#marathon

You know the marathon in my country is just exceptional. It's like soccer in England. If England win the world cup and Ethiopia win the marathon - it's the same. ↗

— Haile Gebrselassie

#cup #england #ethiopia #exceptional #just

I love to run. I was challenged to run the New York marathon four months after having my youngest son, and since running isn't a big part of softball, the thought of a marathon was a stretch for me. ↗

— Jennie Finch

#big #challenged #four #having #i

In the long term, improving investor confidence is a marathon, not a sprint. ↗

— John Gavin

#improving #investor #long #long term #marathon

I thought about running a marathon a long time ago, but I'm just not a runner. ↗

— Shannon Miller

#ago #i #just #long #long time

I set myself some specific goals, but the key one is just getting myself into as good a shape as possible for one day this year: the Olympic marathon. ↗

— Paula Radcliffe

#getting #goals #good #i #into

The starting line of the New York Marathon is kind of like a giant time bomb behind you about to go off. It is the most spectacular start in sport. ↗

— Bill Rodgers

#behind #bomb #giant #go #kind

The Federal appropriations process is a marathon, not a sprint, and we are at the beginning of that process. ↗

— Jim Walsh

#beginning #federal #marathon #process #sprint

Our favorite: a former garbage dump converted into a riverside park. I first ran there more than 30 years ago when a marathon passed through this park that later became home to Pre's Trail. ↗

— Joe Henderson

#became #converted #dump #favorite #first

In the end, the American dream is not a sprint, or even a marathon, but a relay. Our families don't always cross the finish line in the span of one generation. But each generation passes on to the next the fruits of their labor. ↗

— Julian Castro

#american #american dream #cross #dream #each

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

— Haruki Murakami

#full #hours #i #marathon #minutes