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Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second.
William James

I would go out and run and run and run on the farm.
Dan O'Brien

I never work out. I think it is boring, so I run.
Izabella Scorupco

I want to run until I can't run.
Bill Rodgers

I like a man who can run faster than I can.
Jane Russell

Anyone who thinks this sounds boring doesn't have a runner's mindset or hasn't chosen the courses well. To a runner in just the right place, each repetition there has a comfortable sameness to it. And each run there also is a little different from any other.
Joe Henderson

Plot routes that start and finish in the same spot, that you can reach quickly and easily from home or office, and that are runnable in all weather and light conditions. These might not be the fastest, easiest or prettiest routes. But you run them them because they're convenient, familiar and safe.
Joe Henderson

The hours, minutes and seconds stand as visible reminders that your effort put them all there. Preserve until your next run, when the watch lets you see how Impermanent your efforts are.
Joe Henderson

The basic rule of racing is that you run - or run-walk if that's what it takes - every step of the way. Anyone who does less and still claims to have 'finished' shames us all.
Joe Henderson

Where did you run today? Now there's a question you don't often hear.
Joe Henderson

For decades I plotted courses that never duplicated themselves. Some were out-and-backs, but a route looks different when you reverse directions. Usually I'd run a single big loop with new scenery every step of the way.
Joe Henderson

Ours is a life of constant reruns. We're always circling back to where we'd we started, then starting all over again. Even if we don't run extra laps that day, we surely will come back for more of the same another day soon.
Joe Henderson

Speed eventually neared its peak. The records forced me to work ever harder to drop a less and less time. These time trials came to feel like races, which are fun to run sporadically but not daily.
Joe Henderson

I was joking but he took responded seriously: 'I would know, and I couldn't live with myself knowing that I'd only run 97 miles or whatever.'
Joe Henderson

It's a simple question: 'How far did you run today?' Runners ask it of each other, and non-runners sometimes feign interest by asking about our distances.
Joe Henderson

I continue to run by the watch for better reasons. These have to do with easing down and making friends with time.
Joe Henderson

Back when running with a reliable watch first became an option, I stepped into a time trap. Each course was measured, each run timed and each a course-record attempt.
Joe Henderson

I believe that every human has a finite number of heart-beats. I don't intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises.
Buzz Aldrin (1930 - )

Many of us spend our whole lives running from feeling with the mistaken belief that you cannot bear the pain. But you have already borne the pain. What you have not done is feel all you are beyond the pain.
Bartholomew

Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!
Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson), "Through the Looking Glass"

A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock

Too many people confine their exercise to jumping to conclusions, running up bills, stretching the truth, bending over backward, lying down on the job, sidestepping responsibility and pushing their luck.
Author Unknown

I think that anyone who comes upon a Nautilus machine suddenly will agree with me that its prototype was clearly invented at some time in history when torture was considered a reasonable alternative to diplomacy.
Anna Quindlen (1953 - )

Exercise alone provides psychological and physical benefits. However, if you also adopt a strategy that engages your mind while you exercise, you can get a whole host of psychological benefits fairly quickly.
James Rippe, M.D.

Mach-S, the speed at which stress can't keep up, is simply forward motion. But it has to be self- propelled. Note that people in cars are still stressed.
Jef Mallett, Frazz, 08-26-05

Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.
Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)

The trouble with jogging is that the ice falls out of your glass.
Martin Mull (1943 - )

Laughter is inner jogging.
Norman Cousins (1912 - 1990)

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

I run because it's my passion, and not just a sport. Every time I walk out the door, I know why I'm going where I'm going and I'm already focused on that special place where I find my peace and solitude. Running, to me, is more than just a physical exercise... it's a consistent reward for victory!
Sasha Azevedo

Ron Burgundy: I won't be able to make it fellas. Veronica and I trying this new fad called uh, "jogging". I believe it's 'jogging' or 'yogging'. it might be a soft "j". I'm not sure but apparently you just run for an extended period of time. It's supposed to be wild.

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.
Jesse Owens

We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort.
Jesse Owens

People come out to see you perform and you've got to give them the best you have within you. The lives of most men are patchwork quilts. Or at best one matching outfit with a closet and laundry bag full of incongruous accumulations. A lifetime of training for just ten seconds.
Jesse Owens

One chance is all you need.
Jesse Owens

If you don't try to win you might as well hold the Olympics in somebody's back yard. The thrill of competing carries with it the thrill of a gold medal. One wants to win to prove himself the best.
Jesse Owens

Friendships born on the field of athletic strife are the real gold of competition. Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.
Jesse Owens

For a time, at least, I was the most famous person in the entire world.
Jesse Owens

Find the good. It's all around you. Find it, showcase it and you'll start believing in it.
Jesse Owens

Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.
Jesse Owens

A lifetime of training for just ten seconds.
Jesse Owens

Satchel Paige: I don't generally like running. I believe in training by rising gently up and down from the bench.

The only reason I would take up jogging is so that I could hear heavy breathing again.
Erma Bombeck

I run on the road, long before I dance under the lights.
Muhammad Ali

No problem is too big to run away from.
Charles M. Schulz

I usually run three or four times a week now. Pretty boring, but it's so worth is. It's done wonders for my mood.
Natalie Portman

I've run the marathon several times, so I definitely don't look like the Great Ancestor!
George Takei

It's like going to the gym everyday. It really is. I work hard on my craft, I sweat a little bit, I run a little bit, I might sprain an ankle every now and them, but it's all good and the more you do it, the more in shape you are and it's like a machine.
Nia Long

I've never been one to run around in Speedos on the beach.
Jason Statham

I used to try to run five miles every other day, which I worked up to and I was doing it, but I was subjected to my own thoughts for forty minutes without any sensory input, and I couldn't stand what I thought.
Peter Steele

I stay in shape by doing Pilates video tape at home. I also run (when I need to prepare for programs) for stamina.
Nancy Kerrigan

Along 4 Mile Run, there was a nice woods down in front of the house. I used to run around there.
Jim Fowler

He'd just run, run all the time, and he walks about, doesn't he, he never stops. I think that they put an odometer on him one day and he walked miles.
Albert Finney

I get back from my run and turn on SportsCenter, then I do my research preparing for football season, and at night I go to games.
Lisa Guerrero

Run away from greatness and greatness will follow you.
Abu Bakr

I think you run a race to win the race, and not just to affect an outcome, because the outcome is in God's hands, not in man's.
Roy Moore

I run to see who has the most guts.
Steve Prefontaine

I have no problem with my hips - I can still do the things that I used to do. I can run, I'm just not the fastest person on the field anymore.
Bo Jackson

I was the type of guy that used to get up in the morning and go out and just out run everybody on the field without stretching or warming up or anything.
Bo Jackson

My sophomore year I placed 2nd, and my junior and senior year - I got smart and piled up enough points between myself and second place where I didn't have to run the mile.
Bo Jackson

I detest running. I couldn't run 10 miles in 10 fricking years without dying.
Robin Wright Penn

I run in the spring and summer months. It clears my head.
Alicia Keys

I stay active, but I can't run because of my knees.
Joe Montana