Grete Waitz Quotes

In a marathon, if you run too fast, you get exhausted. If you run too slow, you never make it.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

I trained for the marathon. I run along the East River, and I used to run all the way down Manhattan, up the West Side and back home.

I ran my first marathon in Florida in 1985. I had never run more than nine miles.

Marathon running, for me, was the most controlled test of mettle that I could ever think of. It's you against Darwin.

We don't need to run 5-6 kms, even in a Test match.

I run year-round and then ramp up my training for a race a few months before.

Where the marathon starts is after 30 kilometers. That's where you feel pain everywhere in your body. The muscles are really aching, and only the most prepared and well-organized athlete is going to do well after that.

It is not easy to participate in the 21 km. marathon. It takes a lot of energy, determination, and will power. It takes months to train to reach that mark with a proper diet chart.

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

Every marathon starts with that first mile. But somewhere around mile 16 or 18 - trust me on this - your feet are killing you, you're not sure you can breathe anymore, your mind is frazzled, your body wracked with pain, and all you want to do is stop.

The best form of endurance exercise is the performance of the event.

But you can't muscle through a five-hour run that way; you have to relax into it like easing your body into a hot bath, until it no longer resists the shock and begins to enjoy it.

Long distance running is particularly good training in perseverance.

Take courage and work on. Patience and steady work- this is the only way.

Everything stinks till it’s finished.

Who longest waits most surely wins.

To lose patience is to lose the battle.

A man must learn to endure patiently what he cannot avoid conveniently.

Genius is only a greater aptitude for patience.

And you very soon find out, if you have not found it out before, that patience and tenacity of purpose are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness.