Top 100 Quotes About Running The Race
#1. Running the race
Like a mouse in a cage
Getting nowhere but I'm trying
Forging ahead
But I'm stuck in the bed
That I made so I'm lying
A Fine Frenzy
#2. Don't keep running the race of life with the same heavy load of mistakes and indecisiveness! You may grow weary and weary! Mistakes lead to discovery, but not all the time! Mind your mind, and for a moment, realize where you have reach, and drop your loads!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#4. Every second you spend holding someone else back is time not running the race yourself.
Rebecca Murphy
#5. WHEN ASKED, CHARLENE had always explained away her life as a series of false starts that finally had disqualified her from running the race.
Reif Larsen
#6. And each forgets, as he strips and runs With a brilliant, fitful pace, It's the steady, quiet, plodding ones Who win in the lifelong race. And each forgets that his youth has fled, Forgets that his prime is past, Till he stands one day, with a hope that's dead, In the glare of the truth at last.
Robert W. Service
#7. Here Hillary Clinton is probably the most qualified person based on experience to ever run for president of the United States, and then this guy gets into the race, Bernie Sanders, and suddenly everybody goes, "Look at him. He's a real contender - "
Christy Clark
#8. It's amazing how the same pace in practice can feel so much harder than on race day. Stay confident. Trust the process.
Sara Hall
#9. Big occasions and races which have been eagerly anticipated almost to the point of dread, are where great deeds can be accomplished.
Jack Lovelock
#10. Sarah Palin has managed to use her failed vice presidential run to put herself in a position of power and influence. Joe Biden won the race and he hasn't been able to put himself in a position of power and influence.
Craig Ferguson
#11. I wanted to run my race. I didn't want to sit there and play games and see who could kick the hardest. I wanted it to be a race.
Marla Runyan
#12. I can't do the whole run but I am able to start the race and I will be there at the end when winners cross the line.
Fabrice Muamba
#13. Running on different types of racetracks is challenging - not only for the drivers, but even more for the team members who have to make adjustments to the cars before each race.
Michael Andretti
#14. In a long distance race, everyone gets tired. The winner is the runner who figures out where to put the tired, figures out how to store it away until after the race is over. Sure, he's tired. Everyone is. That's not the point. The point is to run.
Seth Godin
#15. Of course with John McCain out of the race, George W. Bush has to pick a running mate. Which is kind of a scary proposition when you think about it. I mean his dad picked Dan Quayle, an he isn't as smart as his dad.
Jay Leno
#16. Straight is the way to Acheron,
Whether the spirit's race is run
From Athens or from Meroe:
Weep not, far from home to die;
The wind doth blow in every sky
That wafts us to that doleful sea.
John Addington Symonds
#17. It has been a wonderful experience to compete in the Olympic Games and to bring home a gold medal. But since I have been a young lad, I have had my eyes on a different prize. You see, each one of us is in a greater race than any I have run in Paris, and this race ends when God gives out the medals.
Eric Liddell
#18. How you run the race - your planning, preparation, practice, and performance - counts for everything. Winning or losing is a by-product, and aftereffect, of that effort.
John Wooden
#19. 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
#20. If you put down a good, solid foundation and build one room after another, pretty soon you have a house. You build in your speedwork, your pace and increase your ability to run races and think races out. Then it's possible to run the way we do.
Rod Dixon
#21. My thoughts before a big race are usually pretty simple. I tell myself: Get out of the blocks, run your race, stay relaxed. If you run your race, you'll win ... channel your energy. Focus.
Carl Lewis
#22. The fastest runners don't always win the race and the greatest heroes don't always win the battles. But just keep running and fighting if that's all you can do. Never lose faith. And one day, you just might attain all that you hoped for and ... more.
Jose N. Harris
#23. 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
#24. In the long run, the world is going to have the best, and any difference in race, religion, or previous history will not keep the world from what it wants.
