Running Quotes

Watch athletes like Usain Bolt or Carl Lewis scorch the tracks. What inspires them to run so fast? Is it sheer will power or is it hunger for success? Read these running quotes and you will find the inspiration to put on your running shoes.

• Anonymous
  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 that 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.
  
  
• T. Alan Armstrong
  Champions do not become champions when they win the event, but in the hours, weeks, months and years they spend preparing for it. The victorious performance itself is merely the demonstration of their championship character.
  
  
• John Bryant
  My feeling is that any day I am too busy to run is a day that I am too busy.
  
  
• Sebastian Coe
  The great thing about athletics is that it's like poker, sometimes you know what's in your hand and it may be a load of rubbish, but you've got to keep up the front.
  
  
• Clarence DeMar
  Run like hell and get the agony over with.
  
  
• Gatorade
  You have a choice. You can throw in the towel, or you can use it to wipe the sweat off of your face.
  
  
• Brooks Johnson
  It is true that speed kills. In distance running, it kills anyone who does not have it.
  
  
• Juha Vaatainen
  Stadiums are for spectators. We runners have nature and that is much better.
  
  
• Mark Will-Weber
  Running is real and relatively simple, but it ain't easy.
  
  
• Jesse Owens
  I always loved running. It was something you could do by yourself, and under your own power. You could go in any direction, fast or slow as you wanted, fighting the wind if you felt like it, seeking out new sights just on the strength of your feet and the courage of your lungs.
  
  
• Charles Schulz
  Jogging is very beneficial. It's good for your legs and your feet. It's also very good for the ground. It makes it feel needed.
  
  
• Steve Prefontaine
  Most people run a race to see who is fastest. I run a race to see who has the most guts.
  
  
• Sam Mussabini
  Only think of two things -- the gun and the tape. When you hear the one, just run like hell until you break the other.
  
  
• Esa Tikkannen
  Finland has produced so many brilliant distance runners because back home it costs $2.50 a gallon for gas.
  
  
• George Sheehan
  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. Find your own play, your own self-renewing compulsion, and you will become the person you are meant to be.
  
  
• Jimmy Carter
  Everyone who has run knows that its most important value is in removing tension and allowing a release from whatever other cares the day may bring.
  
  
• Arnold Hano
  There is an itch in runners.
  
  
• Rollie Geiger
  Cross Country is like poker. You have to be holding five good cards all the time.
  
  
• Michelle Dekkers
  I prefer running without shoes. My toes didn't get cold. Besides, if I'm in front from the start, no one can step on them.
  
  
• George Patton
  Human beings are made up of flesh and blood, and a miracle fiber called courage.