Top 100 Runner Quotes
#1. But don't I deserve to be someone's first choice for a change?' All his life, in every life he'd lived, Orion had been the runner-up to someone else.
Josephine Angelini
#2. I was a runner who happened to be a Christian. I needed to become a Christian who happened to be a runner.
Ryan Hall
#3. I'm an athlete, but I'm not a runner. I'm 5-foot-8 and stocky - not exactly a runner's type.
Andrew Lawrence
#4. We all have hierarchies at work - even on set, the runner would never walk up to the director and ask for a cup of coffee.
Laura Carmichael
#5. The true runner comes to the finish and receives the prize and is crowned.
Plato
#6. Every runner has a specific motivation and inspiration for running a marathon. This year, all 36,000 of us will 'run together' to demonstrate the spirit of the marathon. We will still have our individual motivations, but we will be unified under the Boston Strong umbrella.
Meb Keflezighi
#7. For me, 'The Kite Runner' became about a guy who's emotionally shut down because he hasn't confronted his past.
Marc Forster
#8. 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
#9. I have to change a lot of things before I become a good marathon runner.
Haile Gebrselassie
#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. There were moments in life, Marion thought, when you reached back, baton in hand, feeling the runner behind you. Felt the clasp of their fingers resonating through the wood, the release of your hand, which then flew forward, empty, into the space ahead of you.
Erica Bauermeister
#12. He is just a running boy, a half-seen figure from the streets, but the way running reveals some clue to being, the way a runner bares himself to consciousness, this is how the dark-skinned kid seems to open to the world, how the bloodrush of a dozen strides brings him into eloquence.
Don DeLillo
#13. When I got sober and started working out, I fell into that trap of working out too much. I know a lot of guys can relate to that - if you don't get that runner's high every day, you feel like, 'Oh my God, I'm losing it.'
Joe Perry
#14. Some might say that it's easier to be the runner than the runner's family.
Robert De Castella
#15. I could talk about Blade Runner forever.
Brion James
#16. James Dashner is the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling Maze Runner series as well as the Mortality Doctrine series, the 13th Reality series, and two books in the Infinity Ring series:
James Dashner
#17. I thought about running a marathon a long time ago, but I'm just not a runner.
Shannon Miller
#18. For every finish-line tape a runner breaks
complete with the cheers of the crowd and the clicking of hundreds of cameras
there are the hours of hard and often lonely work that rarely gets talked about.
Grete Waitz
#19. My dad was a big runner. Growing up, I watched him do half marathons, and he was always running six or seven miles.
Natalie Morales
#20. I swear it upon Zeus an outstanding runner cannot be the equal of an average wrestler.
Socrates
#21. Bruce ate a mouthful of eggs and meditated. 'I wonder how many of the great heroes of history would turn out to be a slow runner, if you ever investigated the circumstances.
Barbara Michaels
#22. My brother Robert wanted to act from a very early age, and there was always a part of me that said we couldn't have two actors in the family because our parents would go mental. So I became a runner for the Robert Stigwood Organisation and, one way or another, worked my way up to movie publicist.
Philip Glenister
#23. Being a runner, professional or recreational, means that you are part of a community that stretches across the globe.
Lanni Marchant
#24. Many years ago, when I lived in the mini-Siberia they call East Anglia, I was awakened in the early hours by the sound of a pantechnicon being loaded. Peeping through the curtains, I observed the grocer doing a runner with all his chattels and his family.
Clive Sinclair
#25. I am a distance runner, a marathoner ... literally and figuratively.
Al Jarreau
#26. To maintain success, stamina is more important than talent. You have to learn to be a marathon runner.
Joan Rivers
#27. To be a runner is to learn continual life lessons.
Martin Dugard
#28. There is no such thing as an average runner. We are all above average.
Hal Higdon
#29. My brother was a big marathoner. He was a great collegiate runner at Beloit College. He won his conference's races, and he did tons of marathons. I would go out and run with him every once in a while just to hang out with him.
Tate Donovan
#30. The beginning of my political career was not promising. I ran for junior class president at Shortridge High school and was runner up. I ran again in the senior year with the same result. But opportunity came ironically, or fortunately, when I returned to Indianapolis after serving in the Navy.
Richard Lugar
#31. I remember that famous line from Olympic runner Eric Liddell. People asked him why he ran and he said, 'When I run, I feel His pleasure.' When I lay my hands on the keyboard, that is exactly how I feel, I feel God's pleasure. It is what he made me to do.
Dave Sterrett
#32. We were quiet for a while, and then I said, "I think my favorite part of Antarctica is just looking out." You know why?" Dad asked. "When your eyes are softly focused on the horizon for sustained periods, your brain releases endorphins. It's the same as a runner's high.
Maria Semple
#33. The number one Runner rule: Never. Stop. Running
James Dashner
#34. Jordan, the shy Runner with the copper braids, asks me twice if I'm okay. I just shrug her off. Yeah, something's wrong. Isn't that the understatement of the year.
Marie Lu
#35. Considering that the race is star-studded no runner will be willing to set the pace for the others. This is why a record will be almost impossible.
