- "There is an itch in runners."
-Arnold Hano - "Everyone who has run knows that its most important value is in removing tension and allowing a release from whatever other cares the day may bring."
-Jimmy Carter - "The difference between a jogger and a runner is an entry blank."
-George Sheehan - "It's supposed to be hard. If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. The hard...is what makes it great!"
-Tom Hanks in A League of Their Own
- "When it's pouring rain and you're bowling along through the wet, there's satisfaction in knowing you're out there and the others aren't."
-Peter Snell
- "Spend at least some of your training time, and other parts of your day, concentrating on what you are doing in training and visualizing your success."
-Grete Waitz - "Watching the world's best compete fires you up to achieve your own feats of greatness. When it comes to running, participation and spectating go hand in hand."
-Kara Goucher - "Anybody can be a runner. We were meant to move. We were meant to run. It's the easiest sport."
--Bill Rodgers - "Mental will is a muscle that needs exercise, just like the muscles of the body."
-Lynn Jennings - "No one ever drowned in sweat."
-Author Unknown - "We may train or peak for a certain race, but running is a lifetime sport."
-Alberto Salazar - "There's no such thing as bad weather, just soft people."
-Bill Bowerman - "If you want to become the best runner you can be, start now. Don't spend the rest of your life wondering if you can do it."
-Priscilla Welch
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