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More Quotes by Kathrine Switzer
A lack of forgiveness is a waste of time and it's very enriching to forgive and move on but those are things that come with time.
Women were afraid and they would never even imagine running a marathon in 1967.
I could feel my anger dissipating as the miles went by--you can't run and stay mad!
If you are losing faith in human nature, go out and watch a marathon.
At the finish line of the 1967 Boston Marathon, one crabby journalist said it was just a one-off deal and women weren't going to run. Only a 20-year-old who had just run a marathon and was shot full of endorphin would say this but I said that there's going to come a day in our lives when women's running is as popular and as men's.
I don't have any kids of my own, quite by choice. There are two reasons for that. One, I had a sense of obligation for what my life would be and a vision of how to get that accomplished and it didn't include children. It's not that I don't like them, it's just that if you have them, they deserve 100 per cent of your attention.
Talent is everywhere, it only needs the opportunity.
Triumph over adversity that's what the marathon is all about. Nothing in life can't triumph after that
I said that there's going to come a day in our lives when women's running is as popular and as men's. Looking back, I obviously had a great sense of vision. And I was right.
Five years after Boston 1967, I went to the Munich Olympics. I realized that major sponsorship could help me create the opportunity. I wrote a big proposal to Avon cosmetics on how creating a global series of women's races could lead to getting women in the Olympic marathon. People thought I was smoking poppy at the time. The longest event in the Olympic Games was 800m.
