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Running Quotes

Here are some of my favorite running quotes:

"I always loved running...it was something you could do by yourself, and under your own power. You could go in any direction, fast or slow as you wanted, fighting the wind if you felt like it, seeking out new sights just on the strength of your feet and the courage of your lungs." - Jesse Owens

"Most people run a race to see who is fastest. I run a race to see who has the most guts." - Steve Prefontaine

"You have to forget your last marathon before you try another. Your mind can't know what's coming." - Frank Shorter

"I have met my hero, and he is me." - George Sheehan

"Tough times don't last but tough people do." - A.C. Green

"You don't run against a bloody stop watch, do you hear? A runner runs against himself, against the best that's in him. Not against a dead thing of wheels and pulleys. That's the way to be great, running against yourself. Against all the rotten mess in the world. Against God, if you're good enough." - Bill Persons

"There are as many reasons for running as there are days in the year, years in my life. But mostly I run because I am an animal and a child, an artist and a saint. So, too, are you. Find your own play, your own self-renewing compulsion, and you will become the person you are meant to be." - George Sheehan

"Everyone who has run knows that its most important value is in removing tension and allowing a release from whatever other cares the day may bring." - Jimmy Carter

"Runners just do it - they run for the finish line even if someone else has reached it first." - Author Unknown

"Running is the greatest metaphor for life, because you get out of it what you put into it." - Oprah Winfrey

"You must listen to your body. Run through annoyance but not through pain." - George Sheehan

"The obsession with running is really an obsession with the potential for more and more life." - George Sheehan

"Life is a positive-sum game. Everyone from the gold medallist to the last finisher can rejoice in a personal victory." - George Sheehan

"Never, Never, Never Quit!" - Winston Churchill

"Running is real and relatively simple - but it ain't easy." - Mark Will-Weber



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