Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Don Bosco: Villainy
“Only a villain would treat an innocent priest as though he were a criminal.” —Don Bosco.
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Nina Kuscik: Running
“Running gives freedom. When you run you can determine your own tempo. You can choose your own course and think whatever you want. Nobody tells you what to do.“ Nina Kuscik, marathoner
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Jeff Galloway: Running
“Find a way to enjoy parts of every run. Most of your runs should be mostly enjoyable.” —Jeff Galloway.
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David James Elliott: Running
Every time I go out there, I win. Every time I finish the task that I’ve set before myself, I win again. David James Elliott, actor
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Michael T Thomas: Volume in music
“Extreme volume in music very often disguises a lack of actually important content. ” —Michael T Thomas
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Steve Jobs: Running
There are times when you run a marathon and you wonder, Why am I doing this? But you take a drink of water, and around the next bend, you get your wind back, remember the finish line, and keep going. Steve Jobs Related articles Remembering Steve Jobs (digitalsurgeons.com) P.E.I. marathon committee bars 10-year-old runner from…
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Jeff Galloway: Running
“By going slowly, you can burn more fat, push back your endurance barriers and go faster at shorter distance races.” —Jeff Galloway, U.S. Olympian, Runner’s World columnist, and author.
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Kristin Armstrong: Running
“Without running, I would have missed the joy of rain. What could be considered an inconvenience or a bummer to the inexperienced is actually a gift. Without running, I would miss a lot of things—like seeing cities in a certain way, or knowing certain people all the way to the core. I’m glad we don’t…
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Don Bosco: Put up
“Put up willingly with the faults of others if you wish others to put up with yours.”—Don Bosco.
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Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi: Nothing new!
“I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could.” —Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi(1869-1948).
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John Lennon: Who are you?
“You don’t need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are. You are what you are!” —John Lennon
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Jeff Cooper: Safety
“Safety is something that happens between your ears, not something you hold in your hands. ” —Jeff Cooper.
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Alphonse Karr: Uncertainty
“Uncertainty is the worst of all evils until the moment when reality makes us regret uncertainty. ” —Alphonse Karr.
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Joe Henderson: Your toughest opponent
“Your toughness is made up of equal parts persistence and experience. You don’t so much outrun your opponents as outlast and outsmart them, and the toughest opponent of all is the one inside your head.“ —Joe Henderson, running coach and author.
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Anatole France: To learn and to do
“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. ” —Anatole France.
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Walter S Robertson: Responsibilities
“The only way to get rid of responsibilities is to discharge them.” —Walter S Robertson
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Lee C. Bollinger: Running
Running is a form of relaxation. That’s one of the curiosities of life – that such a high-energy activity could be so relaxing. Lee C. Bollinger, President of Columbia University
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Tasya Lacy: Running
“I realize that I have been blessed with health and strength to overcome not only the miles on the road, but also to overcome the hard times in life when you want to throw in the towel. When I cross the line now, it is a celebration of the fact that I didn’t quit.”…
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Deena Kastor: Running
The beauty of running is its simplicity; the beauty of runners is that we all have a similar drive to improve. Deena Kastor, U.S. Olympian
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Peter Sagal: Running
“We runners talk about having fun but I don’t think anybody believes us. We talk about discipline and endurance, we take care, we exercise caution, we watch our diets and monitor our pace. We are ascetics who talk, unconvincingly, of the bracing enjoyment of self-abuse.” —Peter Sagal.
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Carrie Parker: Running
On every run, I discover the strength that I did not know I had. Some days it is my salvation! Carrie Parker, technical analyst
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Grantland Rice: The road
“Does the road wind up-hill all the way? Yes, to the very end. Will the day’s journey take the whole long day? From morn to night, my friend. ” Grantland Rice
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Maxim Gorky: A good man and a bad one
“A good man can be stupid and still be good. But a bad man must have brains.” —Maxim Gorky.
