Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever.

(Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.)

- Lance Armtrong.

There are times when your body is saying, ‘I don’t want to do this,’ and your mind says, ‘Shut up, body, and do what I tell you!’

- Jens Voigt.

There’s something so universal about that sensation, the way running unites our two most primal impulses: fear and pleasure. We run when we’re scared, we run when we’re ecstatic, we run away from our problems and run around for a good time.

- Christopher McDougall – Born To Run.

I have to change a lot of things before I become a good marathon runner.

- Haile Gebrselassie

You are never really playing an opponent. You are playing yourself, your own highest standards, and when you reach your limits, that is real joy.

- Arthur Ashe

The more you hurry to succeed, the longer it will take to succeed.

- Barefoot Bob

I like to think that her Majesty was there at the window, watching our last strides, for if it was not for her family we would already be sitting on the pavemet with a cup of tea and a biscuit.

- Robin Harvie – Why We Run