Quotes About Speed Running

#1. More interest you have more knowledge you have and more knowledge you have more questions you have and more questions means more wisdom you have and you are already inside the vein of life which is running with enormous speed.

Baris Gencel

#2. To be the best, you need to spend hours and hours and hours running, hitting the speed bag, lifting weights and focusing on training.

Sugar Ray Leonard

#3. In the Bible, the race of life is never considered from the viewpoint of speed ... We are to run it with patience.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#4. It is a paradox to say the human body has no 'limit.' There must be a limit to the speed at which men can run. I feel this may be around 3:30 for the mile. However, another paradox remains - if an athlete manages to run 3:30, another runner could be found to marginally improve on that time.

Roger Bannister

#5. One can remain more sure-footed by taking small steps, but perhaps achieve greater speed by taking bigger steps. Of course, one also runs the risk of setting out in a completely erroneous direction. Surely the important thing isn't the length of our steps, but that the objective is clear.

Angela Merkel

#6. At least for soccer players, it comes down to a blend of two types of fitness - your base endurance, which comes from longer distance running, and your speed, which comes from sprint-based workouts.

Heather O'Reilly

#7. If the wind is blowing like stink and everything is working right, a twelve-meter sailboat can go eleven and a half or twelve miles an hour, the same speed at which a bond lawyer runs around the Cental Park Reservoir.

P. J. O'Rourke

#8. Code should run as fast as necessary, but no faster; something important is always traded away to increase speed.

Richard E. Pattis

#9. I could produce spurts of speed and after taking up athletics I found myself running quite quickly over 400m.

Michael East

#10. As I've been able to once again gain the benefits of speed work, I'm enjoying my running more and more.

Frank Shorter

#11. There was a contact between a football player and a cheerleader, male I might add. That male cheerleader clipped me from the side as I was running full speed, or slower than full speed, but generally, in the upper quadrant of speed. And I hit the ground pretty good.

Les Miles

#12. There are times when friendship feels like running down a hill together as fast as you can, jumping over things, spinning around, and you don't care where you're going, and you don't care where you've come from, because all that matters is speed, and the hands holding your hands.

M T Anderson

#13. My faith is the reason I run - it calms my heart and makes everything feel like a lift. My speed is definitely a gift from Him, and I run for His glory. Whatever I do, He allows me to do it.

Allyson Felix

#14. Intervals and other types of speed work are essential to improve running speed.

Frank Shorter

#15. A well-run restaurant is like a winning baseball team. It makes the most of every crew member's talent and takes advantage of every split-second opportunity to speed up service.

David Ogilvy

#16. I found I could also be good in cross country. I don't think my running style has anything to do with it. If you have speed and your body feels good, you can do any distance.

Catherine Ndereba

#17. Move at a snail's pace or walk with the speed of a turtle or run like a rabbit! Just move; forget about the speed and just move ahead!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#18. 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

#19. Speed takes a little bit of getting used to, but rules have to be followed. At any speed, the more you run, the more you get used to it.

Mario Andretti

#20. I believe you'll develop speed via strength work which includes hill running, either repeats, or running hilly courses as the Kenyans do on a steady basis.

Bill Rodgers

#21. No other evil we know is faster than Rumor, thriving on speed and becoming stronger by running. Small and timid at first, then borne on a light air, she flits over ground while hiding her head on a cloud-top.

Virgil

#22. It is true that speed kills. In distance running, it kills anyone who does not have it.

Brooks Johnson

#23. 'Speed' and 'Point Break' were a lot of running and jumping, and then 'The Matrix Trilogy' had a lot of fights and wire work and green screen elements.

Keanu Reeves

#24. By burning through coal and oil deposits, humans are putting carbon back into the air that has been sequestered for tens - in most cases hundreds - of millions of years. In the process, we are running geologic history not only in reverse but at warp speed.

Elizabeth Kolbert

#25. Keep the Feast of the Resurrection. Be a Peter or a John; hasten to the Sepulchre, running together, running against one another, vying in the noble race (cf. Jn. 20:3-4). And even if you be beaten in speed, win the victory of zeal; not looking into the tomb, but going in.

