Running Technique Quotes

I have a wife and two boys. One is 18 and the other is 14. The 18-year old is getting ready for college next year and he made a decision to run track. He runs a lot like Michael Johnson.

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

As an athlete, you can train for so many years to be a 5K/10K runner. That's who you are, and it's hard to change that. Not using that technique - almost like a sprint - that's when you have to loosen up and just save as much energy as you can.

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

I like to run. I think it's good, you can do it anywhere, you don't a gym, I just think it's really easy to do.

When I run barefoot, I put my shoes on my hands. Running around with shoe-hands looks a little weird.

I just know how to run, and that is what I do.

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 used to think that it didn't make any difference how far you ran if you had a good, strong musculoskeletal system and no underlying cardiovascular problems.

I run upright mostly when I see daylight, so if you watch film you'll see I don't get hit in the chest much.

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

Running is a very natural activity. If you get too caught up, you find yourself constantly seeking to make running something that it isn't. You should let it be what it is - a very simple activity. Running has become too complicated for many people and they wind up turning sour on the sport, or losing the focus of their direction.

My goals are to run the London Marathon and do the best that I can.

At the beginning, it is all about fun. I had a lot of fun. But then, when I was 10 years old, more or less, I had a coach who said that I had a strange running style. I was about to leave... I had a decision to take: if I leave or if I stay, but as a goalkeeper.

I am not sure how fast I can run.

I've started listening to music in a new way after I started running. When it comes to running, I really got into the idea of track listings that way, too.

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

I couldn't throw, run, hit, or hit for power.

Running had always been off the table for me. It just looks embarrassing when I do it. I viewed it like learning a new language - best to learn it as a child.

Train at the same pace day after day, week after week, year after year, and that's the kind of running the body adapts to. But break out of that comfort zone with a little speedwork now and then, and the body will learn to deal with the new demands.

One of my first races came over 10km in 2002. I won that race and it felt great. I would say that is when I first fell in love with running.

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.

People think that coaches are always right, but it's difficult to teach a runner how to run, because every runner is different. You have to have an understanding of how to assist what that runner has, so they know how to assist what you have without taking away your special ability, because you're not like anybody else.

I tend to listen to podcasts while running. I don't like to listen to music because my brain would try to get me to run in time with it.

The difference between a jogger and a runner is an entry blank.