Running Quotes - page 3

I know many married men, I even know a few happily married men, but I don't know one who wouldn't fall down the first open coal hole running after the first pretty girl who gave him a wink. (George Jean Nathan)
Some seek the comfort of their therapist's office, other head to the corner pub and dive into a pint, but I chose running as my therapy. View quote
Dean Karnazes
Running is about finding your inner peace, and so is a life well lived. View quote
Dean Karnazes
It doesn't matter what people tell you. It doesn't matter what they might say. Sometimes you have to leave home. Sometimes, running away means you're headed in the exact right direction. View quote
Alice Hoffman
There's something so universal about that sensation, the way running unites our two most primal impulses: fear and pleasure. We run when we're scared, we run when we're ecstatic, we run away from our problems and run around for a good time. View quote
Christopher McDougall
You don't stop running because you get old, you get old because you stop running. View quote
Christopher McDougall
I have the idea that running shoes are based on a kind of cult idea - that our feet are flawed and we need shoes to correct those flaws. The shoe companies are in the business of selling shoes. But there's no evidence from running shoe manufacturers that they're right. There's no scientific data that running shoes reduce injury. View quote
Christopher McDougall
Perhaps all our troubles - all the violence, obesity, illness, depression, and greed we can't overcome - began when we stopped living as Running People. Deny your nature, and it will erupt in some other, uglier way. View quote
Christopher McDougall
We wouldn't be alive without love we wouldn't have survived without running maybe we shouldn't be surprised that getting better at one could make you better at the other. View quote
Christopher McDougall
We're designed for persistence hunting, which is a mix of running and walking. What's built into that kind of running is a sense of pleasure. You are designed and built and perfect for this activity, and it should be enjoyable and fun. View quote
Christopher McDougall
Hitting the ball was easy. Running around the bases was the tough part. (Mickey Mantle)
After I hit a home run I had a habit of running the bases with my head down. I figured the pitcher already felt bad enough without me showing him up rounding the bases. View quote
Mickey Mantle
My workout was running down fly balls, stealing a base, or running for my life on the football field. View quote
Bo Jackson
And after I make a lot of money, I'll be able to afford running for office. View quote
Christy Carlson Romano
But when alcohol comes in, start running. Because there's a demon there, and it goes back to her childhood. View quote
David Gest
Experience has taught me how important it is to just keep going, focusing on running fast and relaxed. Eventually it passes and the flow returns. It's part of racing. View quote
Frank Shorter
For the novice runner, I'd say to give yourself at least 2 months of consistently running several times a week at a conversational pace before deciding whether you want to stick with it. Consistency is the most important aspect of training at this point. View quote
Frank Shorter
Running away will never make you free. View quote
Kenny Loggins
It had run as a column - I had worked at the paper since 1976, but the column had been running for 13 years, and I think it was a strong column, criticizing the war when the paper was supporting it. View quote
Robert Scheer
In Hawaii, we go to this wonderful place, all families. My wife and I go directly from breakfast to a beach chair where we read all day. My daughter goes from water to pool to running around with friends she meets, some of whom are regulars there. View quote
Stephen Collins
And it took me, since I was 17 and left home, running from God, to now, as a 30-year-old man, when I honestly feel like I've come full circle and my heart's finally in the right place. (Scott Stapp)
Coming from a farming background, I saw nothing out of the ordinary in running barefoot, although it seemed to startle the rest of the athletics world. I have always enjoyed going barefoot and when I was growing up I seldom wore shoes, even when I went into town. View quote
Zola Budd
We, Seth, Emperor of Azania, Chief of Chiefs of Sakuyu, Lord of Wanda and Tyrant of the Seas, Bachelor of the Arts of Oxford University, being in this the twenty-fourth year of our life, summoned by the wisdom of Almighty God and the unanimous voice of our people to the throne of our ancestors, do hereby proclaim..." Seth paused in his dictation and gazed out across the harbour where in the fresh breeze of early morning the last dhow was setting sail for the open sea. "Rats," he said; "stinking curs. They are all running away. View quote
Evelyn Waugh
The older I get, the surer I am that I'm not running the show. View quote
Leonard Cohen
It is as if my life were magically run by two electric currents: joyous positive and despairing negative--which ever is running at the moment dominates my life, floods it. View quote
Sylvia Plath