Booker T. Washington
#25. Every single one of us possesses the strength to attempt something he isn't sure he can accomplish. It can be running a mile, or a 10K race, or 100 miles. It can be changing a career, losing 5 pounds, or telling someone you love her (or him).
Scott Jurek
#26. He who starts behind in the great race of life must forever remain behind or run faster than the man in front.
Benjamin E. Mays
#28. On our track to success, we have to fight the tendency to look at others and see how far they've come. The only thing that counts is how we use the potential we possess and that we run our race to the best of our abilities.
Denis Waitley
#29. Explain to me how he [her son] can ride a bicycle, run, play ball, set up a camp, swing, fight a war, swim and race for eight hours ... and has to be driven to the garbage can.
Erma Bombeck
#30. When the race gets hard to run. It means you just can't take the peace.
Bob Marley
#31. You can neither win nor lose if you don't run the race
David Bowie
#32. The reason we race isn't so much to beat each other, ... but to be with each other.
Christopher McDougall
#33. 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
#34. After shedding only as much clothing as required, I climbed onto his lap and rode him like I was running a race and the finish line was in sight.
Trina M. Lee
#35. The marathon never ceases to be a race of joy, a race of wonder.
Hal Higdon
#36. It was a race he was running now, a race between his rent money and ... he did not know the name of the other contestant. Perhaps it was every man whom he passed on the street.
Ayn Rand
#37. The real purpose of running isn't to win a race, it's to test the limits of the human heart.
Bill Bowerman
#38. I think it went really well. There was part of me that really wanted to go with the rabbit. But, honestly one thing that I struggle with a lot is really just competing ... being in a pack, running with a lot of bodies. I'm 17 and I'm still not really used to it, so the goal today was to just race.
Mary Cain
#39. In the golden lightning Of the sunken sun O'er which clouds are brightening, Thou dost float and run Like an unbodied joy whose race is just begun.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
#40. We follow and race In shifting chase, Over the boundless ocean-space! Who hath beheld when the race begun? Who shall behold it run?
Bayard Taylor
#41. If I performed poorly, I knew the eyes of the sports world would be turned away from me. In that situation I knew the NCAA would crush me for sure. But if I could run well, they would not dare to hit me with everyone looking in my direction. I HAD to have a good race.
Gerry Lindgren
#42. I felt now that all the uncomfortable suspicions I had about myself were coming true, and I couldn't hide the truth much longer. After nineteen years of running after good marks and prizes and grants of one sort and another, I was letting up, slowing down, dropping clean out of the race.
Sylvia Plath
#43. [Scientific testing] can't determine how the mind will tolerate pain in a race. Sometimes, I say, 'Today I can die.'
Gelindo Bordin
#44. I am not a bloody ghoda running a race that you give me a tag. I am competitive, and the reason for that is that I want to do the best films.
Anushka Sharma
#45. I was unable to walk for a whole week after that, so much did the race take out of me. But it was the most pleasant exhaustion I have ever known.
Emil Zatopek
#46. Being an American, what I've noticed is that we're in such a race. You wake up and you realize you're in the middle of a race, and some people are running right by you.
Steven Conrad
#47. I'd rather run a gutsy race, pushing all the way and lose, than run a conservative race only for a win.
Alberto Salazar
#48. Running is not, as it so often seems, only about what you did in your last race or about how many miles you ran last week. It is, in a much more important way, about community, about appreciating all the miles run by other runners, too.
Richard O'Brien
#49. 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
#50. Chris Christie has been saying for a long time he's not interested in running. The media is trying to create a story by sucking Chris Christie into race, just like they made a story by sucking Rick Perry into the race.
Herman Cain
#51. Get going. Get up and walk if you have to, but finish the damned race.
Ron Hill
#52. Every time I ran the mile I was aware of my own weakness, there was some opponent who could give me a hell of a fight, so I never went into a race with a sense of invincibility. I always had that feeling of fragility and nerves which made me run faster.
