"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
"If the hill has its own name, then it's probably a pretty tough hill."
Marty Stern
"The only reason I would take up jogging is so that I could hear heavy breathing again."
Erma Bombeck
"A good run is like a cup of coffee. I'm much nicer after I've had one."
Unknown
"Running makes me feel less like I want to kill people."
From a runner's T-shirt
"Good things come slow. Especially in distance running."
Bill Dellinger
"No doubt a brain and some shoes are essential for marathon success. Although if it comes down to a choice, pick the shoes. More people finish marathons with no brains than with no shoes."
Don Kardong
“Marathoners: Life is too easy. I must find a way to make it much much harder.”
-Glennon Doyle, best-selling author
"Life is short. Running makes it seem longer."
Baron Hansen
“Running a marathon takes balls, other sports just play with them.” – Unknown
"Remember, the second most important thing to choosing the right shoe is choosing the left one."
Unknown
"The trouble with jogging is that the ice falls out of your glass."
Martin Mull
"Slow runners make fast runners look good. Thank you."
From the back of a T-shirt
"Run like hell and get the agony over with."
Clarence DeMar
"If God invented marathons to keep people from doing anything more stupid, the triathlon must have taken him completely by surprise."
P.Z. Pearce
"It's rude to count people as you pass them. Out loud."
From an Adidas ad
“I go running when I have to. Like when the ice cream truck is doing sixty.” – Wendy Liebman
"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
“Running: Cheaper than therapy.”
-seen on runner’s T-shirt
"Finland has produced so many brilliant distance runners because back home it costs $2.50 a gallon for gas."
Esa Tikkannen