Marathon Quotes
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Marathon Quotes & Sayings
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A couple of years ago I ran in the LA Marathon.
— Joan Van Ark
I trained for the marathon. I run along the East River, and I used to run all the way down Manhattan, up the West Side and back home.
— Amy Carlson
If you insist on the chase," I say, my voice much surer than I feel."Then you better start training. 'Cause, dude you're in for a marathon.
— Alyson Noel
On the day of the Boston Marathon bombings, for example, I actually knew more about what had happened than the CAPCOM I'd called.
— Chris Hadfield
The marathon will humble you. But the truth is, sometimes it will do more than humble you. Sometimes it will break your heart.
— Bill Rodgers
Finish: Even if you run a slower than expected time, you succeed in any marathon when you finish.
— Hal Higdon
As a comedian, as an entertainer, there's a lot of downtime. Once you can accept that comedy is a marathon, not a sprint, it gets a little easier.
— Iliza Shlesinger
To maintain success, stamina is more important than talent. You have to learn to be a marathon runner.
— Joan Rivers
The Federal appropriations process is a marathon, not a sprint, and we are at the beginning of that process.
— Jim Walsh
I was thinking back to all the time in the gym, working hard, and that spurred me on [winning New York marathon just ten months after giving birth
— Paula Radcliffe
Comedy Central made me delete the Boston Marathon joke. I wasn't happy about it but, despite popular belief, I can occasionally be a team player.
— Anthony Jeselnik
I don't smoke, don't drink much, and go to the gym five times a week. I live a healthy lifestyle and feel great. I can run a marathon, you know.
— Sarah Michelle Gellar
In the marathon anything can happen.
— Paula Radcliffe
If you don't ever stop singing, your voice stays in shape. It's like the marathon runner. You've got to run, run, run to stay in shape.
— Sammy Hagar
Business is a sprint until you find an opportunity, then it's the patience of a marathon runner.
— Robert Herjavec
To describe the agony of a marathon to someone who's never run it is like trying to explain color to someone who was born blind.
— Jerome Drayton
I've had a lot of success over the years racing in New York, but the main point is that I feel the marathon is a different event, a lot more my event.
— Paula Radcliffe
I learned that people in wheelchairs are allowed to have marathons ... which, to me, seems like cheating, but what are you gonna say?
— Sarah Silverman
If youre a vegan who ran a marathon & got your dogs from a shelter, how do you decide which thing to wedge into the conversation first?
— Ken Jennings
If you change your lifestyle, remember it's not a wind sprint, but it's a marathon you're embarked on, and you'll be able to stay there.
— Mehmet Oz
Wounded Warriors tell me they're not just going to walk again, they're going to run, and they're going to run marathons!
— Michelle Obama
It can be said that the first half of the marathon is 20 miles long; the second half, 6.2 more.
— Hal Higdon
The marathon is an art; the marathoner is an artist.
— Kiyoshi Nakamura
The starting line of the New York Marathon is kind of like a giant time bomb behind you about to go off. It is the most spectacular start in sport.
— Bill Rodgers
Don't think of happiness and success as a marathon you have to complete. Think of happiness and success as a few steps you take each day." Ray White
— Ray White
Plenty of people who are 38 have run really well in the marathon.
— Paula Radcliffe
The Athenians, front-fighters of the Greeks, at Marathon destroyed the power of the gold-bearing Medes.
— Simonides
You entered a marathon with hills? You idiot.
— Don Kardong
One cannot learn all about what it's like to run a marathon by interviewing only those who drop out - but one can learn something.
— Daniel C. Dennett
Once flooded with light, our boogeymen diminish, no longer ogres in our imagination. We welcome internal dialogue for its treasures.
— Gina Greenlee
Best wishes for a great marathon. Be sure to savor it. The first marathon is something special. Run long and healthy.
— Amby Burfoot
The mountains look on Marathon And Marathon looks on the sea; And musing there an hour alone, I dreamed that Greece might still be free.
— Robert Byron
Fear is a very explosive emotion, but it has a short life span. It's the sprint. The marathon is hope.
— Mike Huckabee
When I make a live-action movie, it's a very physical process. It's like running a marathon.
— Zack Snyder
The difference between the mile and the marathon is the difference between burning your fingers with a match and being slowly roasted over hot coals.
— Hal Higdon
Of all the races, there is no better stage for heroism than a marathon.
— George A. Sheehan
I pulled a hamstring during the New York City Marathon. An hour into the race, I jumped off the couch ...
— David Letterman
I do a lot of marathons as training runs. If I'm somewhere and there's a marathon, I'll sign up and just go run it.
