Quotes on Inspirational Runner

The miracle isn't that I finished. The miracle is that I had the courage to start.

Running is the greatest metaphor for life, because you get out of it what you put into it.

Methinks that the moment my legs began to move, my thoughts began to flow.

Human beings are made up of flesh and blood, and a miracle fiber called courage.

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 it must run faster than the slowest gazelle, or it will starve. It doesn't matter whether you're the lion or a gazelle-when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.

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.

Gold medals aren't really made of gold. They're made of sweat, determination, and a hard-to-find alloy called guts.

A lot of people run a race to see who is fastest. I run to see who has the most guts, who can punish himself into exhausting pace, and then at the end, punish himself even more.

Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.

If you become restless, speed up. If you become winded, slow down. You climb the mountain in an equilibrium between restlessness and exhaustion.

Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.

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.

Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.

There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

When you run the marathon, you run against the distance, not against the other runners and not against the time.

There's no such thing as bad weather, only inappropriate clothing

There's no such thing as bad weather - only the wrong clothes.