39 Quotes by Amby Burfoot

I always tell beginning runners: Train your brain first. It’s much more important than your heart or legs.

The true but rare runner’s high is a zone that we enter when everything seems to click perfectly, when time stands still, and when we can run almost without effort.

The most powerful lesson you can learn in running? You’re capable of much more than you think.

It’s what runners do. We keep on keeping on.

Running removes us briefly from the fragmentation and depersonalization of the digital world.

I’ve always liked hills. I see a challenge, a goal, and I feel instantly galvanized to achieve that goal.

Motivation is a skill. It can be learned and practiced.

Everyone stumbles at one time or another. It’s the human condition.

Too many people have refused to begin running or have quickly dropped out of running programs because they ‘have no talent for it.’ Ridiculous. Talent has nothing to do with it. The only thing that matters is mental discipline.