"Life is short. Running makes it seem longer."
Baron Hansen
"I run so my goals in life will continue to get bigger instead of my belly."
Bill Kirby
"Finland has produced so many brilliant distance runners because back home it costs $2.50 a gallon for gas."
Esa Tikkannen
"Good things come slow. Especially in distance running."
Bill Dellinger
Step one to running a marathon: You run. There is no step two.
-Barney Stinson (How I Met Your Mother)
"It's unnatural for people to run around the city streets unless they are thieves or victims. It makes people nervous to see someone running. I know that when I see someone running on my street, my instincts tell me to let the dog go after him."
Mike Royko
"It is true that speed kills. In distance running, it kills anyone who does not have it."
Brooks Johnson
"There are many challenges to long distance running, but one of the greatest is the question of where to put one’s house keys."
Gabrielle Zevin
"The trouble with jogging is that the ice falls out of your glass."
Martin Mull
"Your sweat is your fat crying. Keep it up."
From a runner's T-shirt
"It's a hill. Get over it."
From a runner's T-shirt
"If the hill has its own name, then it's probably a pretty tough hill."
Marty Stern
“Running a marathon takes balls, other sports just play with them.” – Unknown
"I believe that the good Lord gave us a finite number of heartbeats and I'm damned if I'm going to use up mine running up and down a street."
Neil Armstrong
"I love running cross country. On a track, I feel like a hamster."
Robin Williams
“Marathoners: Life is too easy. I must find a way to make it much much harder.”
-Glennon Doyle, best-selling author
"Runner's logic: I'm tired. Let me go for a run."
Unknown
"How do you know if someone ran a marathon? Don’t worry, they’ll tell you."
Jimmy Fallon
"Run. Because zombies will eat the untrained ones first."
From the Zombie Apocalypse Survival Guide
"A good run is like a cup of coffee. I'm much nicer after I've had one."
Unknown