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Runners are poor walkers. -- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
WINNER:is A Runner who "Wins Inspite Of Ninety Nine Excellent Runners! -- Sujit Lalwani
Runners, by nature, are intentional people and normally pretty light on our feet. -- Kristin Armstrong
We've got a lot of people that support, but The Runners are definitely one of my favorites. -- Ace Hood
Runners don't run with their legs, they run ON their legs. In reality, they run with their Arms! -- Percy Cerutty
Runners are the ultimate celebration people. Running is just so intense, you're really experiencing life to the fullest. -- Bill Rodgers
Runners like to train 100 miles per week because it's a round number. But I think 88 is a lot rounder. -- Don Kardong
Good try, ya bugging shank. The Gathering elects Runners, and if you think I'm tough, they'd laugh in your face. -- James Dashner
Runners in the western world have a tendency to create psychological barriers for themselves, but Morceli runs at will, with no inhibitions. -- Eamonn Coghlan
Runners...you're competitive, but you want to have fun, too. You want to enjoy life. And runners really get to do that, I think-after we recover. -- Bill Rodgers
Runners are competitive folks. I think some might feel slighted they haven't got more recognition. I think they have a point. In running, you won't necessarily get noticed just for turning in good performances. -- Dean Karnazes
I own records that have the power to make me cry. Records to be by or with - truly precious possessions. It is the ambition of the Midnight Runners to make records of this value... -- Kevin Rowland
Runners and yogis are alike in lots of ways, and not just because some of us need yoga to unkink what running jams. Runners and yogis are also alike because of this tortoise shell idea, this 'home' we can access inside ourselves. -- Kristin Armstrong
A teacher is never too smart to learn from his pupils. But while runners differ, basic principles never change. So it's a matter of fitting your current practices to fit the event and the individual. See, what's good for you might not be worth a darn for the next guy. -- Bill Bowerman
A runner must run with dreams in his heart. -- Emil Zatopek
There is magic in misery. Just ask any runner. -- Dean Karnazes
I've always felt that long, slow distance produces long, slow runners. -- Sebastian Coe
The difference between a jogger and a runner is an entry blank. -- George A. Sheehan
Stadiums are for spectators. We runners have Nature, and that is much better. -- Juha Vaatainen
There is no such thing as an average runner. We are all above average. -- Hal Higdon
I have to change a lot of things before I become a good marathon runner. -- Haile Gebrselassie
Finland has produced so many brilliant distance runners because back home it costs $2.50 a gallon for gas. -- Esa Tikkanen
I'm a working mom, not a professional athlete, but I am a runner and that's a special club. -- Alison Sweeney
Anybody can be a runner. We were meant to move. We were meant to run. It's the easiest sport. -- Bill Rodgers
Most runners run not because they want to live longer, but because they want to live life to the fullest. -- Haruki Murakami
I was born to be a runner. I simply love to run. It's almost like the faster I go, the easier it becomes. -- Mary Decker
Blade Runner was an incredibly influential movie, in terms of the way that it envisioned what the future was going to look like. -- Charlize Theron
I still bother with runners I call hamburgers. They're never going to run any record times. But they can fulfill their own potential. -- Bill Bowerman
To know you are one with what you are doing, to know that you are a complete athlete, begins with believing you are a runner. -- George A. Sheehan
If you want to become the best runner you can be, start now. Don't spend the rest of your life wondering if you can do it. -- Priscilla Welch
A runners creed: I will win; if I cannot win, I shall be second; if I cannot be second, I shall be third; if I cannot place at all, I shall still do my best. -- Ken Doherty
It's very hard in the beginning to understand that the whole idea is not to beat the other runners. Eventually you learn that the competition is against the little voice inside you that wants you to quit. -- George A. Sheehan
In running it is man against himself, the cruelest of opponents. The other runners are not the real enemies. His adversary lies within him, in his ability with brain and heart to master himself and his emotions. -- Glenn Cunningham
People sometimes sneer at those who run every day, claiming they'll go to any length to live longer. But don't think that's the reason most people run. Most runners run not because they want to live longer, but because they want to live life to the fullest. -- Haruki Murakami
If you run, you are a runner. It doesn't matter how fast or how far. It doesn't matter if today is your first day or if you've been running for twenty years. There is no test to pass, no license to earn, no membership card to get. You just run. -- John Bingham
It is a paradox to say the human body has no 'limit.' There must be a limit to the speed at which men can run. I feel this may be around 3:30 for the mile. However, another paradox remains - if an athlete manages to run 3:30, another runner could be found to marginally improve on that time. -- Roger Bannister
People think I'm crazy to put myself through such torture, though I would argue otherwise. Somewhere along the line we seem to have confused comfort with happiness. Dostoyevsky had it right: 'Suffering is the sole origin of consciousness.' Never are my senses more engaged than when the pain sets in. There is a magic in misery. Just ask any runner. -- Dean Karnazes
