Great Sport Quotes

Running

The Race is not always to the swift, but to those who keep running. - Unknown

May your best miles be covered on Foot – Big Peach Running Company

"Runners just do it - they run for the finish line even if someone else has reached it first."
-Nike

"I'm going to go out a winner if I have to find a high school race to win my last race." - Johnny Gray

"It hurts up to a point and then it doesn't get any worse." - Ann Trason

"You have to forget your last marathon before you try another. Your mind can't know what's coming." - Frank Shorter

Nothing’s better than the wind at your back, the sun in front of you and your friend beside you – A runner’s creed

"The will to win means nothing if you haven't the will to prepare." - Juma Ikangaa, 1989 NYC Marathon winner

"Every morning in Africa a gazelle wakes up. It knows it must move faster than the lion or it will not survive. Every morning a lion wakes up and it knows it must move faster than the slowest gazelle or it will starve. It doesn't matter if you are the lion or the gazelle, when the sun comes up, you better be moving." - Maurice Greene (attributed to Roger Bannister shortly after running the first sub-4 mile)

"I like running because it's a challenge. If you run hard, there's the pain - and you've got to work your way through the pain. You know, lately it seems all you hear is? Don't overdo it' and? Don't push yourself.' Well, I think that's a lot of bull. If you push the human body, it will respond." - Bob Clarke, Philadelphia Flyers general manager, NHL Hall of Fame.

"We are different, in essence, from other men. If you want to win something, run 100 meters. If you want to experience something, run a marathon." -Emil Zatopek

"The marathon's about being in contention over the last 10K. That's when it's about what you have in your core. You have run all the strength, all the superficial fitness out of yourself, and it really comes down to what's left inside you. To be able to draw deep and pull something out of yourself is one of the most tremendous things about the marathon." - Rob de Castella

To describe the agony of a marathon to someone who's never run it is like trying to explain color to someone who was born blind. Jerome Drayton

Marathon running is a terrible experience: monotonous, heavy, and exhausting.
Veikko Karvonen, 1954 European and Boston Marathon Champ

I'm never going to run this again. Grete Waitz after winning her first of nine New York City marathons

The marathon can humble you. Bill Rodgers

I am too tired, even to be happy. Gelindo Bordin, Italy, immediately after winning the Olympic Marathon in Seoul

I was unable to walk for a whole week after that, so much did the race take out of me. But it was the most pleasant exhaustion I have ever known. Emil Zatopek's description of the Olympic Marathon win in Helsinki

Get going. Get up and walk if you have to, but finish the damned race. Ron Hill to Jerome Drayton during the 1970 Boston Marathon

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. Sebastian Coe

Running is like mouthwash; if you can feel the burn, its working. Brian Tackett

Life is short... running makes it seem longer. Baron Hansen

Running a marathon is 90% mental toughness. The rest is in your head - unknown

When people ask me why I run, I tell them, there's not really a reason, it's just the adrenalin when you start, and the feeling when you cross that finish line, and know that you are a winner no matter what place you got. Courtney Parsons

People don't know why we run, but it's the hard work you put into practice, and the reward you get from the race. Courtney Parsons

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

Running is one the best solutions to a clear mind. Sasha Azevedo

My greatest ideas stem from running. Sasha Azevedo

Every run is a great run! Sasha Azevedo

People ask why I run. I say, "If you have to ask, you will never understand". It is something only those select few know. Those who put themselves through pain, but know, deep down, how good it really feels. Erin Leonard

My sport is your team’s punishment

If you start to feel good during a marathon, don’t worry, that will pass

Yes, it really is hard. Yes, I had to train a lot. Yes, I know it is hard on the body. Yes, I know I am crazy and every marathon is 26.2 miles

"No doubt a brain and some shoes are essential for marathon success, although if it comes down to a choice, pick the shoes. More people finish marathons with no brains than with no shoes." Don Kardong

"Thank God, it's over." Neil Cusack, 1974 marathon winner

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. ~Charles Schulz, Peanuts



If God invented marathons to keep people from doing anything more stupid, the triathlon must have taken Him completely by surprise. ~P.Z. Pearce

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

The difference between a jogger and a runner is an entry blank. ~George Sheehan

I don't think jogging is healthy, especially morning jogging. If morning joggers knew how tempting they looked to morning motorists, they would stay home and do sit-ups. ~Rita Rudner

The Marathon can humble you. – Bill Rodgers

The journey is more important than the destination.



Walking

If you are seeking creative ideas, go out walking. Angels whisper to a man when he goes for a walk. ~Raymond Inmon

A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good for an unhappy but otherwise healthy adult than all the medicine and psychology in the world. ~Paul Dudley White

I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in. ~John Muir, 1913, in L.M. Wolfe, ed., John Muir, John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir, 1938

Me thinks that the moment my legs begin to move, my thoughts begin to flow. ~Henry David Thoreau

Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time. ~Steven Wright
I have two doctors, my left leg and my right. ~G.M. Trevelyan

My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing. ~Aldous Huxley

When you have worn out your shoes, the strength of the shoe leather has passed into the fiber of your body. I measure your health by the number of shoes and hats and clothes you have worn out. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake. ~Wallace Stevens

After a day's walk everything has twice its usual value. ~George Macauley Trevelyan