— Dean Karnazes
The pride in finishing a marathon is much greater than all the pain endured during the marathon.
— Hal Higdon
I will never be ok with the suffering of others - that I will likely continue to fight so I must treat it as a marathon race not a sprint.
— Kristin Bauer Van Straten
In an era when man can no longer dash out of his cave and slay a mammoth, he simply slips on his Lycra and goes for a run.
— Phil Hewitt
The New York Marathon: a fantastic event.
— Pope John Paul II
Success breeds success on a marathon route. If you can prove to yourself that you are doing well, then invariably you will do even better.
— Phil Hewitt
People have to realize that dieting is not a sprint, it's a marathon. If you celebrate the small victories, you will eventually win the war.
— Ian K. Smith
The journey to greatness is a marathon, not a hundred meter dash.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Never run more than 3 hours straight in training, whether your marathon best is 2:42 or 4:24.
— Ed Eyestone
I'm never going to run this again.
— Grete Waitz
I was on a path, and I became determined to give it everything I had - no matter what.
— Eleanor Brownn
There's always somebody doing something more extreme than you are. It used to be that if you ran the marathon, that was the end of it.
— Don Kardong
One of the most important ways for you to train, stay healthy and injury free is to listen closely to what your body tells you.
— Gina Greenlee
Running a marathon is something I've always wanted to do.
— Jennie Finch
I set myself some specific goals, but the key one is just getting myself into as good a shape as possible for one day this year: the Olympic marathon.
— Paula Radcliffe
You've climbed too many mountains and crossed too many rivers to stop and turn back now.
— Eleanor Brownn
I want to encourage people to make healthy life choices, whether it's training for a half-marathon, or eating more vegetables.
— Kina Grannis
I don't want to die before Will Smith 'cause then I miss that awesome 'Fresh Prince of Bel-Air' marathon.
— Hannibal Buress
Few things in life match the thrill of a marathon.
— Fred Lebow
I always do an all-night horror marathon on Saturdays where we start at seven and go until five in the morning.
— Quentin Tarantino
A doable goal for me is to finish a marathon under four hours. I'm doing all the training, but the hardest part is eating right.
— Sean Astin
If you want to run, run a mile. If you want to experience a different life, run a marathon.
— Emil Zatopek
I don't sleep at night at all. Making movies is a marathon. I'm a good 100-yard-dash guy.
— Gary David Goldberg
In a marathon, if you run too fast, you get exhausted. If you run too slow, you never make it.
— Uday Kotak
Triumph over adversity that's what the marathon is all about. Nothing in life can't triumph after that
— Kathrine Switzer
Whenever I'm being invited to the New York City Marathon like today, I need to think twice because I know it's a very tough race.
— Martin Lel
Making a movie is like a marathon, and commercials are like sprints - they're equally satisfying, but in different ways.
— Tony Scott
I'd seen more cops in the last few days than on a weekend LAW and ORDER marathon - Paigne Winterbourne
— Kelley Armstrong
The tears that rushed to my eyes threatened to spill forth and I was seconds from crying as if I'd watched a marathon of Hallmark movies.
— Jennifer L. Armentrout
It's a bit like running a marathon, isn't it? It's only when you reach the finish line that you have time to collapse.
— Lucinda Riley
We eat and sleep and shuffle through the fog, walking a marathon with no finish line, no medals, no cheering.
— Isaac Marion
Rincewind had always been happy to think of himself as a racist. The One Hundred Meters, the Mile, the Marathon
he'd run them all. — Terry Pratchett
he'd run them all. — Terry Pratchett
It was like someone had cheerfully suggested she run a marathon when she'd just dragged herself out of bed after suffering from the flu.
— Liane Moriarty
Marathon running, for me, was the most controlled test of mettle that I could ever think of. It's you against Darwin.
— Ryan Reynolds
There is a special mystique about the marathon, for example, because of its length-but that's just the bit you do at the end of an Ironman
— Chrissie Wellington
Panting like a marathon runner at mile twenty, overheated bloodhound, steam engine crawling up the Continental Divide.
— Dennis Vickers
My thoughts and prayers go out to the thousands of marathon runners, onlookers, city officials and others affected by this senseless tragedy.
— Ed Markey
When you train for a marathon, there's always a cost. You're always forced to give something up.
— Brook Kreder
Training is essential for almost any significant endeavor in life - running a marathon, becoming a surgeon, learning how to play the piano.
— John Ortberg
Life is a marathon, not a sprint; pace yourself accordingly.
— Amby Burfoot
TV is, as I'm discovering now, a marathon. You have to keep going and going and going.
— Jonathan Nolan
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— Michael Palmer
I ran my fastest marathon in the rain.
— Bill Rodgers