Quotes of Runner - somelinesforyou

“ That's fine; we runners are, after all, up for a challenge. ”

- Bill Rodgers

“ Last year she ran 16:59 here. She ran faster here than last year and last week. It's a good time on this course and she continued to show that she is one of the better runners in southwestern Indiana. ”

- Ralph Connor

“ They see themselves as athletes and only athletes. ”

- John Murray

“ Never has an athlete's retirement been so welcome. ”

- Lance Armstrong

“ Times were simpler, defenses didn't move as fast, and the quarterback was often the best athlete. Now he's being chased by the best athletes. ”

- Bill Walsh

“ It was nice to see Chocolate outriding the Flat jockey. ”

- Alan King

“ It was a great experience for a kid, because it was a bunch of kids playing on pirate ships and water slides, so looking back on it, it was the fondest experience of my childhood. ”

- Corey Feldman

“ The first time I see a jogger smiling, I'll consider it. ”

- Joan Rivers

“ The difference between a jogger and a runner is an entry blank. ”

- George Sheehan

“ You have to be an intellectual to believe such nonsense. No ordinary man could be such a fool. ”

- George Orwell

“ Dancers are the athletes of God. ”

- Albert Einstein

“ Durability is part of what makes a great athlete. ”

- Bill Russell

“ I know that many people feel that old age is a time to take it easy, but I compare my life now to being the last runner in a relay race. Would you have me slow down as I near the finish line? ”

- Laertius Diogenes

“ I would like to see a fierce Fantasia mixed with Blade Runner, Lord of the Rings, and Star Wars all in one. That's the kind of movies I want to make. ”

- Michelle Rodriguez

“ When you adjust for the weather, it's the same effort required by every runner-or racer, so the more you understand the conditions, perhaps the more mental preparation plays a role. ”

- Bill Rodgers

“ The toughest question has always been, "How do you get your ideas?" How do you answer that? It's like asking runners how they run, or singers how they sing. They just do it! ”

- Lynn Johnston

“ Being a runner means you are now free to win and lose and live life to its fullest. ”

- Bill Rodgers

“ I used to be pretty reckless. When I was a runner for a production company, I drove a massive 16 seater van. I was only 18. I mean I look young now, but then I looked about 12. ”

- Gail Porter

“ With his wealth of experience, and the knowledge he's obviously accumulated through the years, Emmitt Smith would be a much smarter runner at this point of his career. ”

- Al Michaels

“ If you want to be a successful runner, you have to consider everything. It's no good just thinking about endurance and not to develop fine speed. ”

- Arthur Lydiard

“ If Beethoven and Bach hooked up with Mozart and made a band, they could be a distant runner up to The D. ”

- Jack Black

“ The lame man who keeps the right road outstrips the runner who takes a wrong one… the more active and swift the latter is, the further he will go astray. ”

- Francis Bacon

“ I was born to be a runner. I simply love to run. It's almost like the faster I go, the easier it becomes. ”

- Mary Decker Slaney

“ You can point out to people how to make what they do better, but you can't teach somebody how to be a great writer, just like you can't teach somebody how to be a fast runner. You can work on their technique, but either they're fast or they're not; either they can write or they can't. ”

- Richard Price

“ One time I snuck a ball on with me and when I went to winding up, I threw one of them balls to first and one to second. I was so smooth I picked off both runners and fanned the batter without that ump or the other team even knowing it. ”

- Satchel Paige

“ I have always been a huge fan of Ridley Scott and certainly when I was a kid. Alien, Blade Runner just blew me away because they created these extraordinary worlds that were just completely emersive. I was also an enormous Stanley Kubrick fan for similar reasons. ”

- Christopher Nolan

“ Thus the sum of things is ever being reviewed, and mortals dependent one upon another. Some nations increase, others diminish, and in a short space the generations of living creatures are changed and like runners pass on the torch of life. ”

- Lucretius

“ The base paths belonged to me, the runner. The rules gave me the right. I always went into a bag full speed, feet first. I had sharp spikes on my shoes. If the baseman stood where he had no business to be and got hurt, that was his fault. ”

- Ty Cobb

“ You cannot rule the world El-ahrairah, for I will not have it so. All the world will be your enemy, Prince With a Thousand Enemies. And whenever they catch you, they will kill you. But first, they must catch you - digger, listener, runner, Prince with the swift warning… ”

- Richard Adams

“ High culture is nothing but a child of that European perversion called history, the obsession we have with going forward, with considering the sequence of generations a relay race in which everyone surpasses his predecessor, only to be surpassed by his successor… ”

- Milan Kundera
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