Marathon Quotes

• A marathon is a like a roller coaster... You might toss your cookies, jump for joy, pass out, or have to close your eyes and just breathe. Even when it is going smooth, all of a sudden there can be a drop or even better, an acceleration. Hang on, stick to your plan, and enjoy every step of the way. I can't wait to do another....or maybe ten! Get after it!

  

  Carrie Tollefson
  • Enjoy
  • Plan
  • Stick

• Racing a marathon is a true and simple way to test the human spirit. Whether it goes perfectly or poorly you will certainly learn something about yourself and be a better person for having tackled the distance.

  

  Blake Russell
  • Learn
  • Distance
  • Human Spirit

• Your vision of your future will help you press forward. Take a few minutes to envision where you want to be in one year or two or five. Then take action to prepare yourselves. People don’t just run a marathon when they decide to do it. They must train daily, slowly building stamina and endurance to run the 26.2-mile distance. So it is with life. It is daily diligence with prayer and scripture study that will help you reach your goals. Your daily decisions will influence generations.

  

  Elaine S. Dalton
  • Help
  • Vision
  • Goals

• I don't smoke, don't drink much, and go to the gym five times a week. I live a healthy lifestyle and feel great. I can run a marathon, you know.

  

  Sarah Michelle Gellar
  • Healthy
  • Gym
  • Drink

• The marathon never ceases to be a race of joy, a race of wonder.

  

  Hal Higdon
  • Running
  • Joy
  • Wonder

• I learned that people in wheelchairs are allowed to have marathons … which, to me, seems like cheating, but what are you gonna say?

  

  Sarah Silverman
  • People
  • Funny
  • Humor

• The race of life is a marathon, not a sprint.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • Life
  • Race
  • Sprint

• As with marathon runs and lengths of toilet paper, there had to be standards to measure up to.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Measure
  • Marathon
  • Runs

• Life is a marathon, not a sprint. It's about taking a bigger-picture approach.

  

  Ivanka Trump
  • Life
  • Approach
  • Marathon

• TV is, as I'm discovering now, a marathon. You have to keep going and going and going.

  

  Jonathan Nolan
  • Television
  • Marathon
  • Keep Going

• The pride in finishing a marathon is much greater than all the pain endured during the marathon.

  

  Hal Higdon
  • Running
  • Pain
  • Pride

• This is the time of year you wait for, and we're right there. Guys who have never been in the playoffs before will feel that pressure. We're approaching the finish line of an 82-game season. It now goes from a marathon to a sprint, and when you're bunched up with other teams like we are, it's not talent that will get you there, but commitment.

  

  Bob Hartley
  • Pressure
  • Season
  • Teams

• There are times when you run a marathon and you wonder, Why am I doing this? But you take a drink of water, and around the next bend, you get your wind back, remember the finish line, and keep going.

  

  Steve Jobs
  • Times
  • Marathon

• It can be said that the first half of the marathon is 20 miles long; the second half, 6.2 more.

  

  Hal Higdon
  • Marathon

• I think psychedelics are sort of like doing calisthenics in preparation for the marathon at the end of time.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Preparation
  • Marathon
  • Calisthenics

• This wasn’t just an attack against the Boston Marathon... It was an attack against the American public and our democratic use of the streets. We have used our public roadways for annual parades, protest marches, presidential inaugurations, marathons, and all manner of other events. The roads belong to us, and their use represents an important part of our free and democratic tradition.

  

  Amby Burfoot
  • Important
  • Tradition
  • Presidential

• Finish: Even if you run a slower than expected time, you succeed in any marathon when you finish.

  

  Hal Higdon
  • Running
  • Succeed
  • Expected

• In my bright, utopian future world, they will hand out college educations like cups of water at the end of the L.A. Marathon.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • World
  • College
  • Water

• I enter myself in races. I did a triathlon, and I have done a marathon a couple of times.

  

  Stephen Mangan
  • Marathon
  • Races
  • Triathlons

• There is a unique energy surrounding the Boston Marathon that you can't help but feel. It includes every runner and every person along the course. It brings every person there together as one.

  

  Amy Hastings
  • Energy
  • Marathon
  • Brings

• Writing a book is like running a marathon. You need to be fit to do it, mentally and, as far as possible, physically.

  

  Catherine Mayer
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Running

• Just as you can't become a marathon runner by watching marathons on TV, likewise for science, you have to go through the thought processes of doing science and not just watch your instructor do it.

  

  Eric Mazur
  • Science
  • Runner
  • Instructor

• A daily creative project is like a marathon. It's a ridiculously daunting task, but making an original creation every day gives you an incredible sense of accomplishment. It also forces you to push beyond your mental and physical barriers (especially the ones you've erected for yourself). You'll be amazed at what you produce and what you learn about yourself in the process.

  

  Noah Scalin
  • Project
  • Barriers
  • Marathon

• I have several close friends who have run marathons, a word that is actually derived from two Swahili words: mara, which means 'to die a horrible death', and thon, which means 'for a stupid T-shirt.' Look it up.

  

  Celia Rivenbark
  • Running
  • Mean
  • Stupid

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