Marathon Quotes
I want to encourage people to make healthy life choices, whether it's training for a half-marathon, or eating more vegetables.
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.
I like making comics and animation because it takes such a long time. I'm not a runner of the 100 meter. I like marathons. The longer it takes, the better I feel.
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.
Not everybody is going to run a marathon or do a triathlon. It's not necessary to do that to be in good health.
Novel writing is the slowest art form in the world. It is not a sprint. It is not even a marathon. It is a series of marathons that stretch over and over across a continent.
NYC Marathon cancelled: runners are scrambling to find some other meaningless accomplishment to use as a proxy for control over their lives.
I change myself a lot. Some roles you don't want to be big, bulky, muscle-y guy and some roles you want to be a lean, marathon-runner physical type. And some roles you just don't want to be in shape.
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.
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.
If you look back at my marathons and ask whether I would swap one of them for my one balls-up, of course I would. But you can't choose. You have to make the best of it on the day.
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
There are many pitfalls in the marathon of life. But regardless of what you go through, you can count on God's sustaining grace.
Sometimes for me not throwing a tantrum is what running a marathon or swimming the English Channel must be like for others of a less-challenging emotional nature.
Marathon running, for me, was the most controlled test of mettle that I could ever think of. It's you against Darwin.
I would sooner be prime minister of the moon than run another marathon. I've been really lucky. I didn't have any toenails fall off or anything disgusting like that. I still have all three nipples.
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.
I enter myself in races. I did a triathlon, and I have done a marathon a couple of times.
At the end of a marathon, it's going to hurt whether you're speeding up or slowing down. You may as well push.
Boston is the cream of the crop of the marathon world. It has such history that you feel such honor just being a part of it. All the other races have pacers to get you to a Boston qualifying time.
The novelist is more a marathon runner than long-distance runner and the kind of courage it takes working in such isolation cannot be underestimated. I really respect my fellow writers on this front.
I wanted to try marathon running, but something always came up: I had a baby and a C-section or I got injured or I just didn't think I could run that far.
As your training integrates Mind, Body and Spirit, enjoy the process. Your journey to the marathon finish will last a few hours. Your journey to the start will influence a lifetime.
You’ve climbed too many mountains and crossed too many rivers to stop and turn back now.
In the long run most short cuts are flawed - especially on journeys to 'so-called' success
Like all living things, you were created for unlimited growth and possibilities. Keep growing. Keep changing. Be everything you were meant to be.
I was on a path, and I became determined to give it everything I had — no matter what.
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.
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.
Remember, it’s the pace that kills, never the distance.
Our favorite: a former garbage dump converted into a riverside park. I first ran there more than 30 years ago when a marathon passed through this park that later became home to Pre's Trail.