Christopher McDougall Quotes

I ran a 100-mile marathon, and I was powered by coconut water.

Yes, my dad's a marathoner. He used to do sprint distances and then started marathoning. My mom is an endurance animal. She does three-day events like the Susan G. Komen three-day walk.

When I ran across America, for 75 days I ate 10,000 calories a day. I still lost about five pounds.

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

If you are a really good marathoner, you have to run New York.

Often I feel like I can run forever. If someone told me I had to run for 10 hours, I probably could.

In athletics, older runners tend to go for longer races, but it's the opposite in swimming because your body can't handle the endurance.

I would like to be as fit as I've always been. I've been blessed with good health, I've been blessed with stamina. Particularly for those great classical roles, you need an Olympian stamina. I, fortunately, have that.

I do a lot of biking. I need that mileage and the long-distance stuff because tennis demands it. My fitness trainer is always trying to convince me to do an Ironman. I can probably run the marathon, I can make the 112 miles on the bike, but I will never swim for 2.4 miles. I will die after 100 meters.

Running a marathon is something I've always wanted to do.

I practice on the roads of Gaza as we don't have good stadiums and tracks so I gave my best.

I am a marathon runner. I ran the New York City marathon and almost died. I tried to run, like, a two-minute mile early on in the race. I was crazy enough to think I could win. After seven miles I thought I would die, but I slowed down my pace and kept going.

We are just not made up to be middle distance runners.

I do a lot of marathons as training runs. If I'm somewhere and there's a marathon, I'll sign up and just go run it.

You must be fast enough - you must have endurance. So you run fast for speed and repeat it many times for endurance.

Fitness has always been one of my strengths. I can do all the long-distance runs. When I was at school and we entered the competitions, I used to do the 100m, 200m, and the 1500m as well, so it's never just been a pace thing.

Right now I feel like playing as long as I can, As long as my body will allow me to play I'm going to continue to play.

We have sex like Kenyan marathon runners.

Of all the races, there is no better stage for heroism than a marathon.

What makes a great endurance athlete is the ability to absorb potenial embarrassment, and to suffer without complaint. I was discovering that if it was a matter of gritting my teeth, not caring how it looked, and outlasting everybody else, I won. It didn't seem to matter what sport it was-in a straight-ahead, long-distant race, I could beat anybody. If it was a suffer-fest, I was good at it.

Right on through today, my lungs and stamina are my engine. I'm not nearly the strongest guy or the most flexible, but I can definitely sustain pace on the mountain.

Endurance running was my passion, my ride. So here, I was in the driver's seat, running for two days straight pushing the mental and physical limits striving to be better, to go farther, to give more.

Hard pounding, gentlemen. Let's see who pounds the longest.

I was born to be a runner. I simply love to run. It's almost like the faster I go, the easier it becomes.

People say I'm around because I have a lot of heart, but I know all the heart in the world couldn't have helped me if I wasn't physically fit.