I Hate Running and You Can Too Quotes

“But running is more like a weird friend I keep hanging out with and who is good for me in a really strange way—despite being pretty unlikable most of the time.”
― Brendan Leonard, I Hate Running and You Can Too: How to Get Started, Keep Going, and Make Sense of an Irrational Passion

“Start small, start now. This is much better than, “start big, start later.” One advantage is that you don’t have to start perfect. You can merely start. —Seth Godin”
― Brendan Leonard, I Hate Running and You Can Too: How to Get Started, Keep Going, and Make Sense of an Irrational Passion

“If you find yourself hating running and quitting early, just keep at it. Running takes time to become enjoyable. It’s not a surgical strike; it’s a war of attrition. —Matthew Inman (aka The Oatmeal)”
― Brendan Leonard, I Hate Running and You Can Too: How to Get Started, Keep Going, and Make Sense of an Irrational Passion

“Once you run a distance, it ceases to become irrational. It seems ridiculously far before you do it and maybe even while you’re doing it, but the next day or two days later, you find yourself thinking, “That wasn’t so bad.” And maybe you start thinking about the next distance you can run.”
― Brendan Leonard, I Hate Running and You Can Too: How to Get Started, Keep Going, and Make Sense of an Irrational Passion

“Everybody should try running. And when I say try it, I mean do it long enough that you get through the part where it sucks and into the fleeting but noticeable part where you actually think it’s fun. Because during every run, for a few seconds or a few minutes, you have a moment where it feels really good. You forget about the discomfort and you find rhythm, maybe some grace, and a feeling of strength and confidence as you move as well as you’ll ever move doing anything.”
― Brendan Leonard, I Hate Running and You Can Too: How to Get Started, Keep Going, and Make Sense of an Irrational Passion

“I suspect most of us runners have a complicated relationship with running—you could call it a love-hate relationship, but I think it’s more nuanced than that. If running were a person I was dating, I would definitely have broken up with that person long ago. But running is more like a weird friend I keep hanging out with and who is good for me in a really strange way—despite being pretty unlikable most of the time.”
― Brendan Leonard, I Hate Running and You Can Too: How to Get Started, Keep Going, and Make Sense of an Irrational Passion

“I finished the marathon and rewarded myself with a nine-year break from any sort of regular running.”
― Brendan Leonard, I Hate Running and You Can Too: How to Get Started, Keep Going, and Make Sense of an Irrational Passion

“Fall seven times and stand up eight. —Japanese proverb”
― Brendan Leonard, I Hate Running and You Can Too: How to Get Started, Keep Going, and Make Sense of an Irrational Passion

“Everyone in that starting corral, whether they run five-minute miles or fourteen-minute miles, is hoping they won’t have to stop to poop in the middle of the race. In that, we are all equal.”
― Brendan Leonard, I Hate Running and You Can Too: How to Get Started, Keep Going, and Make Sense of an Irrational Passion

“If you were standing in the crowd that day or have ever watched internet videos of Gunhild Swanson’s “Golden Minute,” I don’t think there’s any way you’d think she’s a “loser.” In fact, I’d argue that she was the 254th winner of the 2015 Western States 100.”
― Brendan Leonard, I Hate Running and You Can Too: How to Get Started, Keep Going, and Make Sense of an Irrational Passion

“Spending all that time in the proverbial “pain cave” makes the challenges of regular life a little easier because you’ve upped your tolerance for discomfort (and probably lowered your resting heart rate too). It”
― Brendan Leonard, I Hate Running and You Can Too: How to Get Started, Keep Going, and Make Sense of an Irrational Passion

“But over the long term, after you put yourself through a good amount of discomfort for a few minutes or hours at a time, a couple times a week, something else happens: You build a higher tolerance for pain and challenges in other aspects of your life.”
― Brendan Leonard, I Hate Running and You Can Too: How to Get Started, Keep Going, and Make Sense of an Irrational Passion

“That last 20 percent can feel way longer than the first 80 percent did, and it can make you feel like quitting way more as well. On many runs, it can be the worst part too. But if you figure out how to get through it every time without quitting, you’ll probably find it’s the most important part.”
― Brendan Leonard, I Hate Running and You Can Too: How to Get Started, Keep Going, and Make Sense of an Irrational Passion