Roger Bannister
#53. I'm a competitor. I really enjoyed the race more than just going out and running to run.
Shannon Miller
#54. A perfect ride. I fell a bit behind on the slow pace, but everything's good. It's real good. Yes, he ran the race we wanted him to run.
Elvis Trujillo
#55. In trying to teach children a great deal in a short time, they are treated not as though the race they were to run was for life, but simply a three-mile heat.
Horace Mann
#56. Each man is afraid of his neighbor's disapproval - a thing which, to the general run of the human race, is more dreaded than wolves and death.
Mark Twain
#57. I think the president's quite comfortable being the underdog. I think he's happy to run this race from - as if he were behind the whole time.
Robert Gibbs
#58. Hopefully, the drivers will be able to race without running over one another. Anything with a heritage like this racetrack, I would not have messed with it. I would have saved my money.
Mark Martin
#59. Swift was the race, but short the time to run.
John Dryden
#60. When you're busy doing your own stuff it's like running a race. You try not to look over your shoulder to see who else is in the race, you do the best you can.
Gene Simmons
#61. Run your own race. Who cares what others are doing? The only question that matters is 'Am I progressing?'
Robin Sharma
#62. I never stop running. I'm not one of the weenies who drop out just because the electoral college votes. I'm still in the race. I'm an extremely corrupt candidate and I stress that in case anybody in our reading audience is interested in sending me money.
Dave Barry
#63. To make your life a work of art, you must have the material to work with. The race, any race, is just such an experience.
George A. Sheehan
#64. A typical race morning usually starts out looking like a scene from a zombie movie: individuals or pairs of people walking down a deserted street, all headed in the same direction ... Inevitably, regardless of the weather, U2's "Beautiful Day" streams out of loudspeakers.
Sarah Bowen Shea
#65. Yesterday Jerry Springer bowed out of the Ohio Senate race. He said, 'If I can't run the most embarrassing campaign in America, then I'm out of here.'
Craig Kilborn
#66. The metric system was designed to get people to enter charity runs.Do you think you would go run a 3.1 mile race? No, but if somebody says, hey, 5 km. You go, 5km sounds pretty impressive.
Greg Gutfeld
#67. Don't follow the crowd. The crowd doesn't get there. They just run round and around in a crazy race. It never ends.
Frederick Lenz
#68. And now run the race which is set before thee, in the royal way of universal love.
John Wesley
#69. 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
#70. It was a very strange, disappointing race in that no one wanted to take it out. That's why I took the lead. I wanted some people to run the real distance and that was frustrating. So I took the pace around the second lap, which in some ways is suicidal ... but I wanted the pace to be honest.
Marla Runyan
#71. A man should stop his ears against paralyzing terror and run the race that is set before him with a single mind.
Robert Louis Stevenson
#72. Strive to be the best and you may succeed: he may well win the race that runs by himself.
Benjamin Franklin
#73. All the seasons run their race In this quiet resting-place; Peach, and apricot, and fig Here will ripen, and grow big; Here is store and overplus - More had not Alcinous!
Henry Austin Dobson
#74. Concentrate on small segments of your race at a time. For example, rather than obsessing about the distance that remains, simply complete the next mile in good form ... try another, then another, until the race is done.
Jerry Lynch
#75. Explore your limits and get to know yourself. You'll never feel more real than after the hardest workout, the longest run, the toughest week, or the best race of your life. Constantly make your own standards tougher.
Luke Watson
#76. Every member of Congress and every Senator kind of runs their own race with their own message because they don't want to necessarily have dictated from the White House what that message should be.
Christopher Michael Cillizza
#77. The sharpest minds often ruin their lives by overthinking the next step, while the dull win the race with eyes closed.
Bethany Brookbank
#78. There is something about the ritual of the race - putting on the number, lining up, being timed - that brings out the best in us.
