Keyword: Running

The difference between the mile and the marathon is the difference between burning your fingers with a match and being slowly roasted over hot coals.

American author & runner

I went through a stage of feeling awful to one of feeling terrible. Once I started to feel terrible I was OK.

English distance runner

He ran like his feet were on fire and his ass was catchin'.

Her time is about 4.33, which she’s capable of.

(1926 – ) English sports commentator

I normally run the 40-yard dash in 4.9, but when a 280-pound guy is chasing me, I run it in 4.6.

American football player

That's the fastest time ever run – but it's not as fast as the world record.

(1926 – ) English sports commentator

I still feel 30, except when I try to run.

(1929 – ) American comedian & comic actor

I was thinking of running a marathon, but I think it might be too difficult getting all the roads closed and providing enough water for everyone.

comedian

And the line-up for the final of the Women’s 400 meters hurdles includes three Russians, two East Germans, a Pole, a Swede and a Frenchman.

(1926 – ) English sports commentator

She’s not [runner] Ben Johnson… but then, who is.

(1926 – ) English sports commentator

Dave Wottle has completely misjudged this race… and here comes Wottle!

(1926 – ) English sports commentator

Not a good night for Zola Budd. She died on the last lap and finished fourth.

Big balls count.

Australian runner

There is no secret to running – run hard, have a beer, have a pizza. We make it too complicated.

New Zealand runner

We estimate, and this isn’t an estimation, that Greta Waitz is 80 seconds behind.

(1926 – ) English sports commentator

Distance running to a professional athlete in my day was five laps around the field. And you stopped each lap to take your pulse.

American football player

One reason that Finland produces such great runners is that back home it costs $2.40 for gas.

Finnish marathon runner

It's the road signs, "Beware of lions.”

Kenyan distance runner

Doctors and scientists said breaking the four-minute mile was impossible, that one would die in the attempt; thus, when I got up from the track after collapsing at the finish line, I figured I was dead.

(1929 – ) English middle-distance athlete, physician & academic

I was watching the London Marathon and saw one runner dressed as a chicken and another runner dressed as an egg… I thought: ‘This could be interesting.’

comedian

The older you get, the faster you ran as a kid.

professional football player & coach