Quotes on Inspirational Running

You must realize one thing. In every little village in the world there are great potential champions who only need motivation, development and good exercise evaluation.

As I get, I give. Giving as you get is critical. It has everything to do with being happy for yourself, and making others happy is the cause of making yourself happy, and it’s the cycle of giving and getting.

Almost every part of the mile is tactically important: you can never let down, never stop thinking, and you can be beaten at almost any point. I suppose you could say it is like life.

Somethings don't always work out the way you plan. The main thing is to keep trying, do better next time, and deal with disappointment if it comes.

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

Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit. We are all the same in this notion: The potential for greatness lives within each of us.

I think if you're open-minded, the road will take you where it takes you. If you're closed, you might not get to go where the road is heading.

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

Life is thickly sown with thorns. I know no other remedy than to pass rapidly over them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes the greater is their power to harm us.

But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep.

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.

The most beautiful motion is that which accomplishes the greatest results with the least amount of effort.

Blink and you miss a sprint. The 10,000 meters is lap after lap of waiting. Theatrically, the mile is just the right length: beginning, middle, end, a story unfolding.

Running helps me stay on an even keel and in an optimistic frame of mind.

There is something about the ritual of the race - putting on the number, lining up, being timed - that brings out the best in us.

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

There is an expression among even the most advanced runners that getting your shoes on is the hardest part of any workout

Whether we athletes liked it or not, the 4-minute mile had become rather like an Everest: a challenge to the human spirit, it was a barrier that seemed to defy all attempts to break it, an irksome reminder that men's striving might be in vain.