Catherine Ndereba Quotes

I can run a long distance very slowly and I do a half marathon every year.

I am a distance runner, a marathoner... literally and figuratively.

I like to think of myself as a pretty good athlete, I don't think I'm a great sprinter, but 200, 400, maybe 800. I won't say excel in them, but I'd do pretty good.

The only way I'll ever run a marathon is if I'm involved in the administration.

If I run 100 meters 30 times, that is 3 kilometers and no longer a sprint.

I run at least five miles a day, just long distance.

I have been dreaming of an outdoor world record forever. Now I want them all: the 1500, the 5000, even the 800.

At Penn State, I ran distance and cross country as a walk-on. I wound up running a lot of marathons, 30-plus. I was okay. I won one in Johnstown, Pennsylvania. I think it was around 2:30. I could crank those out all day.

You learn to run like a sprinter, you'll be a great distance runner

I definitely run up right, and I've got pretty good speed.

I have a saying 'train, don't strain.' The Americans have the saying 'no pain, no gain' and that's why they have no distance running champions. They get down to the track with a stopwatch and flog their guts out thinking that it'll make them a champion, but they'll never make a champion that way.

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

I'm a runner from sports. I've been a runner, but I wasn't a cross-country runner or anything like that. I played a lot of soccer growing up.

You can run a sprint or your can run a marathon, but you can't sprint a marathon.

I read Christopher McDougall's book 'Born to Run.' If running were a religion, this would be its bible. I actually scribbled my favorite passages on my arm to read during the race.

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

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.

Running is my bedrock activity.

I like a man who can run faster than I can.

I walk an 11-minute mile without huffing and puffing.

A perfect run has nothing to do with distance. It's when your stride feels comfortable.

I started competing in cross-country when I was seven years old.

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

When I played, I had a natural ability to jump and run, and I just wanted to get bigger and heavier.

Beyond racing, I just love the art form of running, of conceiving new ideas like the 50 Marathons in 50 States in 50 Days. It's the ultimate expression of what I love to do, which is run, and travel, and see this great country.