Distance Running Quotes: top 38 famous quotes about Distance Running

Distance Running Quotes & Sayings

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I enjoyed the discipline and solitariness of long-distance running, which allowed me to escape from the hurly-burly of school life. — Nelson Mandela

We don't even realize something is broken until someone else shows us a better way — Alexis Ohanian

Good things come slow, especially in distance running. — Bill Dellinger

Some sessions are stars and some sessions are stones, but in the end they are all rocks and we build upon them. — Chrissie Wellington

He ran from one side of the cage, and then back again, which was not very far. It was far only if you were a puppy. — Michael Delaware

Distance running to a professional athlete in my day was five laps around the field. And you stopped each lap to take your pulse. — Lynn Swann

They say the breaks even up in the long run, and the trick is to be a long-distance runner. — Chuck Knox

I hate it when people come up to me when I'm eating. — Shirley Bassey

Art said he wanted to get more distance. I told him to hit it and run backward. — Ken Venturi

To be a champion long-distance runner you have to run on the edge of death. — Toshihiko Seko

Ideas emerge from plays, not the other way around. — Sam Shepard

I believe that all roads lead to the same place - and that is wherever all roads lead to. — Willie Nelson

Distance running demands a brain-body connection that no other creature is capable of. — Christopher McDougall

I've always said the toughest thing about learning to feel your feelings is that then you have to feel your feelings ... — Pam Houston

Finland has produced so many brilliant distance runners because back home it costs $2.50 a gallon for gas. — Esa Tikkanen

Half my life is full of sorrow,
Half of joy, still fresh and new;
One of these lives is a fancy,
But the other one is true. — Adelaide Anne Procter

I would never again assume that any figure of authority automatically held any intellectual distinction. I am unafraid. — Morrissey

Can works be made which are not 'of art'? — Marcel Duchamp

You learn to run like a sprinter, you'll be a great distance runner — Alberto Salazar

It is true that speed kills. In distance running, it kills anyone who does not have it. — Brooks Johnson

Taking it easy is often the prelude to backsliding. Comfort precedes collapse. — Vance Havner

I watched you roll off me and step away from the bed in silence, but when the heat of your body was gone, I wanted it back. — Julio Alexi Genao

Success isn't how far you got, but the distance you traveled from where you started. — Steve Prefontaine

Long slow distance makes long slow runners. — Jim Bush

Once we get into the groove, we're kind of like long-distance runners - that adrenalin kicks in for me and I just keep running - and I don't stop! — Keith Urban

once you start running and apply the mathematics of change, suddenly this insurmountable distance gets crushed under the curve of motion. — Sam A. Patel

There's no such thing as a bad carbohydrate. — Don Kardong

People are either scholars or learners, everyone else are mobs. — Imam Ali Bin Abi Taleb

I've always felt that long, slow distance produces long, slow runners. — Sebastian Coe

I looked over at him, running in the distance. Another faulty, fucked-up brain in a healthy body. — S.J. Watson

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

Remember, it's the pace that kills, never the distance. — Bill Jones

While the truth is putting on its shoes, the lie becomes a champion of a long-distance running. — Ljupka Cvetanova

Lift up your heads, ye people,
lift up your faces, too,
open your mouths to sing His praise,
and the rain will fall on you. — Aimee Semple McPherson

There are many challenges to long distance running, but one of the greatest is the question of where to put on's house keys. — Gabrielle Zevin

As for the subject matter in my painting ... it is very often an incidental thing in the background, elusive and unclear, that really stirred me. — William Baziotes

The single biggest change in middle-distance running, from the 1500 metres to 10,000 metres, has been the track surface. — Herb Elliott

the city," he said diplomatically. — Victoria Thompson