26.2 Running Quotes
1. “Pride lasts longer than pain.”
2.
“Running is an art form. You
fine tune your running, adding the touches, the way you do a painting.”
--Suzy
Hamilton
3.
“You don’t run 26 miles...you run one mile 26 times.”
--Jerry
Lynch
4.
“You can never be sure. That’s
what makes the marathon both fearsome and fascinating.
The deeper you go into the unknown, the more uncertain you become.
But then you finish. And you
wonder later, “How did I do that?” This
question compels you to keep making the journey from the usual to the
magical.” --Joe
Henderson
5.
“A man must love a thing very much if he not only practices it without
any hope of fame and money, but even practices it without any hope of doing it
well.” --G.K.
Chesterton
6.
“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
7.
“Of all the races, there is no better stage for heroism than a
marathon.” --George
Sheehan
8.
“A runner is someone who runs; it’s that simple--and that grand.
Be that someone. Be yourself. Be
your own runner.” --Mark
Will-Weber
9.
“The marathon is a charismatic event. It
has everything. It has drama. It
has competition. It has
camaraderie. It has heroism. Every jogger can’t dream of being an Olympic champion, but
he can dream of finishing a
marathon.” --Fred
Lebow
10.
“Like most runners, I always want to do better.
I am constantly after myself for eating too much and training too little.
I know if I weighed a few pounds less and trained a few hours more, my
times would improve. But I find the
rewards not quite worth the effort...I am forced, therefore to do the best with
what I’ve got. I must get my
speed and distance from the most efficient use of my body.”
--George
Sheehan
11.
“I run because it’s so symbolic of life. You have to drive yourself to overcome the obstacles.
You might feel that you can’t. But
then you find your inner strength, and realize you’re capable of so much more
than you thought.” --Arthur
Blank
12.
“It’s very hard in the beginning to understand that the whole idea is
not to beat the other runners. Eventually
you learn that the competition is against the little voice inside you that wants
you to quit.” --George
Sheehan
13.
“No marathon gets easier later.
The half way point only marks the end of the beginning.”
--Joe
Henderson
14.
“To know you are one with what you are doing, to know that you are a
complete athlete, begins with believing you are a runner.”
--George
Sheehan
15.
“Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no matter how
slow.” --Plato
16.
“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
17.
“If you feel bad at 10 miles, you’re in trouble.
If you feel bad at 20 miles, you’re normal.
If you don’t feel bad at 26 miles, you’re abnormal.”
--Rob
de Castella
18.
“The difference between a jogger and a runner is an entry
blank.” --George
Sheehan
19.
“In training or in a race--especially a marathon--you only have so much
energy: your
matches. And
if you burn them all at once, you won’t have anything left for the big race,
or the end of the marathon.”
--Jennifer
Martin
20.
“We who run (marathons) are different from those who merely study us.
We are out there experiencing what they are trying to put into words.
We know what they are merely trying to know.
They are seeking belief, while we already believe.
Our difficulty is in expressing the whole truth of that experience, that
knowledge, that belief.”
--George
Sheehan
21.
“You have to forget your last marathon before you try another.
Your mind can’t know what’s coming.”
--Frank
Shorter
22.
“Don’t hit the wall--run through it!” --Gatorade
ad
23.
“Divide the race into thirds. Run
the first part with your head, the middle part with your personality, and the
last part with your heart.” --Mike
Fanelli
24.
“The music of a marathon is a powerful strain, one of those tunes of
glory. It asks us to forsake
pleasures, to discipline the body, to find courage, to renew faith and to become
one’s own person, utterly and completely.”
--George
Sheehan