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Marathon Quotes

When you run the marathon, you run against the distance, not against the other runners and not against the time.

– Haile Gebrselassie

I have to change a lot of things before I become a good marathon runner.

– Haile Gebrselassie

I’ve been running a full marathon every year for more than 20 years, and my record is getting worse. Getting older, getting worse. It’s natural.

– Haruki Murakami

I used to run a full marathon in three hours and 25 or 26 minutes. Not any more.

– Haruki Murakami

What could be funnier than a fat person trying to run a marathon?

– Jo Brand

Running a marathon is something I’ve always wanted to do.

– Jennie Finch

It’s kind of like a midlife crisis kind of thing. When you turn 40, you have to run the marathon, while all the parts still work properly.

– Joe Bastianich

We didn’t crumble after 9/11. We didn’t falter after the Boston Marathon. But we’re America. Americans will never, ever stand down. We endure. We overcome. We own the finish line.

– Joe Biden

I’m just trying to spread the word and upturn the myth that actually you should be resting after cancer treatment. You shouldn’t; you should be getting out and doing any kind of exercise you can. You don’t have to run a marathon, but you just have to up your activity levels.

– Jo Brand

Marathon runners set explicit goals.

– Joseph B. Wirthlin

Tamerlan Tsarnaev is telling no tales. The older of the two brothers who committed the Boston Marathon bombings was likely the one who planned the attack, but when he died in a shootout with police just days after the blasts, his thoughts and motivations vanished with him.

– Jeffrey Kluger

I might have to do the London Marathon. I like crowds, so that is why I like the big marathons.

– Cara Buono

I ran my fastest marathon in the rain.

– Bill Rodgers

While Fidel Castro used to deliver his marathon seven-hour speeches in Havana, Cubans used to joke that if Spanish lacked a future tense, their leader would be speechless. He was only fluent in broken promises, they lamented.

– Brin-Jonathan Butler

The starting line of the New York Marathon is kind of like a giant time bomb behind you about to go off. It is the most spectacular start in sport.

– Bill Rodgers

I trained for the marathon. I run along the East River, and I used to run all the way down Manhattan, up the West Side and back home.

– Amy Carlson

I happen to be a huge ‘Lord of the Rings’ fan. I do an annual marathon of the extended editions.

– Anna Kendrick

My husband and I both have our bucket lists. Running a marathon was on mine.

– Alison Sweeney

Giving birth was probably the most empowering thing I’ve ever done physically. I was like, ‘Now I can do anything. I can run a marathon… I can run three marathons!’

– Christy Turlington

I can now check Oregon off the ‘marathon in every state list.’

– Brad Feld

The marathon can humble you.

– Bill Rodgers

I always say if the marathon is a part-time interest, you will only get part-time results.

– Bill Rodgers

When I went to the starting line of the 1976 Olympic marathon in Montreal, it was with the unsettling conviction that some of my competitors were cheaters.

– Don Kardong

I’ve run the marathon several times, so I definitely don’t look like the Great Ancestor!

– George Takei

Humans are built for endurance, not speed. We’re awful sprinters compared to every other animal. We try to run our races as if they were speed races, but they are not. They’re endurance races. Even a marathon, the way it’s run now, it’s not an endurance contest.

– Christopher McDougall

Playing a three-hour Rush show is like running a marathon while solving equations.

– Neil Peart

My goal is to break three hours in a marathon.

– Frank Shorter

A typical day for me on tour is a marathon – it’s like five days rolled into one.

– Dierks Bentley

I look at directing as a sporting event. It’s a race, a marathon. It’s great when it clicks, which is why I push my crews so hard so we can excel.

– Michael Bay

There’s always somebody doing something more extreme than you are. It used to be that if you ran the marathon, that was the end of it.

– Don Kardong

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