“It’s like a snowball that builds as it rolls down a hill,” she says. “Every little bit counts.”
― Brendan Leonard, I Hate Running and You Can Too: How to Get Started, Keep Going, and Make Sense of an Irrational Passion

“Setting a goal, sticking to it, and achieving it, whatever it is, equals success.”
― Brendan Leonard, I Hate Running and You Can Too: How to Get Started, Keep Going, and Make Sense of an Irrational Passion

“When it comes to running, you have to become the person you don’t want to let down. You get a few minutes or an hour a few times a week when you put yourself first, and you don’t flake. You show up for yourself.”
― Brendan Leonard, I Hate Running and You Can Too: How to Get Started, Keep Going, and Make Sense of an Irrational Passion

“Inspiration is for amateurs. The rest of us just show up and get to work.”
― Brendan Leonard, I Hate Running and You Can Too: How to Get Started, Keep Going, and Make Sense of an Irrational Passion

“Some days you really crush it, some days you feel like you never quite get in the groove, but you show up every day.”
― Brendan Leonard, I Hate Running and You Can Too: How to Get Started, Keep Going, and Make Sense of an Irrational Passion

“It’s called showing up for work. He got up at five a.m., six days a week, and did his job. That’s it. He just showed up.”
― Brendan Leonard, I Hate Running and You Can Too: How to Get Started, Keep Going, and Make Sense of an Irrational Passion

“Don’t count on motivation. Count on discipline.”
― Brendan Leonard, I Hate Running and You Can Too: How to Get Started, Keep Going, and Make Sense of an Irrational Passion

“Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”
― Brendan Leonard, I Hate Running and You Can Too: How to Get Started, Keep Going, and Make Sense of an Irrational Passion

“Spending all that time in the proverbial “pain cave” makes the challenges of regular life a little easier because you’ve upped your tolerance for discomfort (and probably lowered your resting heart rate too). It also translates to an ability to run farther.”
― Brendan Leonard, I Hate Running and You Can Too: How to Get Started, Keep Going, and Make Sense of an Irrational Passion

“This effect turns down the volume on other irritants.”
― Brendan Leonard, I Hate Running and You Can Too: How to Get Started, Keep Going, and Make Sense of an Irrational Passion

“You build a higher tolerance for pain and challenges in other aspects of your life.”
― Brendan Leonard, I Hate Running and You Can Too: How to Get Started, Keep Going, and Make Sense of an Irrational Passion

“A lot of time when it’s getting harder, I will just become focused on moving and reminding myself that I’m fine. I guess if I had a mantra it might just be “You’re fine, you’re fine, you’re doing fine, this is fine.”
― Brendan Leonard, I Hate Running and You Can Too: How to Get Started, Keep Going, and Make Sense of an Irrational Passion

“But the most effective tactic is to just get out there, deal with it, and learn.”
― Brendan Leonard, I Hate Running and You Can Too: How to Get Started, Keep Going, and Make Sense of an Irrational Passion

“Running can suck. It can be really painful when you first start doing it, but with enough practice, it’s more uncomfortable than painful and you can just run longer before it hurts, or it hurts less because you’re more used to it.”
― Brendan Leonard, I Hate Running and You Can Too: How to Get Started, Keep Going, and Make Sense of an Irrational Passion

“Make it so easy you can’t say no.”
― Brendan Leonard, I Hate Running and You Can Too: How to Get Started, Keep Going, and Make Sense of an Irrational Passion

“You can look at your idea of being busy, give busy the middle finger, and get out there.”
― Brendan Leonard, I Hate Running and You Can Too: How to Get Started, Keep Going, and Make Sense of an Irrational Passion

“Because during every run, for a few seconds or a few minutes, you have a moment where it feels really good. You forget about the discomfort and you find rhythm, maybe some grace, and a feeling of strength and confidence as you move as well as you’ll ever move doing anything. And that’s one of the best reasons to run.”
― Brendan Leonard, I Hate Running and You Can Too: How to Get Started, Keep Going, and Make Sense of an Irrational Passion