Marathon Quotes

Life is often compared to a marathon, but I think it is more like being a sprinter; long stretches of hard work punctuated by brief moments in which we are given the opportunity to perform at our best.

I've run the Boston Marathon 6 times before. I think the best aspects of the marathon are the beautiful changes of the scenery along the route and the warmth of the people's support. I feel happier every time I enter this marathon.

Fear is a very explosive emotion, but it has a short life span. It's the sprint. The marathon is hope.

If you want to run, run a mile. If you want to experience a different life, run a marathon.

I don't smoke, don't drink much, and go to the gym five times a week. I live a healthy lifestyle and feel great. I can run a marathon, you know.

The Federal appropriations process is a marathon, not a sprint, and we are at the beginning of that process.

I always do an all-night horror marathon on Saturdays where we start at seven and go until five in the morning.

Being the lead of the show and working a lot of hours - all good stuff, a tremendous education, incredible opportunity, it changed my life - it was a marathon, and by the end of it I was pretty beat.

Plenty of people who are 38 have run really well in the marathon.

I happen to be a huge 'Lord of the Rings' fan. I do an annual marathon of the extended editions.

My wife and I work out together almost every day. It's just a great way to spend time together. We're going to run a marathon together later this year, and that's one more goal that we'll accomplish as husband and wife.

I did a movie called Marathon Man and it was one of my best memories.

A couple of years ago I ran in the LA Marathon.

Anybody who is running a marathon or doing a walkathon, doing a fundraiser for their school, their company, by far it's guaranteed the easiest and most fun way to quickly set up a fundraising campaign and send it around to your friends and family.

In the marathon anything can happen.

Winning times in the New York City Marathon have not dropped all that much over the years, but rather U.S. runners went backward. In 1983, there were 267 U.S. men who broke 2:20 in a marathon, and by 2000 that number was down to 27.

A doable goal for me is to finish a marathon under four hours. I'm doing all the training, but the hardest part is eating right.

The marathon always starts after 30K. That's where the problems start. You start without any problems, without any pain. All the pain comes after 30K. Sometimes, it's possible to have pain even in the finger.

Playing a three-hour Rush show is like running a marathon while solving equations.

I try to avoid the temptation with time as a total indicator for what my possibilities are for the marathon. It's the not the best indicator, but it's more how you feel, how you cover the distance and how you are able to do the training afterward.

In the long term, improving investor confidence is a marathon, not a sprint.

Whenever I'm being invited to the New York City Marathon like today, I need to think twice because I know it's a very tough race.

I used to run a full marathon in three hours and 25 or 26 minutes. Not any more.

If you don't ever stop singing, your voice stays in shape. It's like the marathon runner. You've got to run, run, run to stay in shape.

The marathon is all about energy management. I had planned to run it like a track race with strategic surges to blow up my competitors by putting them into oxygen debt, so that is the way I prepared.

When you run the marathon, you run against the distance, not against the other runners and not against the time.

I've run the marathon several times, so I definitely don't look like the Great Ancestor!

I look at directing as a sporting event. It's a race, a marathon. It's great when it clicks, which is why I push my crews so hard so we can excel.

I ran my fastest marathon in the rain.

What makes me happy is just curling up in with my mom in her bed and watching a marathon of 'CSI' and 'Grey's Anatomy' episodes with pints of ice cream.