Track Runner Sayings

#1. When I came to New York in 1978, I was a full-time school teacher and track runner, and determined to retire from competitive running. But winning the New York City Marathon kept me running for another decade.

Grete Waitz

#2. I take a swig of wine. A big one. It's pointless. There's not enough wine in the world for this.

Leisa Rayven

#3. People of influence understand the incredible value of becoming a good listener.

John C. Maxwell

#4. We'd have to suck away at oxygen canisters between songs just so that we could keep playing.

Michael Hutchence

#5. Especially with sports cars, when you have got so many cars on the track with various degrees of competitiveness, then something will happen. It's the nature of racing, the law of averages. If you want to be a front-runner then you are going to have to push very hard, and collisions can happen.

Allan McNish

#6. Voldemort the corn snake with the shoe fetish. Wonderful.

Huntley Fitzpatrick

#7. I was a runner, a failed quarterback, third-string quarterback, but in track I was a 2-miler.

Bob Seger

#8. A strong and brave heart isn't enough. A true heart, no matter how much the truth hurts, is the strongest of all.

Cameron Jace

#9. God's presence is everywhere around us. God is able to penetrate intertwine himself within the fibers of the human self in such a way that those who are enveloped in His loving companionship will never be alone. page 59

Dallas Willard

#10. Oral history is a recipe for complete misrepresentation because almost no one tells the truth, even when they intend to.

Niall Ferguson

#11. 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

#12. Happiness is bliss - but ignorance is anesthetic, and in the face of what's to come, that may be all we can hope for our ill-fated acquaintances.

William Ritter

#13. I trained with Olympics Athlete Jeanette Kwakye - who is amazing! And Shani Anderson, who is an excellent Olympic runner. We trained five times a week; running, circuits, weights, working out in the gym, and on the track. It was an insane time.

Lily James

#14. And not out of fear or loneliness, but only to find myself again ... for we have come too far my Life, to turn back now ...

John Geddes

#15. I'd excluded New York from my writing, and then I came back and I fell in love with it all over again. The energy comes from an absence, that yearning for New York when you are not there.

Jonathan Lethem

#16. It seems to me most people make the mistake of never building a following where they are considered a resource to their fan base so when they do release the book there will be somebody there to buy it.

Larry Winget

#17. There's probably a little more creative freedom in cable versus network, a little less of a committee looking over everyone's shoulder, but it depends on the network; it depends on the show; it depends on who the head writer or show runner is and what track record they have.

Timothy Hutton

#18. You will return to Lord Gyles and inform him that he does not have my leave to die.

George R R Martin

#19. Yoga helps me be a stronger runner. I can lose track of my form, and yoga reminds me how important it is.

Danny Pudi

#20. I'm interested in how people shoot because I have a very specific way of shooting and I'm fascinated by the way other people shoot films, particularly if they're smart and talented.

Stanley Tucci

#21. I think photographers are too polite. There is not enough anger in photography; it's pretty much trivialized.

Duane Michals

#22. Government should allow people to go out and do the things Americans have always done, create jobs and prosperity. And America's role in the world - the world is a safer and better place when America is the strongest country in the world.

Marco Rubio