I'm want (to be) a Hamburger

So, I haven't posted in a while, but I today I looked up quotes about Marathons, all of which are listed below. Some I like, some I don't, some I agree with, some I don't, but, to me that's one of the great things about training for a Marathon...it's ultimately about the experience of the individual. You can train with a group, you can stand at the starting line with a group, but, once you get going...it's all about you getting yourself to the finish.

I put my favourite, by the legendary Bill Bowerman first...hence the title.

"I still bother with runners I call hamburgers. They're never going to run any record times, but they can always fulfill their own potential." - Bill Bowerman, legendary University of Oregon track coach

"To describe the agony of a marathon to someone who's never run it is like trying to explain color to someone who was born blind."
Jerome Drayton

"Marathon running is a terrible experience: monotonous, heavy, and exhausting."
Veikko Karvonen, 1954 European and Boston Marathon Champ

"You have to forget your last marathon before you try another. Your mind can't know what's coming."
Frank Shorter

"Marathoning is like cutting yourself unexpectedly. You dip into the pain so gradually that the damage is done before you are aware of it. Unfortunately, when awareness comes, it is excruciating."
John Farrington, Australian marathoner

"There is the truth about the marathon and very few of you have written the truth. Even if I explain to you, you'll never understand it, you're outside of it."
Douglas Wakiihuri speaking to journalists

"We are different, in essence, from other men. If you want to win something, run 100 meters. If you want to experience something, run a marathon."
Emil Zatopek

"I definitely want to show how beautiful the marathon can be. I am the opponent of all those who find the marathon bad: the psychologists, the physiologists, the doubters. I make the marathon beatiful for myself and for others. That's why I'm here."
Uta Pippig

"I felt like I played in a very rough football game with no hitting above the waist."
Alan Page, former Nfl football star

"You can actually suffer a little bit more going slowly than when you're going really fast. A faster marathon might even be easier than a slow one, in terms of what it takes out of you mentally."
Frank Shorter

"At the two-thirds mark, I think of those who are still with me. Who might make a break? Should I? Then I give it all I've got."
Ibrahim Hussein, on marathon tactics

"I'm never going to run this again."
Grete Waitz after winning her first of nine New York City marathons

"The marathon can humble you."
Bill Rodgers

"I am too tired, even to be happy."
Gelindo Bordin, Italy, immediately after winning the Olympic Marathon in Seoul

"I was unable to walk for a whole week after that, so much did the race take out of me. But it was the most pleasant exhaustion I have ever known."
Emil Zatopek's description of the Olympic Marathon win in Helsinki

"Get going. Get up and walk if you have to, but finish the damned race."
Ron Hill to Jerome Drayton during the 1970 Boston Marathon

"The New York Marathon: a fantastic event."
Pope John Paul II, 1982

"The starting line of the New York City marathon is kind of a giant time bomb behind you about to go off. It is the most spectacular start in sport."
Bill Rodgers

"When I came to New York in 1978, I was a full-time school teacher and track runner, and determined to retire from competitive running. But winning the New York City Marathon kept me running for another decade."
Grete Waitz

"I just run as hard as I can for 20 miles, and then race."
Steve Jones (when asked about his race plan, after he had won the "Chicago Marathon" in the then world's best time)

"Anyone can run 20 miles. It's the next six that count."
Barry Magee, marathon bronze in Rome, 1960

"A marathon is like life with its ups and downs, but once you've done it you feel that you can do anything."
unknown

"Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up. It knows it must outrun the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning in Africa, a lion wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the slowest gazelle, or it will starve. It doesn't matter whether you're a lion or gazelle - when the sun comes up, you'd better be running."- Unknown

"Good things come slow - especially in distance running."- Bill Dellinger, University of Oregon coach

"If you ever get a second chance in life for something, you've got to go all the way."- Lance Armstrong

"Anybody can do just about anything with himself that he really wants to and makes his mind to do. We are capable of greater than we realize." - Norman Vincent Peale, author

"Running is a big question mark that's there each and every day. It asks you, 'Are you going to be a wimp or are you going to be strong today?'"- Peter Maher, Irish-Canadian Olympian and Sub-2:12 marathoner

"He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat."- Napoleon Bonaparte, legendary military leader

"We run, not because we think it is doing us good, but because we enjoy it and cannot help ourselves. The more restricted our society and work become, the more necessary it will be to find some outlet for this craving for freedom. No one can say, 'You must not run faster than this, or jump higher than that.' The human spirit is indomitable."- Sir Roger Bannister, first man to break the four minute mile

"The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win."- Sir Roger Bannister

"Most men take the straight and narrow. A few take the road less traveled. I chose to cut through the woods."- Unknown

"Hills are speedwork in disguise."- Frank Shorter

"There's no such thing as bad weather, just soft people."- Bill Bowerman

"What matters is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog."- Dwight D. Eisenhower

"How does a kid from Coos Bay, with one leg longer than the other win races? All my life people have been telling me, 'You're too small Pre', 'You're not fast enough Pre', 'Give up your foolish dream Steve'. But they forgot something, I HAVE TO WIN."- Steve Prefontaine

"Running is the greatest metaphor for life, because you get out of it what you put into it."- Oprah Winfrey, talk show host and marathon finisher

"Most people run a race to see who is fastest. I run a race to see who has the most guts."- Steve Prefontaine

"I prefer to remain in blissful ignorance of the opposition. That way I'm not frightened by anyone's reputation."- Ian Thompson, 2:09.12 marathon at the 1974 Commonwealth Games