Haile Gebrselassie
#36. 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
#37. Just out of curiosity, what were the boy names?" Grace hedges, clearly fighting a smile. He cheers up again. "Well, the top contender was Garrett." I snicker loud enough to rattle Sabrina's water glass. "Uh-huh," I say, playing along. "And what was the runner-up?" "Graham.
Elle Kennedy
#38. I'm an avid runner and play soccer every weekend, but I also have to constantly watch what I eat, and I'm always thinking about how to balance my meals.
Marcus Samuelsson
#40. I like the old-school Warner Bros. Looney Tunes cartoons. I'm talking Wile E. Coyote, Road Runner, Bugs Bunny and Marvin the Martian!
Colin Kaepernick
#41. The set for 'Blade Runner' was maybe the hardest set I've ever worked on because I think we worked 50 nights in a row, and it was always raining.
Harrison Ford
#42. The runner who is in peak condition is only a razor's edge from catastrophe.
George Sheehan
#43. Presidential Democratic front-runner Howard Dean admitted to Chris Matthews on the 'Hardball' show that he got out of the draft because of a bad back. He had a curvature of the spine. Apparently it curved too far to the left.
Jay Leno
#44. I've never been a politician, but , I am totally committed to the Republican Party. I feel very honored to be the front runner.
Donald Trump
#45. I'm a really fast runner. No one can catch me - I'm quick.
Liam Hemsworth
#46. I'm a keen runner, so I try to fit in a half hour every other day.
Olly Murs
#47. Once, I got slaughtered after 'Blade Runner' by Pauline Kael: three pages of slaughter. I was so offended, I would never read any more press.
Ridley Scott
#48. For the novice runner, I'd say to give yourself at least 2 months of consistently running several times a week at a conversational pace before deciding whether you want to stick with it. Consistency is the most important aspect of training at this point.
Frank Shorter
#49. Does college pay? They do if you are a good open-field runner.
Will Rogers
#50. I said last week that the number on Jean's back does not matter. He stays effective as a runner, decision-maker and leader.
Allister Coetzee
#51. I'm not a wushu champion. I was an athlete when I was a kid. I was a swimmer and a runner, but all this action stuff is such a challenge. It really, really is.
Maggie Q
#52. I was born to be a runner. I simply love to run. It's almost like the faster I go, the easier it becomes.
Mary Decker
#53. Being a runner means you are now 'free' to win and lose and live life to its fullest.
Bill Rodgers
#54. 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
#55. Every day gives you an opportunity to improve. With every run, you can try to be better. Not just a better runner, but a better person.
John Bingham
#56. When your eyes are softly focused on the horizon for sustained periods, your brain releases endorphins. It's the same as a runner's high. These days, we spend our lives staring at screens twelve inches in front of us.
Maria Semple
#57. Wherever you are, be all there. I have lived the runner, panting ahead in worry, pounding back in regrets, terrified to live in the present, because here-time asks me to do the hardest of all: just open wide and receive.
Ann Voskamp
#58. I've never known a runner who had as much patience as he needed.
Amby Burfoot
#59. The true but rare runner's high is a zone that we enter when everything seems to click perfectly, when time stands still, and when we can run almost without effort.
Amby Burfoot
#60. The winter night blew in with frosty wind, and the street lamps with their sputtering carbons swung restlessly and made the shadows dart back and forth like a runner trying to steal second base.
John Steinbeck
#61. 'Blade Runner' was one of several dystopian science-fiction films to tank in the early and middle '80s. 'Tron,' 'The Dark Crystal,' 'The Keep,' 'Labyrinth': none found a large audience.
Richard Corliss
#62. Well, maybe that was fate. Maybe she was meant to be alone. She was a runner, and wasn't that the habit of a person who preferred to be on her own?
Alice Hoffman
#63. I am a runner. That's what I do. That's who I am. Running is all I know, or want, or care about.
Wendelin Van Draanen
#64. The experience of writing 'The Kite Runner' is one I will always think back on with fondness. There is an energy, a romance in writing the first novel that can never be duplicated again.
Khaled Hosseini
#65. You have an advantage if you win. I always think it's best to be remembered as a winner rather than as the runner-up. It's definitely more fun getting the gold than it is the silver.
Simon Cowell
#66. You really can't say enough about 'Blade Runner.' For that movie to have such a long life - you can't describe what a beautiful feeling that is. Initially, the movie was out of theaters in something like two weeks. But the people that wanted it back - the fans - they really saved it.
Rutger Hauer
#67. I've had some experience in track and field in school, but I did have to train to be able to play Jesse Owens - to be a runner, to be an Olympian.
Stephan James
#68. The hardest step for a runner to take is the first one out the door.
Ron Clarke
#69. A question, doctor," he said. "Why doesn't the coyote take the money he spends on bird costumes and catapults and radioactive road runner food pellets and explosive missiles and simply go eat Chinese?" He smiled coolly. "Why doesn't the coyote simply go eat Chinese food?
David Foster Wallace
#70. Being a lifelong runner, knowing what running gives me, a variety of factors - that is what motivates me.
