Marathon Quotes
Need a Little Inspiration?

"We are different, in essence, from other men. If you want to win something, run 100 meters. If you want to experience something, run a marathon."
-Emil Zatopek

"No pain, no gain."
- Athletic proverb

"To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the Gift."
- Steve Prefontaine, runner

"Good things come slow - especially in distance running."
- Bill Dellinger, Oregon coach

"I'll train like a madman, un loco. Well, not like a madman, perhaps, but as if it were my last race."
- Rudolfo Gomez, prior to the Los Angeles Olympic Games

"Stadiums are for spectators. We runners have nature and that is much better."
- Juha Väätäinen, Finland

"The marathon can humble you.”
- Bill Rodgers, Champion Marathoner

"Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance."
- Bruce Barton, advertising executive

"You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club."
- Jack London

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