Grete Waitz
#79. The Greeks had a race in their Olympic games that was unique. The winner was not the runner who finished first. It was the runner who finished with his torch still lit. I want to run all the way with the flame of my torch still lit for Him.
Joseph Stowell
#80. I am qualified for this position, have a right to run for it, and am in the race.
Reba Hurn
#81. If he's having a good day and running the right race, nobody can beat Frank Shorter at 10,000 meters ... nobody except me.
Steve Prefontaine
#82. Republicans are taking the possibility of [Donald] Trump as nominee seriously enough that the committee that oversees next year's Senate races laid out a confidential seven-page blueprint for candidates on how to run with Trump at the top of the ticket.
Dalia Mogahed
#83. You have to know this: running a 100m race is an intense experience. You have a lot of emotion at the end of the race. It is not easy to control that when you win.
Maurice Greene
#84. The whole world is run on bluff. No race, no nation, no man has any divine right to take advantage of others. Why allow the other fellow to bluff you?
Marcus Garvey
#85. There are few instincts more natural than the body in full motion as it races across a field or through the trees.
Neal Bascomb
#86. The most important thing I learned [from running] is that there is only one runner in this race, and that is me.
George A. Sheehan
#87. The polls show that 10 percent of the public are ready to vote for me even though they don't know I'm running. We hope that figure won't drop when they learn I'm in the race.
Eugene McCarthy
#88. Don't waste your time in the race looking back to see what the other guy is doing. It's not about the other guy. It's about what can you do. You just need to run that race as hard as you can. You need to give it everything you've got, all the time, for yourself.
Oprah Winfrey
#89. I had as many doubts as anyone else. Standing on the starting line, we're all cowards.
Alberto Salazar
#90. The race doesn't always belong to the swift nor the battle to the strong. It belongs rather to those who run the race, who stay the course and who fight the good fight.
Carl Yastrzemski
#91. The Doctor snorted. 'Wimp!' He squared his shoulders and turned towards the fire, grinning. 'Race you.' And he was off, running. Jack hesitated, sighed, swore, and ran after him. Levin and Krylek, Catherine and the villagers stared after them in astonishment. Two dark figures running though fire ...
Justin Richards
#92. It's a little bit silly to pit us all against each other as if we were running a race. Just think about the fact that Richard Burton never won an Oscar.
Julianna Margulies
#93. I have to race because racing is a part of me. But I had to learn to race from a place of joy. Not pain. Not sorrow. Not anger. Not to fix things I can't control. But for a connection with other people. With the wilderness. With myself.
Erin Beresini
#94. When you run a race, you hurt your ability to compete when you turn your head to look at the competition chasing you, you lose a step physically and psychologically. Run the race always stretching to do your best, imitations will come in last, no one can catch an original.
Oprah Winfrey
#95. It's not really about the competition. Your biggest challenge in a race is yourself. You're often racing against time. You're frequently running everything through your mind. You're always competing against preconceived ideas. It's not really the person next to you that you worry about.
Summer Sanders
#96. Sometimes, when I walk out onto the track I think, 'What am I doing here? Why do I put myself through this?' But that's when you really get into your focus ... you focus on the race you are going to run.
Kelly Holmes
#97. When you put yourself on the line in a race and expose yourself to the unknown, you learn things about yourself that are very exciting.
Doris Brown Heritage
#98. When the meal was over we all had a quiet rest in our rooms and I meditated on the race. This is the time when an athlete feels all alone in the big world. Opponents assume tremendous stature. Any runner who denies having fears, nerves or some kind of disposition is a bad athlete, or a liar.
Gordon Pirie
#99. I may not drink an electrolyte beverage during the race. If I am running in an hour, I won't need one. But if you're running an hour-and-a-half to two hours or more, maybe you need a little bit of the electrolytes.
Ryan Hall
#100. Scripture tells us to run with endurance the race that is set before us. As we do, may God hold close those who have been taken from us too soon.
Barack Obama
