Distance Running Quotes

Distance Running Quote of the day

Good things come slow, especially in distance running.

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

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

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

In long-distance running the only opponent you have to beat is yourself, the way you used to be.

Long distance running is particularly good training in perseverance.

We have an unknown distance yet to run, an unknown river to explore.

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

Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.

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

I get stoned, I can't get home, I'm calling long distance on a public saxophone. My head is achin', my back is breakin', feel I got run over by Captain Coconut and his dog named Rover.

During long, slow distance training, you should think of yourself as a thoroughbred disguised as a plow horse. No need to give yourself away by running fast.

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

Long slow distance makes long slow runners.

Long distance running is 90% mental and the other half is physical.

Want a strong, solid relationship that is willing to go the distance? Get to know your running shoes.

A perfect run has nothing to do with distance. It's when your stride feels comfortable.

In the big city, if the man next door happens to be a slum landlord, a Mafia bag man, or a long distance runner, what does it matter, as long as he puts his garbage out on Tuesdays?

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

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

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!

You shall become the person you are.

In general, any form of exercise, if pursued continuously, will help train us in perseverance. Long-distance running is particularly good training in perseverance.

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

I found I could also be good in cross country. I don't think my running style has anything to do with it. If you have speed and your body feels good, you can do any distance.

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

Your body's made to run, to walk, to trek long distances and carry things, work in a forest, and hunt animals. You have to keep it alive to function.

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

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

With the case of running, it really is a case of get out, set yourself a distance, run it, and then do it again the next day. It's tremendously simple.

Of course, long-distance running has to do with the fact that we're hunters.

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.

Mind sees world from various perspectives when body does long-distance running.