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Marathon running is a terrible experience: monotonous, heavy, and exhausting. -- Veikko Karvonen
If you want to run, run a mile. If you want to experience a different life, run a marathon. -- Emil Zatopek
When you run the marathon, you run against the distance, not against the other runners and not against the time. -- Haile Gebrselassie
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
I've run the Boston Marathon 6 times before. I think the best aspects of the marathon are the beautiful changes of the scenery along the route and the warmth of the people's support. I feel happier every time I enter this marathon. -- Haruki Murakami
Marathon runners set explicit goals. -- Joseph B. Wirthlin
The New York Marathon: a fantastic event. -- Pope John Paul II
Age shakes Athena's tower, but spares gray Marathon. -- Lord Byron
Let's hope the Boston Marathon bomber is a white American. -- David Sirota
A couple of years ago I ran in the LA Marathon. -- Joan Van Ark
Truth-loving Persians do not dwell upon The trivial skirmish fought near Marathon. -- Robert Graves
Yesterday was the New York City Marathon. Republicans won in a landslide. -- David Letterman
If you've given a dollar, you are part of the Marathon of Hope . -- Terry Fox
I couldn't be more excited to return to the ING New York City Marathon. -- Ryan Hall
The Athenians, front-fighters of the Greeks, at Marathon destroyed the power of the gold-bearing Medes. -- Simonides
I did a movie called Marathon Man and it was one of my best memories. -- Dustin Hoffman
I pulled a hamstring during the New York City Marathon. An hour into the race, I jumped off the couch... -- David Letterman
Marathon running, for me, was the most controlled test of mettle that I could ever think of. It's you against Darwin. -- Ryan Reynolds
NYC Marathon cancelled: runners are scrambling to find some other meaningless accomplishment to use as a proxy for control over their lives. -- Nils Parker
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In my bright, utopian future world, they will hand out college educations like cups of water at the end of the L.A. Marathon. -- Henry Rollins
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
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
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
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
Most people who do a lot of exercise, particularly in the form of competitive athletics, have unneurotic, extraverted, optimistic personalities to begin with. (Marathon runners are exceptions to this.) -- Robert M. Sapolsky
We didn't crumble after 9/11. We didn't falter after the Boston Marathon. But we're America. Americans will never, ever stand down. We endure. We overcome. We own the finish line. -- Joe Biden
Marathon Day in Boston and all of Massachusetts, it's Patriot's Day, and it's a big celebration for us. It's a day when we're kind of the whole world's city there. -- Elizabeth Warren
Mary Keitany from Kenya won the women's race at the New York City Marathon. You can tell she was fast because guys on the street didn't even have time to finish their catcalls. -- David Letterman
There is a unique energy surrounding the Boston Marathon that you can't help but feel. It includes every runner and every person along the course. It brings every person there together as one. -- Amy Hastings
I am the very model of a modern Major-General, I've information vegetable, animal, and mineral, I know the kings of England, and I quote the fights historical, From Marathon to Waterloo, in order categorical. -- W.S. Gilbert
When I go to the Boston Marathon now, I have wet shouldersâ??women fall into my arms crying. They're weeping for joy because running has changed their lives. They feel they can do anything. -- Kathrine Switzer
Marathon training doesn't have to be a grind. By running for about 30 minutes two times a week, and by gradually increasing the length of a third weekly run-the long run-anyone can finish a marathon. -- Jeff Galloway
I ran the Boston Marathon out of love. I believe that love is the basis of all meaningful human endeavor. Yet it was a love that was incomplete until it was shared with others. -- Bobbi Gibb
When I came to New York in 1978, I was a full-time school teacher and track runner, and determined to retire from competitive running. But winning the New York City Marathon kept me running for another decade. -- Grete Waitz
I think it's important to keep mantras fresh (sometimes the same verse can get stale). That being said, I love this powerful statement: 'Define yourself.' I rehearsed it a million times during the 2005 Chicago Marathon [her first win]. -- Deena Kastor
Winning times in the New York City Marathon have not dropped all that much over the years, but rather U.S. runners went backward. In 1983, there were 267 U.S. men who broke 2:20 in a marathon, and by 2000 that number was down to 27. -- Alberto Salazar
Half of all broccoli grown commercially in America today is a single variety- Marathon- notable for it's high yield. The overwhelming majority of the chickens raised for meat in America are the same hybrid, the Cornish cross; more than 99 percent of turkeys are the Broad-Breasted Whites. -- Michael Pollan
Tamerlan Tsarnaev is telling no tales. The older of the two brothers who committed the Boston Marathon bombings was likely the one who planned the attack, but when he died in a shootout with police just days after the blasts, his thoughts and motivations vanished with him. -- Jeffrey Kluger
The Marathon distance is very difficult to cover and without the support of all of the fans and people cheering us on and the other runners, we would have a very difficult time to run the full race. So we work together to make a marathon happen. -- Tilahun Regassa
There was no way to lock down, or tighten up, or Fail-Safe into Security Theater a race that covers 26.2 miles, a race that travels from town to town, a race that travels past people's houses. There was no way to garrison the Boston Marathon. Now there will be. -- Charlie Pierce
The marathon can humble you. -- Bill Rodgers
Hills are speedwork in disguise. -- Frank Shorter
The marathon is an art; the marathoner is an artist. -- Kiyoshi Nakamura
In some respects, progressing through life is like running a marathon. -- Joseph B. Wirthlin