Marathon runners set explicit goals. -- Joseph B. Wirthlin
With my runners now, they get two month-long breaks during the year. -- Alberto Salazar
Not all the Greek runners in the original Olympics were totally naked. Some wore shoes. -- Mark Twain
When you run the marathon, you run against the distance, not against the other runners and not against the time. -- Haile Gebrselassie
I admire runners older than I - they are now my heroes. I want to be like them as I grow older. -- Frank Shorter
I know runners who have suffered a tick bite and ended up with Lyme disease. I'll take an angry moose any day. -- Don Kardong
In athletics, older runners tend to go for longer races, but it's the opposite in swimming because your body can't handle the endurance. -- Kirsty Coventry
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! -- Keith Urban
Trust me, my runners aren't going to run one event while looking past it to the second event. When they get on the line for the 10K, that's a do-or-die situation for them. -- Alberto Salazar
Every day of the year where the water is 76, day and night, and the waves roll high, I take my sled, without runners, and coast down the face of the big waves that roll in at Waikiki. -- Duke Kahanamoku
Beginning runners come in all shapes, sizes and pre-existing conditions, so there's no magic formula for determining exactly how much basic running is needed before you start speedwork. Most experts, though, recommend three or four months of preparation. -- Don Kardong
If you look at the sponsors who were in the sport 15 years ago compared to now there are a lot fewer. Why? Because those runners who took drugs tainted the sport. They tainted all of us in it. -- Maurice Greene
You can dominate a game if you dominate on the line... We're just going to have to go out there and work hard and blow people off the ball, and let our runners do what they do best. -- Miles Davis
African runners regularly work out in the United States and Europe, and the International Olympic Committee sends some of the cash from the Games to Olympic committees in poor nations, which use the money to finance their own programs. -- Alex Berenson
Thus the sum of things is ever being reviewed, and mortals dependent one upon another. Some nations increase, others diminish, and in a short space the generations of living creatures are changed and like runners pass on the torch of life. -- Lucretius
If someone tried to take the hierarchy thing too seriously - for example, being lovely to producers but moaning to runners about the tea - that would not be accepted on 'Harry Potter'; someone would pull you aside and have a word. -- Tom Felton
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
Cold is not without its risks to runners, of course, especially ones who don't head south when winter visits their neighborhood. Even pooh-pooh-ers of frozen lungs and lovers of dark jogs over permafrost have been known to be careful about certain hazards. -- Don Kardong
When I go to a web video meeting and look around, at least half the show runners are women. And a lot are actors-cum-writers who are frustrated with the situation of being a woman actor in Hollywood and have decided to create their own show. -- Felicia Day
My introduction to dissociation had been at Kenneth Cooper's clinic in January of 1975. Cooper had assembled a gaggle of top American distance runners and a half dozen top researchers, the intent being to figure out what the difference was - physiologically, biomechanically, psychologically - between elite and subelite runners. -- Don Kardong
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
I don't know a lot of show runners. I mean I met a lot of them in picket lines. I'm not part of a, like, secret society or pickup basketball game. As far as I'm concerned, pick-up basketball games are secret societies. They confuse me. I've never been a networker or I've never been very social. -- Joss Whedon
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
Long slow distance makes long slow runners. -- Jim Bush
Deep down we are all still runners -- Bernd Heinrich
[We] have sex like Kenyan marathon runners. -- Olivia Wilde
We (ultra runners) alternate between depression and stupidity. -- Don Kardong
There is no bad weather, just soft runners. -- Bill Bowerman
It's what runners do. We keep on keeping on -- Amby Burfoot
I am a better hitter with runners in scoring position. -- Robinson Cano
It's better to have ten disorganized players than ten organized runners. -- Roberto Baggio
We are just not made up to be middle distance runners. -- Alberto Juantorena
Sooner or later even the fastest runners have to stand and fight. -- Stephen King
The best runners every year are those who race out way too fast. -- Gerry Lindgren
Is beer good for runners? Sure...if it's the other guy drinking it. -- Jim Fixx
Masters runners fare best when they designate every third week as a recovery week. -- Matt Fitzgerald
It is suicidal for other runners to copy my hill sessions without adequate background. -- Pekka Vasala
I just imagine all the other runners are big spiders, and then I get super scared, -- Usain Bolt
In the race of faith, stay focused upon Christ, not the other runners, nor the spectators. -- Steven J Lawson
The Bears are front-runners. Quitters. They are not a second-half team, just a bunch of cry-babies. -- George Preston Marshall
For me, as for so many runners, there really are no finish lines. Runs end; running doesn't. -- Dean Karnazes
The 3-minute mile goal is to teach runners that the impossible is where goals should be set. -- Gerry Lindgren
We're not home-and-hearth people. We're the adventurers, the buccaneers, the blockade runners. Without challenge, we're only alive. -- Alexander Eliot
