Top 615 Running Quotes

I raced supremely well. I felt I was as well fitted to do it as I had ever been, and as perhaps I might ever be. I went climbing three weeks before, because I was feeling fed up with running.
Roger Bannister
Everyone’s waiting for the seventh book, and looking at each other saying, ‘Oh, I wonder will I be in the running?
Brendan Gleeson
Venus has a runaway greenhouse effect. I kind of want to know what happened there because we’re twirling knobs here on Earth without knowing the consequences of it. Mars once had running water. It’s bone dry today. Something bad happened there as well.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Some essential oils, a nice massage followed by a power nap helps me start my Sunday on the right note. After a week full of running around, this becomes the perfect rejuvenation.
Ananya Panday
The improv, sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t, but when it does, it’s like open-field running.
Robin Williams
I’m constantly running across people who have never heard of books I think they should read.
Paul Theroux
You see in the streets of London, great and little boys running about in long blue coats, which, like robes, reach quite down to the feet, and little white bands, such as the clergy wear.
Karl Philipp Moritz
Obviously we’re a consumer nation and you have the power to influence these big corporations who are running the world right now through what you chose to, or not to, purchase.
Daryl Hannah
We are running ourselves into a damaged earth. But I am optimistic. I believe that we can change; we must change. As a human race, we are very young and quite primitive. The sooner we learn the greatness of humanity the better off we will all be.
John Astin
I have motor oil running through my veins.
John Lasseter
When you raise prices, you've got to make sure you get

When you raise prices, you’ve got to make sure you get it to the bottom line. You can fritter it away because of the way you’re running the business, with maybe not a totally disciplined approach.
Jim Cantalupo
I usually create sounds and have different generators running over it. You know you can open a word-file as a picture or the other way round. I do the same with sounds.
Alva Noto
I really don’t look at comparing things that way because even in a 14-game season, there could be a running back who could have a lot more carries than other running backs.
Franco Harris
The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.
Anais Nin
I think video games and that stuff should be as violent as possible, but age-appropriate. It should be realistic. When it’s not realistic you run into kids running around shooting people and not realizing the consequences.
Darren Aronofsky
When you are younger, you are running on that pure naive adrenalin, you don’t have any real responsibility aside from making sure you get there and play. And there’s usually someone there to help you do that!
Andy Taylor
I won a silver medal. But really, I ended up running the fastest race of my life to become part of something that transcended the Games.
Peter Norman
Every quarterback can throw a ball; every running back can run; every receiver is fast; but that mental toughness that you talk about translates into competitiveness.
Tom Brady
Putin himself is a character out of fiction, an uber-macho former Soviet thug running a massive, expansionist kleptocracy. The man stages photographs riding horses barechested and hunting tigers. His enemies find themselves on the wrong end of radioactive poisoning.
Ben Shapiro
One thing governors feel, Democrats and Republicans alike, is that we have a health care system that, if you’re on Medicaid, you have unlimited access to health care, at unlimited levels, at no cost. No wonder it’s running away.
Mike Huckabee
The scar on my forehead is from running through a plate-glass panel when I was 15. I had 27 stitches, which took two hours.
Alan Hansen
Probably induced by the asthma, I started reading and writing early on, my literary efforts from the age of about nine running chiefly to poetry and plays.
Patrick White
He really is terribly heavy going. Like running up hill in roller skates.
Alan Ayckbourn
Girls are always running through my mind. They don’t dare walk.
Andy Gibb
And then after that, running around the bases, it was just one of those things. You couldn’t believe what happened to you. And I look back on it, it’s almost like it happened to somebody else.
Carlton Fisk
In a certain sense, this guy – who is one of the most evil people in the book – he’s not really that bad at running the show, because he knows what he’s doing, he’s smart and he’s got the big picture in mind. He’s like the Godfather.
Kevin J. Anderson
No one will ever win a 5,000-meter by running an easy two miles. Not against me.
Steve Prefontaine
Running is my meditation.
Jesse Itzler
I always find cardio the most monotonous. Running on a treadmill shows me why hamsters are so crazy.
Luke Evans
I keep fit by running after my three boys all day.
Victoria Beckham
Yes, Leander locked me out. I’d gone with my child for a birthday party. Leander and his mother were running out of the building as I was entering. They even put my clothes in boxes and threw them out.
Rhea Pillai
When I was running the Troubadour, there was this transition from the classic singer/songwriter Jackson Browne types to bands like Black Flag, the Dead Kennedys, and Fear. Those are just some that come to mind. Oh, and Adam Ant! The Fear fans wanted to ‘crush’ the Ants. These guys hated each other.
Jon Taffer
In Hollywood there are a lot of very insecure men running the business.
Rosanna Arquette
I think I survived by running away some. Running away to work.
Liam Neeson
Growing up in Kentucky, I used to hang out with four running buddies as a kid – 6, 10, and 11 years old. Two of them would later come out, and so 50 percent of my friends as a kid were gay.
Hal Sparks
I’ve done seven shows at the Palladium – long running shows I’m talking about.
Norman Wisdom
Because running fast is more fun than running slow.
Frank Shorter
I just absolutely needed the theatre so desperately – it was my fate; it was where I was running towards. It was the place where I found peace and survival and all kinds of things.
Mark Rylance
I get so many big ideas while I’m running and such clarity while I’m lifting weights. And staying fit keeps me happy and positive.
Robin S. Sharma
Defensively, hitting-wise, running the bases. There’s always room to improve. That motivates me to get a little better every day.
Aaron Judge
After I did the first Die Hard I said I’d never do another, same after I did the second one and the third. The whole genre was running itself into the ground.
Bruce Willis
I wasn't the student body this, student body that. I wa

