Running Quotes

Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up. It knows it must outrun the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning in Africa, a lion wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the slowest gazelle, or it will starve. It doesn't matter whether you're a lion or a gazelle— when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.

You don't stop running because you get old. You get old because you stop running.

The way to activate your fat-burning furnace is by staying below your aerobic threshold—your hard-breathing point—during your endurance runs.

If you are not afraid to just go out and compete, then you will run your best race. But if you go out with a fear of something, even against yourself or against the clock, then you have lost the race before you start.

The qualities and capacities that are important in running-such factors as will power, the ability to apply effort during extreme fatigue and the acceptance of pain-have a radiating power that subtly influences one's life.

Is the quick and stoic stepper going to spawn a secondary event- a maternithon for expectant mothers?

Mental preparation is perhaps the most neglected factor in racing.

Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other.

Above all, do not lose your desire to walk.

Exerting yourself to the fullest within your individual limits: that's the essence of running, and a metaphor for life.

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.

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