Kathrine Switzer famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

If you are losing faith in human nature, go out and watch a marathon.
-- Kathrine Switzer

#Running #Endurance #Watches
Life is for participating, not for spectating.
-- Kathrine Switzer

#Life Is
I could feel my anger dissipating as the miles went by--you can't run and stay mad!
-- Kathrine Switzer

#Running #Mad #Miles
There is an expression among even the most advanced runners that getting your shoes on is the hardest part of any workout
-- Kathrine Switzer

#Workout #Expression #Shoes
All you need is the courage to believe in yourself and put one foot in front of the other.
-- Kathrine Switzer

#Believe #Feet #Needs
When I go to the Boston Marathon now, I have wet shouldersâ€”women fall into my arms crying. They're weeping for joy because running has changed their lives. They feel they can do anything.
-- Kathrine Switzer

#Running #Fall #Boston
When I was first running marathons, we were sailing on a flat earth. We were afraid we'd get big legs, grow mustaches, not get boyfriends, not be able to have babies. Women thought that something would happen to them, that they'd break down or turn into men, something shadowy, when they were only limited by their own society's sense of limitations.
-- Kathrine Switzer

#Sports #Running #Baby
If you feel positive, you have a sense of hope. If you have hope, you can have courage.
-- Kathrine Switzer

#Having Hope #Feels #Have Courage
Talent is everywhere, it only needs the opportunity.
-- Kathrine Switzer

#Leadership #Sports #Opportunity
Triumph over adversity that's what the marathon is all about. Nothing in life can't triumph after that
-- Kathrine Switzer

#Adversity #Triumph #Marathon

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