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More Quotes by Kathrine Switzer
I do forgive people when they get it right, even people who in the past I thought were unforgivable.
I could feel my anger dissipating as the miles went by--you can't run and stay mad!
Women is out because she's getting in her daily dose of empowerment, freedom and fearlessness. She has put on her freedom wings for 20 minutes or two hours. That's going to make her whole day right and her whole future hold up and seem entirely possible. The sense of her not having any limits, or any restrictions, to me, is so liberating. She doesn't have to prove anything.
There is an expression among even the most advanced runners that getting your shoes on is the hardest part of any workout
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.
All you need is the courage to believe in yourself and put one foot in front of the other.
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.
When I go to the Boston Marathon now, I have wet shoulders—women fall into my arms crying. They're weeping for joy because running has changed their lives. They feel they can do anything.
If you are losing faith in human nature, go out and watch a marathon.
Life is for participating, not for spectating.