To give anything less than your best, is to sacrifice the gift. -- Steve Prefontaine
If you are losing faith in human nature, go out and watch a marathon. -- Kathrine Switzer
I have to change a lot of things before I become a good marathon runner. -- Haile Gebrselassie
The marathon is a charismatic event. It has everything. It has drama, competition, camaraderie & heroism -- Fred Lebow
Business is a sprint until you find an opportunity, then it's the patience of a marathon runner. -- Robert Herjavec
You have to forget your last marathon before you try another. Your mind can't know what's coming. -- Frank Shorter
We are different, in essence, from other men. If you want to win something, run 100 meters. If you want to experience something, run a marathon. -- Emil Zatopek
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
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
In the marathon a crazy athlete can just keep pushing from the beginning, at a championship you don't need a time just to win the race. -- Haile Gebrselassie
There is the truth about the marathon and very few of you have written the truth. Even if I explain to you, you'll never understand it, you're outside of it. -- Douglas Wakiihuri
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
The marathon is a charismatic event. It has everything. It has drama. It has competition. Every jogger can't dream of being an Olympic champion, but he can dream of finishing a marathon. -- Fred Lebow
No doubt a brain and some shoes are essential for marathon success, although if it comes down to a choice, pick the shoes. More people finish marathons with no brains than with no shoes. -- Don Kardong
Training for a marathon is much like climbing a ladder. Each ring is a short-term goal that must be met in sequence in order to reach the long-term goal at the top of the ladder. -- Richard Benyo
The marathon always starts after 30K. That's where the problems start. You start without any problems, without any pain. All the pain comes after 30K. Sometimes, it's possible to have pain even in the finger. -- Haile Gebrselassie
Most people have this perception that you have to be out there running for an hour and a half every day. But you don't have to give up your career and family to run a marathon. -- Jeff Galloway
You can actually suffer a little bit more going slowly than when you're going really fast. A faster marathon might even be easier than a slow one, in terms of what it takes out of you mentally. -- Frank Shorter
Life is often compared to a marathon, but I think it is more like being a sprinter; long stretches of hard work punctuated by brief moments in which we are given the opportunity to perform at our best. -- Michael Johnson
The key to running a good marathon is to not listen to anyone's advice the last week before the race. That's when people tend to do stupid things that disrupt all the input and training of the previous months. -- Don Kardong
Marathons are extraordinarily difficult, but if you've got the training under your belt, and if you can run smart, the races take care of themselves. When you have the enthusiasm and the passion, you end up figuring how to excel. -- Deena Kastor
My wife and I work out together almost every day. It's just a great way to spend time together. We're going to run a marathon together later this year, and that's one more goal that we'll accomplish as husband and wife. -- Bill Rancic
This is a marathon in life. You can't be sprinting all the time or else you wear yourself out. You have to make sure you're taking care of yourself, keeping yourself grounded and not letting every little thing get you worked up. -- Brian Moynihan
When I hear people debate the ROI of social media? It makes me remember why so many business fail. Most businesses are not playing the marathon. They're playing the sprint. They're not worried about lifetime value and retention. They're worried about short-term goals. -- Gary Vaynerchuk
I definitely want to show how beautiful the marathon can be. I am the opponent of all those who find the marathon bad: the psychologists, the physiologists, the doubters. I make the marathon beautiful for myself and for others. That's why I'm here. -- Uta Pippig
In the end, the American dream is not a sprint, or even a marathon, but a relay. Our families don't always cross the finish line in the span of one generation. But each generation passes on to the next the fruits of their labor. -- Julian Castro
I don't think about the miles that are coming down the road, I don't think about the mile I'm on right now, I don't think about the miles I've already covered. I think about what I'm doing right now, just being lost in the moment. -- Ryan Hall
It's about having an active lifestyle, staying healthy, and making the right decisions. Life is about balance. Not everybody wants to run a marathon, but we could all start working out and being active, whether you walk to work or take an extra flight of stairs. -- Apolo Ohno
The world is full of people who have dreams of playing at Carnegie Hall, of running a marathon, and of owning their own business. The difference between the people who make it across the finish line and everyone else is one simple thing: an action plan. -- John Tesh
There is nothing in this world that I love more than my family. To be able to share the joy of running with them at the Runner's World Half Marathon and Running Festival where we can all participate together is as close as you can get to a perfect weekend. -- Summer Sanders
The marathon has so many elements to prepare for. I think that is one reason I always want to come back for more. There is always something to change in your preparation and I am still trying to discover what I am capable of. I guess I just love the challenge. -- Dathan Ritzenhein
I think animation is like running a marathon, and making a movie is like a 100 meter sprint. The question is: are you a marathon man or are you a sprinter? I realized that I was more of a sprinter than a marathon man. With a long, long project, I get bored easily. -- Marjane Satrapi
In the marathon obstacle course of a career, it's just good to have all the stats on paper for why you're not only a team player but also why it makes sense to support you in the projects you want to do - because you've made so much damned money for the studio. -- Robert Downey, Jr.