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Priscilla Welch: Running
“Running made me feel like a bird let out of a cage, I loved it that much.” —Priscilla Welch, retired British marathoner.
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Selene Yeager: Running
“Running has the power to change your life. It will make you fitter, healthier, even happier.” —Selene Yeager, “Let’s Get Started,” May 2010 issue of Runner’s World.
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Kristin Armstrong: Running and growing older
“As I get older I see that running has changed for me. What used to be about burning calories is now more about burning up what is false. Lies I used to tell myself about who I was and what I could do, friendships that cannot withstand hills or miles, the approval I no longer…
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Lorraine Moller: Running
For me, running is a lifestyle and an art. I’m far more interested in the magic of it than the mechanics. It’s that interest and exploration that make running fun for me. It’s easy to become outcome-focused; for me the unfoldment of self is what is meaningful in running and outlasts any medals. Lorraine Moller,…
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Jeff Mastro: Running
At first I was running just to lose weight, and then after about six months when I was increasing the distance of my long runs, I was intrigued and fascinated how the human body can go from barely able to run a mile to being able to run eight miles. Jeff Mastro, runner and restaurant…
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Kahlil Gibran: Ingratitude
“I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers.” —Kahlil Gibran, mystic, poet, and artist (1883-1931).
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Martin Luther King: Non-violence
“Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time the need for mankind to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence. Mankind must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.” —Martin Luther King.
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George Lorimer: Running
You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction. George Lorimer, journalist
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Adam Goucher: Running
You are truly your own hero in running. It is up to you to have the responsibility and self-discipline to get the job done. Adam Goucher
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Robert de Castella: Running
Running well is a matter of having the patience to persevere when we are tired and not expecting instant results. Robert de Castella, Australian marathon runner
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Bob Schwartz: Running
“Take advantage of bad running days and take advantage of good running days. Take advantage of running.” —Bob Schwartz, Running Laughs blog.
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Colby Phillips: Running
I love the feeling you get after a workout. You know that you’ve done something great for yourself, with a little effort. There’s no cost, but the payoff—feeling good about the way I look—is huge. Colby Phillips, U.S. Army Officer
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Dean Karnazes: Running
Running is about finding your inner peace, and so is a life well lived. Dean Karnazes, ultrarunner
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Peter Magill: Running
No one is born a perfect runner. And none of us will become one. But through incremental steps, we can become better runners. And that’s the beauty of our sport: There are no shortcuts, nothing is given to us; we earn every mile, and we earn every result. Peter Magill, 2010 USA Masters 5K champion…
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Bernard Iddings Bell: To love
“To love is not a passive thing. To love is active voice. When I love I do something, I function, I give. I do not love in order that I may be loved back again, but for the creative joy of loving. And every time I do so love I am freed, at least…
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Bruce Lee: Be water, my friend
“Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless – like water. Now you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup, you put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle, you put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.” —Bruce Lee http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/74961332
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Douglas d'Adabie: Running
Running can open so many doors; improved health, new social groups, a sense of accomplishment, the list goes on. What I have found is that the key to success is consistency. Just get out there and run, and in no time you will be doing things that you never thought possible. Douglas d’Adabie, Runner’s World…
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Jeff Galloway: Running
“Everyone has stress. A good run may not erase it, but it can reduce the effect and allow runners to gain control.” —Jeff Galloway, U.S. Olympian, Runner’s World columnist, and author.
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Valerie DiMambro: You got this
I don’t know if running changed my life or if I changed my life for running, but who cares really? My feet keep moving, my arms keep pumping, and my mantra keeps rolling, ‘Be patient. You got this.’ Valerie DiMambro, RW Challenger
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Theodore Roosevelt: Who counts?
“It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strongman stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs…
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Oscar Wilde: Do not ask
“The sick do not ask if the hand that smooths their pillow is pure, nor the dying care if the lips that touch their brow have known the kiss of sin.” —Oscar Wilde, writer (1854-1900).
