Eradicate poverty. This is all that matters in my country. When I am out training I think about this a lot; when I am running it is going over in my mind. As a country we cannot move forward until we eradicate poverty.
Haile Gebrselassie

Since I achieved something, running has exploded in my country. For me sometimes it is difficult even to know who the athletes are who are competing at the highest level. There are thousands.
Haile Gebrselassie

My workout was running down fly balls, stealing a base, or running for my life on the football field.
Bo Jackson

Shutting off the thought process is not rejuvenating; the mind is like a car battery - it recharges by running.
Bill Watterson

After all, sustainability means running the global environment - Earth Inc. - like a corporation: with depreciation, amortization and maintenance accounts. In other words, keeping the asset whole, rather than undermining your natural capital.
Maurice Strong

I do believe the Democratic party has moved far to the right. I do believe that the party has a bunch of elephants running around in donkey clothes.
Al Sharpton

I don't think a female running a house is a problem, a broken family. It's perceived as one because of the notion that a head is a man.
Toni Morrison

The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have to shave twice a day.
Adlai E. Stevenson

Be more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after swift but synthetic happiness.
Abdul Kalam

Two things are bad for the heart - running up stairs and running down people.
Bernard Baruch

When my horse is running good, I don't stop to give him sugar.
Douglas Horton

Acceptance of one's life has nothing to do with resignation; it does not mean running away from the struggle. On the contrary, it means accepting it as it comes, with all the handicaps of heredity, of suffering, of psychological complexes and injustices.
Paul Tournier

For, he that expects nothing shall not be disappointed, but he that expects much - if he lives and uses that in hand day by day - shall be full to running over.
Edgar Cayce

Hitting the ball was easy. Running around the bases was the tough part.
Mickey Mantle

After I hit a home run I had a habit of running the bases with my head down. I figured the pitcher already felt bad enough without me showing him up rounding the bases.
Mickey Mantle

I object to people running down the future. I am going to live all the rest of my life there.
Charles Kettering

I want to promote poetry to the point where you got all the baldhead kids running around doing poetry, getting the music out of the way and having only words, the spoken word, and then see what happens.
Russell Simmons

I think Hollywood has a class system. The actors are like the inmates, but the truth is they're running the asylum.
Robert De Niro

All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why.
James Thurber

Leaders are responsible not for running public opinion polls but for the consequences of their actions.
Henry A. Kissinger