Runners exalt the marathon as a public test of private will, when months or years of solitary training, early mornings, lost weekends, rain and pain mature into triumph or surrender. That's one reason the race-day crowds matter, the friends who come to cheer and stomp and flap their signs and push the runners on. -- Nancy Gibbs
Two days after the Boston marathon bombings, there was a drone strike in Yemen attacking a peaceful village, which killed a target who could very easily have been apprehended. But, of course, it is just easier to terrorise people. The drones are a terrorist weapon; they not only kill targets but also terrorise other people. -- Noam Chomsky
When you run a part of the relay and pass on the baton, there is no sense of unfinished business in your mind. There is just the sense of having done your part to the best of your ability. That is it. The hope is to pass on the baton to somebody who will run faster and run a better marathon. -- N. R. Narayana Murthy
What I think a lot of great marathon runners do is envision crossing that finish line. Visualization is critical. But for me, I set a lot of little goals along the way to get my mind off that overwhelming goal of 26.2 miles. I know I've got to get to 5, and 12, and 16, and then I celebrate those little victories along the way. -- Bill Rancic
Marathon running, like golf, is a game for players, not winners. That is why Callaway sells golf clubs and Nike sells running shoes. But running is unique in that the world's best racers are on the same course, at the same time, as amateurs, who have as much chance of winning as your average weekend warrior would scoring a touchdown in the NFL. -- Hunter S. Thompson
I am a marathon worker and marathon mother. I'll spend three or four days completely swallowed up by work. And if I make it home in time to say good night, I may have one good hour with the girls, maybe a brief family dinner or a family walk with the dog, and then it is back on the computer to prepare for tomorrow's shows. -- Mika Brzezinski
The marathon's about being in contention over the last 10K. That's when it's about what you have in your core. You have run all the strength, all the superficial fitness out of yourself, and it really comes down to what's left inside you. To be able to draw deep and pull something out of yourself is one of the most tremendous things about the marathon. -- Robert de Castella
I finished a marathon -- Hal Higdon
Life's a marathon, not a sprint. -- Phil McGraw
The marathon is like a bullfight. -- Alberto Salazar
In the marathon anything can happen -- Paula Radcliffe
In the marathon anything can happen. -- Paula Radcliffe
[We] have sex like Kenyan marathon runners. -- Olivia Wilde
Writing is a marathon, not a sprint. -- Robert McKee
You entered a marathon with hills? You idiot. --
I ran my fastest marathon in the rain. -- Bill Rodgers
The race of life is a marathon, not a sprint. -- Tony Robbins
My goal is to break three hours in a marathon -- Frank Shorter
My goal is to break three hours in a marathon. -- Frank Shorter
In the marathon of life, there is no finish line. -- Bill Courtney
Few things in life match the thrill of a marathon. -- Fred Lebow
Novels are a marathon, while comic scripts are a sprint. -- Duane Swierczynski
Life is a marathon, not a sprint; pace yourself accordingly. -- Amby Burfoot
The marathon is a competition between your will and your possibilities -- Jeff Galloway
The long run is the single most important ingredient to marathon success. -- Bob Glover
You can't win a marathon without putting some bandaids on your nipples! -- Kevin Spacey
The marathon is my only girlfriend. I give her everything I have. -- Toshihiko Seko
Donald Trump is to traditional values what I am to marathon running. -- Mark Shields
Plenty of people who are 38 have run really well in the marathon. -- Paula Radcliffe
Business is a marathon, and most of society thinks it's a sprint. -- Gary Vaynerchuk
It's about time! It's supposed to be a ritual, not a marathon. -- Karen Chance
What could be funnier than a fat person trying to run a marathon? -- Jo Brand
Playing a three-hour Rush show is like running a marathon while solving equations. -- Neil Peart
The marathon never ceases to be a race of joy, a race of wonder. -- Hal Higdon
Of all the races, there is no better stage for heroism than a marathon. -- George A. Sheehan
The American dream is not a sprint or even a marathon but a relay. -- Julian Castro
Never run more than 3 hours straight in training, whether your marathon best is 2:42 or 4:24. -- Ed Eyestone
The only way I'll ever run a marathon is if I'm involved in the administration. -- Sally Phillips
I've run the marathon several times, so I definitely don't look like the Great Ancestor! -- George Takei
My husband and I both have our bucket lists. Running a marathon was on mine. -- Alison Sweeney
I thought about running a marathon a long time ago, but I'm just not a runner -- Shannon Miller
I always say if the marathon is a part-time interest, you will only get part-time results. -- Bill Rodgers

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