I wasn’t the student body this, student body that. I was not much into running for office.
Tony Cardenas
Running for office was definitely something I’ve thought about. When I was younger, I wanted to major in political science. And I’ve been engaged in current events since I was a kid. If I can make a difference and feel passionately and capable, then I would. Why not?
Queen Latifah
The Italians always made good wine, but you had the impression they were friendly guys in straw hats running family vineyards with slaves or something so that the vino was never more than ten bucks a bottle.
Joe Bob Briggs
When you’re used to being in the public eye, if you’ve got a disease, you’ve got to own up to it. It’s about being about it, not running from it.
Randy Jackson
No one remembers this because it’s the whipping boy, but ‘The Single Guy’ was very well-reviewed and watched, and then the central concept became attacked by the very people who were putting it on. And then the next thing you know you’re running in fear, and everyone stops being funny.
Brad Hall
I feel running is far easier than coaching.
P. T. Usha
This act demonstrates graphically a turning away the past and moving ahead. You now get to refresh your time in a friendly way by running with the watch instead of against it or away from it.
Joe Henderson
They pulled Resurrection out of the theatres, so it was running in New York and I was nominated for the Oscar and there was no ad in the newspapers to say it was running. So it was literally killed.
Ellen Burstyn
I do look a bit different because Dudley was a very piggish character and about three years ago I lost quite a considerable amount of weight. It means that I can lead a normal life without the baggage of people running after me and shouting things at me.
Harry Melling
These wrestlers aren’t organized. They have no union, no pension and no insurance. You meet wrestler after wrestler who sold out Madison Square Garden ten years ago, basically running on fumes today. There’s a lot of drama there.
Darren Aronofsky
My father didn’t think running was sensible. He told me running is just wasting time.
Haile Gebrselassie
The assimilationist movement is running us into the ground.
Harry Hay
We took advantage of the running boom, which became the jogging boom, which became the fitness boom… and we’ve benefited from all of that.
Phil Knight
Life goes on, and I’m moving on to the next thing, but I hope the soaps that are still running will thrive. They have millions of loyal viewers.
Susan Lucci
I love sprinting, but I hate long-distance running. Isn’t that funny?
Dylan O’Brien
Any time a running back reaches the age of 31 or 32, he has to lose a step. No one is a freak of nature. No one is going to be able to take the pounding a running back has to take over a 10- or 12-year career and not lose a step.
Al Michaels
We were so poor as kids. I didn’t even see a bathtub, running water, hot water, commode – we didn’t have any of that. We started with a humble log house, milk cow, garden-raised our own food, killed a hog every year in the fall, and had the meat hanging up in the smokehouse – that was our childhood, me and ol’ Si.
Phil Robertson
Like having a child, running a startup is the sort of experience that’s hard to imagine unless you’ve done it yourself.
Paul Graham
I’m not sure about doing 10 takes of running up a flight of stairs, whether I’m really up to that… but I’ll definitely have a go!
Adrian Dunbar