Bill Rodgers
#71. When I first started working on 'Staying Dead,' I got some well-meaning but negative feedback from industry folk because - back in 2001 - epic fantasy was still the big thing, alternate history a tight runner-up.
Laura Anne Gilman
#72. To paraphrase Lorne Michaels (my countryman), it's the kind of place where they award Miss Canada to the runner-up, because the prettiest already gets to be prettiest.
David Rakoff
#73. I became a great runner because if you're a kid in Leeds and your name is Sebastian you've got to become a great runner.
Sebastian Coe
#74. In the big city, if the man next door happens to be a slum landlord, a Mafia bag man, or a long distance runner, what does it matter, as long as he puts his garbage out on Tuesdays?
Hal Higdon
#75. Light is everything in the world to men's eyes Light thirsts after light yes, the soul, twin to the stars moves through space to find, be made eternal by light and grasp, trembling, the sun a torch handed on from runner to runner through the millennia.
Gunvor Hofmo
#76. To say that politics is not a part of sports is not being realistic. When I run, I am more than a runner. I am a diplomat, an ambassador for my country.
Filbert Bayi
#77. As I crawled out of the abyss of combat and over the rail of the Sea Runner, I realized that compassion for the sufferings of others is a burden to those who have it. As Wilfred Owen's poem "Insensibility" puts it so well, those who feel most of others suffer most in war.
Eugene B. Sledge
#78. If someone wanted to be a runner, you don't tell them to think about running, you tell them to run. And the same simple idea applies to writing, I hope.
Markus Zusak
#79. Actually, ambition won't get you that far. You'll shift gears. You'll see something that's shinier. But if you believe ... then you're the long-distance runner.
Sam Abell
#80. Tears streamed down my face as I crossed the finish line. I was a new person, a runner.
Thomas King
#81. A runner's high doesn't come from thinking about the end result, only of the moment, one step, one breath, one heartbeat at a time. It's the same for a writer ...
C.J. Heck
#82. Anybody can be a runner ... We were meant to move. We were meant to run. It's the easiest sport.
Bill Rodgers
#83. I don't think I would have been such a good runner if I hadn't enjoyed it.
Grete Waitz
#84. I wouldn't say there was a moment of realization when I wanted to be a runner; it was always just something I was.
Ashton Eaton
#85. I don't know much about writing a show or being a show-runner on a show, but I can only imagine that when you first cast a show and you first do a pilot, there are so many components that you're throwing into the mix and you're not sure how they're going to develop.
Alison Brie
#86. I have so many runner-up cups that I am thinking of starting my own tea shop.
Goran Ivanisevic
#87. The fact is, you can't marry the best when you're dating the runner-up. While you're searching for Mr. Right, don't settle for Mr. Right Now.
Craig Groeschel
#88. It's a treat, being a long-distance runner, out in the world by yourself . . . - Alan Sillitoe, The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner
John L. Parker Jr.
#89. To be a runner was not to look a certain way. Running was not a sport. It was a lifestyle.
Lee Krinsky
#90. So I was drawing in a lot of the habit district in Brazil, put that together with an Asian influence, so there are a lot of different things in terms of architecture which assisted in the construction. Then every sci-fi movie I've grown up with from 'Blade Runner' to 'Aliens' and 'Star Wars.'
Len Wiseman
#91. I have always been a huge fan of Ridley Scott and certainly when I was a kid. 'Alien', 'Blade Runner' just blew me away because they created these extraordinary worlds that were just completely immersive. I was also an enormous Stanley Kubrick fan for similar reasons.
Christopher Nolan
#92. The sport is definitely growing, and has become much more competitive. When I started, you were either a former swimmer or runner who took up triathlons. Now, you have a generation of triathletes coming up that started competing at a young age - these are the people that will change the game.
Timothy O'Donnell
#93. The base paths belonged to me, the runner. The rules gave me the right. I always went into a bag full speed, feet first. I had sharp spikes on my shoes. If the baseman stood where he had no business to be and got hurt, that was his fault.
Ty Cobb
#94. There once was a girl named Destiny. She was the fastest runner in the world. No matter how hard she tried, she couldn't outrun who she was. Then she met a boy. He said his name was also Destiny, and for the first time in her life, she didn't feel like she was running alone.
Nyrae Dawn
#95. I had to have running training because I'm not a very good runner. I run weird. The hardest stunt is probably basic running. And trying not to hit myself in the face with my bow, are my two greatest challenges.
Jennifer Lawrence
#96. Stop abandoning your children. You wouldn't call yourself a runner if you quit every race halfway through. Finishing is a good start. Stop looking for the escape hatch; pretend your work in progress just doesn't have one. 23.
Chuck Wendig
#97. I run because I love experiencing the so-called runner's high.
Tina Latio
#98. Keith Richards outlived Jim Fixx, the runner and health nut. The plot thickens.
Bill Hicks
#99. Now I am not running to please sponsors or to be the No.1 U.S. runner. Now I look at each step I get to take as a gift. I run because I love to run. I want to be able to run until I am 90 years old.
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