Gregory Of Nazianzus

#26. Team sports aren't my thing. I find it easier to pick something up if I can do it at my own speed. And you don't need a partner to go running, you don't need a particular place, like in tennis, just a pair of trainers.

Haruki Murakami

#27. It's a feeling of ice miles running under your blades, the wind splitting open to let you through, the earth whirling around you at the touch of your toe, and speed lifting you off the ice far from all things that can hold you down.

Sonja Henie

#28. One of the beautiful things about running is that it is direct and elegant. The formula is simple: put one foot in front of the other. It doesn't take much to figure out that if you want to improve sprint speed, you run faster. If you want to improve distance-running performance, you run farther.

Bernd Heinrich

#29. You have this high level of kinetic energy inside you, and sometimes it feels like you can"t stop the hamster from running at full speed and it just won't fall off the wheel even though it's so tired that it could die.

Robert Duff

#30. There's nothing I'm doing to my body that a regular person is not doing to theirs outside of just running into somebody at full speed.

Ray Lewis

#31. I was thinking; my mind was running at top speed, scanning and sorting my options. They ranged all the way from Dumb and Dangerous to Crazy, Evil, and utterly wrong from the start.

Hunter S. Thompson

#32. If your bigs rim run at full speed it not only increases the potential for a quick layup, but opens up court for guards

Fred Hoiberg

#33. Paris rubbed his forehead against his, running his hands through Roan's hair, and said, 'How about we come back here
and exchange notes once we're done with the interviews? Take a long lunch.'

'Only exchange notes?'

'No one said we can't exchange notes in bed.

Andrea Speed

#34. With all the
dizzy galaxies
hot gases
dust at the speed of light
neutrinos running through
everything,
no matter how powerful someone is
here on Earth
they are just as small as me
to the vast greatness of
outer
space.

Thalia Chaltas

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

Arjen Robben

#36. As one of the little streams starts snaking my way, inching closer to the toe of my shoe, I hop over the spreading puddle and out of its reach. I don't look back to see if it's going to follow me. I'm already three blocks away and still gaining speed

M.A. George

#37. We will not conquer our obstacles by running away from them. Speed does not matter, just that we do not stop.

Pittacus Lore

#38. 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

#39. Each day adds a bead
to the ever peevish episodes of frailty,
I try running at an unkempt speed,
returning back like waves into a cruel sea;

Ashfaq Saraf

#40. The main thing was not the speed or distance so much as running every day, without taking a break.

Anonymous

#41. I developed my training routine going into my senior year at Jackson State. I found this sandbank by the Pearl River near my hometown, Columbia, Miss. I laid out a course of 65 yards or so. Sixty-five yards on sand is like 120 on turf, but running on sand helps you make your cuts at full speed.

Walter Payton

#42. He took off for the mysterious end of the canal where, moving the handle with ever-increasing speed, he has been running, insanely, to this day, steadily decreasing his volume in the hope that he may, one day, penetrate and disappear into micro-infinity.

Urmuz

#43. It's not about speed and gold medals. It's about refusing to be stopped.

Amby Burfoot

#44. Everybody seems to think I'm lazy
I don't mind, I think they're crazy.
Running everywhere at such a speed
Till they find there's no need.

John Lennon

#45. The future was getting here faster than I'd expected.

Maggie Stiefvater

#46. Run!" Piper said.
"We are running!" Jason picked up the speed.
"Run better!" Leo shouted.

Rick Riordan

#47. Don't judge your running by your speed.

Amby Burfoot

#48. Slow seems their speed whose thoughts before them run.

William Davenant

#49. I wasn't too good at vaulting, and I didn't have running speed and jumping power.

Mitsuo Tsukahara

#50. Speed is often confused with insight. When I start running earlier than the others, I appear faster.

Johan Cruyff

#51. I definitely run up right, and I've got pretty good speed.

Adrian Peterson

#52. Ever since you were a girl, you've been running for what you wanted ... Now you're lost, but you're still running full speed ... How will you ever figure out what you want when everything is a blur?

Kristin Hannah

#53. 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

#54. If you want to play quicker you can start running faster, but it's the ball that decides the speed of the game.

Johan Cruijff

#55. 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

#56. What is speed? The sports press often confuses speed with insight. See, if I start running slightly earlier than someone else, I seem faster.

Johan Cruijff