks . . .

Mike Walker

#15. I do enjoy wearing Japanese and Italian clothing. I also enjoy my blue jeans or tennis shorts and running shoes. I like driving a Porsche because it is an elegant machine and it is a very beautiful experience to drive it. It's magnificently made.

Frederick Lenz

#16. As long as I get those running shoes on, then there's no turning back, and I have to go for that run. As long as you've got those workout clothes, you've got them on, you've got to go.

Kim Raver

#17. Men over 60 often think that if they wear athletic shoes - soft-soled referee shoes or hiking shoes or actual running shoes - then they will look more youthful. The contrary is true.

Russell Smith

#18. Sometimes, falling back on or using an old method or habit, is like sliding into a pair of worn running shoes and a corset. Doesn't make sense to others, but it's not for them. It's what keeps you together, what keeps you going.

Alyse M. Gardner

#19. Every day you've got running shoes on, it's a good day.

Sean Astin

#20. I have always liked running, so it wasn't particularly difficult to make it a habit. All you need is a pair of running shoes and you can do it anywhere. It does not require anybody to do it with, and so I found the sport perfectly fits me as a person who tends to be independent and individualistic.

Haruki Murakami

#21. I believe in gradual experimentation with running shoes.

Bill Rodgers

#22. What it means is that you have the power to change your brain. All you have to do is lace up your running shoes.

John J. Ratey

#23. Coming from a farming background, I saw nothing out of the ordinary in running barefoot, although it seemed to startle the rest of the athletics world. I have always enjoyed going barefoot and when I was growing up I seldom wore shoes, even when I went into town.

Zola Budd

#24. I'm always like, 'I can't believe I sound like my mother.' I remember running out of the house telling, 'Put your shoes on or you're going to get sick!' That's an old wives' tale, but it's like some weird mind control that I would be like that.

Eileen Davidson

#25. Running is a simple activity. Just lace up your shoes and go, one step at a time, like each breath.

Adharanand Finn

#26. 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

#27. A black face, run-down shoes and elbow-out make-up give me a place to hide. The real Bert Williams is crouched deep down inside the coon who sings the songs and tells the stories.

Bert Williams

#28. As the wind continued to howl and groan through her decaying body, she began to sing her story.

Ken Liu

#29. Whether a woman's running for office or she's supporting her husband who's running for office and she gets criticised for wearing open-toed shoes or for the colour of her coat, there's just a lot of history that you bear if you are a woman who puts herself out in the political arena.

Hillary Clinton

#30. The 'Tarahumara' use their legs 'as designed.' By running at a young age with minimal footwear, they naturally develop the best biomechanical use of their legs. Cushioned shoes restrict foot movements and allow for over-striding. Short strides are natural.

Christopher McDougall

#31. No one runs fast without an extreme amount of training. Like today, you see kids walking around dribbling a basketball. I had a bag with track shoes in it, and I used to go to the track every day.

Edwin Moses

#32. It wasn't easy once I started running 20th Century Fox. There were a lot of eyebrows raised, and it wasn't easy, that transition, because, you know, I had big shoes to fill and I was very young, 27.

Richard D. Zanuck

#33. Buy all shoes, both street and running, slightly longer and wider than your bigger foot. Also, avoid pointed shoes. You'll save yourself needless foot pain.

Ted Corbitt

#34. You don't need anything but your own two legs to run. You don't even need shoes, according to some people.

Marc Parent

#35. Always, in all circumstances, wear comfortable shoes. You never know when you may have to run for your life.

Callie Khouri

#36. It's as if women are in a totally rigged race. A lot of men are driving souped-up, low-slung racing cars and we're running as fast as we can in tennis shoes we managed to salvage from a local garage sale.

Naomi Weisstein

#37. What do you wear on a running machine? I can't bring myself to wear flat shoes.

Victoria Beckham

#38. As foreign as it would be for you to go running in regular shoes, I want it to be just as foreign for you not to work out in your Under Armour.

Kevin Plank

#39. Your shoes are only as good as the laces they're attached to.

Greg Sampson

#40. I try to run every time I'm in a new city or country - you just put your shoes on and go. It's very therapeutic, and it also works for me when I want to lose weight.

Eva Longoria

#41. Running is something you just do. You don't need a goal. You don't need a race. You don't need the hype of a so-called fitness craze. All you need is a cheap pair of shoes and some time; the rest will follow.

Ted Corbitt

#42. When I run barefoot, I put my shoes on my hands. Running around with shoe-hands looks a little weird.

Danny Pudi

#43. If you run a thousand miles a minute, you can expect to wear out a few pairs of shoes.

Ellis

#44. 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

#45. We were encouraged to propose safetyprevention suggestions, and write them all down - locking doors, walking or exercising with a friend, wearing shoes that don't hinder running. Erin's suggestion of "Avoid assholes" was popular.

Tammara Webber

#46. We've created an unnatural form of running. It's not just the shoes, but we run on artificial surfaces - straight ahead, hard and steady - instead of speeding up and slowing down, reacting to the terrain with changes of pace and rhythm.

Christopher McDougall

#47. Chase rushed after her in pursuit. The woman lost one of her high-heeled shoes and Chase took advantage of her lack of balance to tackle her. They crashed to the ground.
"Why are you running from the ball, Cinderella?" he asked.

Stefania Mattana

#48. Why do some bald guys grow ponytails? It it the same reason people too old to run always wear track shoes and sweat pants?

Dana Gould

#49. I love the simplicity and freedom of running. A pair of shoes, and you are all set to explore new trails.

Rachel Boston

#50. Stepping outside the comfort zone is the price I pay to find out how good I can be. If I planned on backing off every time running got difficult I would hang up my shoes and take up knitting.

Desiree Linden

#51. My dance shoes. I reached the water's edge and I felt the terrible despair of someone who is used to running because that is what she had always done, and now she faces a brick wall

Rachel Joyce

#52. I believe in keeping running simple and, in regard to shoes, that would mean no gimmicks, unnecessary cushioning, etc.

Bill Rodgers

#53. I tried to walk a mile in a man's shoes once. I ended up running most of the way!! Seems he wanted them back..

Neil Leckman

#54. Take them shoes of your teeth and quit running your mouth

Lil' Wayne

#55. Ahh ... maybe we should be going," Shane said. "Ditch the shoes, Eve. We'll be running now."
"I love these shoes!"
"More than your circulatory system?"
Eve silently kicked off the stilettos and backed up.

Rachel Caine

#56. If you weren't there, how do you know someone pushed her?" Sergeant Kenn asked.
"Well ... ," said Jared.
"And what were you doing, running through a strange town at night?"
"I was jogging?" Jared offered.
"Without your shirt or your shoes?"
"Uh," said Jared.

Sarah Rees Brennan

#57. Fluttershyes are like regular shyes, only shinier, and, apparently - also shyer. Whenever petted - they don't flutter, but run away instead.

Will Advise

#58. In the gathering gloom only his white Nike headband and his white Nike shoes and the white stripe down the side of his dark Nike running suit were visible, as though there were no man at all among the trademarks.

Thomas Harris

#59. Take dem shoes off your teeth and stop running your mouth.

Lil' Wayne

#60. But be careful; sand is already broken but glass breaks. The shoes are for dancing, not running away.

Francesca Lia Block

#61. While the truth is putting on its shoes, the lie becomes a champion of a long-distance running.

Ljupka Cvetanova