I dream of hiking into my old age. ~Marlyn Doan

Thoughts come clearly while one walks. ~Thomas Mann

In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks. ~John Muir

Above all, do not lose your desire to walk. Every day I walk myself into a state of well-being and walk away from every illness. I have walked myself into my best thoughts, and I know of no thought so burdensome that one cannot walk away from it. ~Soren Kierkegaard

Nothing like a nighttime stroll to give you ideas. ~J.K. Rowling, "The Egg and The Eye," Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, 2000, spoken by the character Mad-Eye Moody

People say that losing weight is no walk in the park. When I hear that I think, yeah, that's the problem. ~Chris Adams

Make your feet your friend. ~J.M. Barrie

He who limps is still walking. ~Stanislaw J. Lec

Walking isn't a lost art - one must, by some means, get to the garage. ~Evan Esar

Your body is built for walking. ~Gary Yanker

The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk. ~Jacqueline Schiff

We live in a fast-paced society. Walking slows us down. ~Robert Sweetgall

Walking: the most ancient exercise and still the best modern exercise. ~Carrie Latet

An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day. ~Henry David Thoreau

If you pick 'em up, O Lord, I'll put 'em down. ~Author Unknown, "Prayer of the Tired Walker"

Walking is good for solving problems - it's like the feet are little psychiatrists. ~Pepper Giardino

If I could not walk far and fast, I think I should just explode and perish. ~Charles Dickens

Walking takes longer... than any other known form of locomotion except crawling. Thus it stretches time and prolongs life. Life is already too short to waste on speed. ~Edward Abbey, "Walking"

My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-three today and we don't know where the hell she is. ~Ellen DeGeneres

Walking gets the feet moving, the blood moving, the mind moving. And movement is life. ~Carrie Latet

If you want to forget all your other troubles, wear too tight shoes. ~The Houghton Line, November 1965

Don't let people drive you crazy when you know it's in walking distance. ~Author Unknown



Fitness



"There's something wrong with a society that drives a car to work out in a gym." Bill Nye The Science Guy

"Workouts are like brushing my teeth; I don't think about them, I just do them. The decision has already been made." - Patti Sue Plumer, U.S. Olympian

Those who think they have not time for bodily exercise will sooner or later have to find time for illness. ~Edward Stanley


If it weren't for the fact that the TV set and the refrigerator are so far apart, some of us wouldn't get any exercise at all. ~Joey Adams


Lack of activity destroys the good condition of every human being, while movement and methodical physical exercise save it and preserve it. ~Plato


Fitness - if it came in a bottle, everybody would have a great body. ~Cher

There is a necessity for a regulating discipline of exercise that, whilst evoking the human energies, will not suffer them to be wasted. ~Thomas de Quincey


The only exercise some people get is jumping to conclusions, running down their friends, side-stepping responsibility, and pushing their luck! ~Author Unknown


Movement is a medicine for creating change in a person's physical, emotional, and mental states. ~Carol Welch


A man's health can be judged by which he takes two at a time - pills or stairs. ~Joan Welsh

The word aerobics came about when the gym instructors got together and said, "If we're going to charge $10 an hour, we can't call it jumping up and down." ~Rita Rudner


I have to exercise in the morning before my brain figures out what I'm doing. ~Marsha Doble


A bear, however hard he tries, grows tubby without exercise. ~A.A. Milne


I get my exercise acting as pallbearer to my friends who exercise. ~Chauncey Depew, also sometimes attributed in slightly different wording to Mark Twain


I really don't think I need buns of steel. I'd be happy with buns of cinnamon. ~Ellen DeGeneres


Commit to be fit. ~Author Unknown

Any workout which does not involve a certain minimum of danger or responsibility does not improve the body - it just wears it out. ~Norman Mailer


Exercise is a dirty word. Every time I hear it, I wash my mouth out with chocolate. ~Author Unknown


An hour of basketball feels like 15 minutes. An hour on a treadmill feels like a weekend in traffic school. ~David Walters


It is exercise alone that supports the spirits, and keeps the mind in vigor. ~Marcus Tullius Cicero


I believe that the Good Lord gave us a finite number of heartbeats and I'm damned if I'm going to use up mine running up and down a street. ~Neil Armstrong on jogging, in an interview with Walter Cronkite


If your dog is fat, you're not getting enough exercise. ~Author Unknown


I am pushing sixty. That is enough exercise for me. ~Mark Twain


Exercise is the yuppie version of bulimia. ~Barbara Ehrenreich


Whenever I feel like exercise, I lie down until the feeling passes. ~Robert M. Hutchins

My idea of exercise is a good brisk sit. ~Phyllis Diller

Those who think they have not time for bodily exercise will sooner or later have to find time for illness – Edward Stanley Earl of Derby


Aerobics: a series of strenuous exercises which help convert fats, sugars, and starches into aches, pains, and cramps. ~Author Unknown

I consider exercise vulgar. It makes people smell. ~Alec Yuill Thornton

Other

Doubt can only be removed by action – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible." - Doug Larson

"The woods are lovely dark and deep, but I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep." - Robert Frost

"I have met my hero, and he is me." - George Sheehan

"Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired." - Jules Renard

"We can't all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by." - Will Rogers