Once upon a time, about 20 years ago, runners believed they didn't have to do anything but run -- Amby Burfoot
I always tell beginning runners: Train your brain first. It's much more important than your heart or legs. -- Amby Burfoot
I studied Tom Cruise running in all the Mission Impossibles. I think he's one of the best screen runners. -- Ben Stiller
In a brief space the generations of beings are changed, and, like runners, pass on the torches of life. -- Lucretius
The generations of living things pass in a short time, and like runners hand on the torch of life -- Lucretius
My guess is many top athletes, distance runners included, use performance-enhancing drugs, enough so that the problem must be tackled. -- Bill Rodgers
Overtraining is the biggest problem incurred by runners who lack the experience or discipline to cope with their own enthusiasm. -- Marty Liquori
I think [my kids] are runners. They definitely have the background. I try to help them as much as I can. -- Meb Keflezighi
The only magic in our lives as runners is the magic of consistency. Not every run will make you feel great. -- John Bingham
Even for runners who never make the transition to more sophisticated workouts, easing into speedwork will lead to more enjoyable running. -- Don Kardong
The medal is not for yourself. It couldn't be done without the support and help of my people, runners, and coaches -- Alberto Juantorena
The difference between my world record and many world class runners is mental fortitude. I ran believing in mind over matter. -- Derek Clayton
My thoughts and prayers go out to the thousands of marathon runners, onlookers, city officials and others affected by this senseless tragedy. -- Ed Markey
As runners we all have the same challenges and share the same experience, with the goal to accomplish something and better ourselves. -- Wilson Chebet
Many people are afraid of running because between 30 to 70 percent (depending on how you measure it) of runners get injured every year. -- Daniel Lieberman
I know runners who have suffered a tick bite and ended up with Lyme disease. Ill take an angry moose any day. -- Don Kardong
In my opinion, the best setup guys now have a tougher job than the closers. They pitch more innings, inherit more runners. -- Goose Gossage
There is an expression among even the most advanced runners that getting your shoes on is the hardest part of any workout -- Kathrine Switzer
All runners are tough. Everyone has to have a little fire in them, that even in tough times, can't be turned off. -- Shalane Flanagan
Everyone has stress. A good run may not erase it, but it can reduce the effect and allow runners to gain control. -- Jeff Galloway
When runners win a big race these days, they get a car. When I won a big race, I got a ride. -- Ron Delany
NYC Marathon cancelled: runners are scrambling to find some other meaningless accomplishment to use as a proxy for control over their lives. -- Nils Parker
New record majority of Americans dislike the two corporate front-runners [ Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton] . This is what Lesser Evil leads to. Enough. -- Jill Stein
I am very amazed by the runners out there because I like jog to the garbage can outside sometimes, and I get tired. -- Kacy Catanzaro
Every athlete has doubts. Elite runners in particular are insecure people. You need someone to affirm that what you are doing is right. -- Lynn Jennings
Based on my experience; I would develop fast speed before anything else. Get your young runners so they can run and teach them speed. -- Gerry Lindgren
Well, stealing bases adds some runs but very few, and you lose most of the runs that you gain by having runners caught stealing. -- Bill James
One skill that separates good from almost-good runners is an ability to concentrate for an entire race, whether it is a mile or a marathon. -- Kara Goucher
And, just for good measure, here are a handful of runners up: For now the seventh summer carries you, A wanderer, across the lands and waters. -- Virgil
Ultimately, the best runners are the ones who are willing to work very hard but who have a little bit of a lazy streak in them. -- Benji Durden
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I tell runners... that no matter how inexperienced a runner you may be, there is nothing wrong with being intense. You don't know what you might discover. -- Francie Larrieu Smith
School cross country runs started because the rugby pitches were flooded. There was an alternative: extra studying. This meant there were plenty of runners on sports afternoons. -- Gordon Pirie
In fact, the bandits steal the drinks and assistance provided along the course. Worse, they cross the finish line and mess up the scoring of legitimate runners. -- Joe Henderson
My address book of dealers and private collectors, smugglers and fixers, agents, runners and the peculiar assortment of art hangers-on was longer than anyone else's in the field. -- Thomas Hoving
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
I didn't know I hit that way (.625 with runners in scoring position). Maybe not knowing is my secret. If I chased numbers, maybe I wouldn't have as good results. -- Ichiro Suzuki
Musical theatre goes through cycles. I came in when it was at the absolute height of musical theatre as I remember it. It was the age of the long-runners. -- Ruthie Henshall
While great leaders may be as rare as great runners, great actors, or great painters, everyone has leadership potential, just as everyone has some ability at running, acting, and painting. -- Warren G. Bennis
If I run I lose so much weight, which I need because you're limited on weight when you are a tall driver. And have you seen marathon runners? They're quite skinny. -- Jenson Button

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