“At age forty-three, when I found myself standing in my garage in a new pair of running shoes, I knew that it was my moment of truth. Behind me lay forty years of bad decisions and broken promises.”

John Bingham, The Courage to Start

“Running is my private time, my therapy, my religion.”

Gail W. Kislevitz, writer

“For someone who has quit jobs, left relationships, forgotten dreams, and often quit when the going got tough, running has been the exception. I haven’t quit. I’m not going to quit, even if I take a break. And in that I take enormous pride.”

John Bingham

“A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.”

Winston Churchill

“Oh Lord, your Sea is so Great
and my Boat is so Small”

Breton Fisherman’s Prayer

“We are 90% metaphor.”

Ani DiFranco

“Act the way you’d like to be and soon you’ll be the way you act.”

Leonard Cohen or Bob Dylan or Dr. George Crane (Nobody seems to know for sure)

“Ignore all those other critics, guys, and just listen to me: an ambitious failure is better than a boring water-tread any day of the week.”

Rob Mitchum, Sept 2, 2003

“When the guy says go, you start to suffer—or you might as well not be out there. It’s a small piece of your life, make it hurt.”

Aaron Cox, Winner of US Mountain Biking Championship

“If you can train your mind for running, everything else will be easy.”

Amby Burfoot

“In the 30 years I’ve been a runner I’ve run more than 150,000 miles. Still, some of the hardest steps I take are those first few getting out the door for daily runs.”

Bill Rodgers’ Lifetime Running Plan

“Champions aren’t made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them;a desire, a dream, a vision.”

Muhammad Ali

“Give me initiative and I will show you remarkable things.”

Anonymous

“It is very difficult to train for a marathon; but it is even more difficult to not be able to train for a marathon.”

Aaron Douglas Trimble, Runner