"If the hill has its own name, then it's probably a pretty tough hill."
Marty Stern
"It is true that speed kills. In distance running, it kills anyone who does not have it."
Brooks Johnson
"Start slow, then taper off."
Walt Stack
"Good things come slow. Especially in distance running."
Bill Dellinger
“Marathoners: Life is too easy. I must find a way to make it much much harder.”
-Glennon Doyle, best-selling author
"How do you know if someone ran a marathon? Don’t worry, they’ll tell you."
Jimmy Fallon
"If God invented marathons to keep people from doing anything more stupid, the triathlon must have taken him completely by surprise."
P.Z. Pearce
"I don't believe in jogging. It extending your life, but by about the same amount of time you spend jogging."
Marshall Brickman
“I go running when I have to. Like when the ice cream truck is doing sixty.” – Wendy Liebman
"It's rude to count people as you pass them. Out loud."
From an Adidas ad
"If you run 100 miles a week, you can eat anything you want. Why? Because (a) you'll burn all the calories you consume, (b) you deserve it, and (c) you'll be injured soon and back on a restricted diet anyway."
Don Kardong
"I don't think jogging is healthy, especially morning jogging. If morning joggers knew how tempting they looked to morning motorists, they would stay home and do sit-ups."
Rita Rudner
"Run like you stole something."
Unknown
“Don’t be a jogger, they’re the one’s who find dead bodies.” – Amanda Brooks
"A good run is like a cup of coffee. I'm much nicer after I've had one."
Unknown
"Marathon runners with bad shoes suffer the agony of de feet."
Unknown
"I love running cross country. On a track, I feel like a hamster."
Robin Williams
"The trouble with jogging is that by the time you realize you're not in shape for it, it's too far to walk back."
Franklin Jones
"Run like hell and get the agony over with."
Clarence DeMar
"Running makes me feel less like I want to kill people."
From a runner's T-shirt