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Stadiums are for spectators. We runners have nature and that is much better.
--Juha Vaatainen
 
Running is real and relatively simple…but it ain't easy.
--Mark Will-Weber

 

Running is the greatest metaphor for life, because you get out of it what you put into it

--Oprah Winfrey

 

Trust in yourself. Your perceptions are often more accurate then you are willing to believe.

--Claudia Black

 

We can do anything we want as long as we stick to it long enough.

--Helen Keller

 

A knowledge of the path cannot be substituted for putting one foot in front of the other.

--M.C.Richards

 

It is good to have an end to journey toward;but it is the journey that matters, in the end.
--Ursula LeGuin

 

"We forget our bodies to the benefit of mechanical leisure. We act continuously with our brain, but we no longer use our bodies, our limbs. It is the Africans who possess this vitality, this muscular youth, this thirst for physical action which we are lacking. We have a magnificent motor at our disposal, but we no longer know how to use it

--Emil Zatopek

 

The best moments usually occur when a person’s body or mind is stretched to its limits in a voluntary effort to accomplish something difficult and worthwhile.
--Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

 

You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.
--Francis de Sales

 

Running is one the best solutions to a clear mind.

--Sasha Azevedo