Michael J. Fox Quotes

My goals are to run the London Marathon and do the best that I can.

As a scientist, I play in the top league - the Olympics, the World Championships - and I want to be in the lead. As a runner, I set personal goals, and I want to push beyond my own personal limits. I was very happy when I practiced for several months and then reached my goal to run a marathon in 2:50.

My husband and I both have our bucket lists. Running a marathon was on mine.

I have ten marathons under my belt, including four New York races and one Boston.

When I was around thirty, I met my own personal challenge and finished a few marathons under three hours, and I have completed many long bicycle tours.

I ran my first marathon in Florida in 1985. I had never run more than nine miles.

A couple of years ago I ran in the LA Marathon.

I am happy that I ran the half-marathon, but to me, just running and saying that I finished a race isn't enough for me. I want to run the race as best as I can. Working out for pants size isn't enough. I need a goal or a race to get back on the treadmill every day.

Running a marathon is something I've always wanted to do.

Over the years, I've given myself a thousand reasons to keep running, but it always comes back to where it started. It comes down to self-satisfaction and a sense of achievement.

I started running outside when I was at 'Biggest Loser.' Then I got runner's knee, and thought I was never going to be able to shake it. When I overcame that and ran the L.A. Marathon, it was such an amazing thing, and now running is such a part of my routine.

I always thought if you run a Marathon in less than 4 hours, there is a tick of athletic accomplishment in that. Anything over that is just an old guy with a hard head who isn't going to stop until he's done.

I think that's kind of nice that there's this kind of inherent respect between runners who do a marathon. People respect somebody who has done it, and I will do anything to get some respect because I don't get a lot respect in my life.

It's like the first man to go to the moon, I will be the first man to run under two hours, this is crucial.

I don't usually set personal goals.

Aiming for the marathon is a task of sorts which can include terrific highs and lows.

Know why people run marathons? …Because running is rooted in our collective imagination, and our imagination is rooted in running. Language, art, science; space shuttles, Starry Night, intravascular surgery; they all had their roots in our ability to run. Running was the superpower that made us human — which means its a superpower all humans posses.

Learn how to set goals. That's the key to everything. That includes designing your own success. You define what the goal is, it's not somebody else's goal, it's yours.

Goals aren't enough. You need goals plus deadlines: goals big enough to get excited about and deadline to make you run. One isn't much good without the other, but together they can be tremendous.

Every goal is hard work, especially in such an excellent league as the Bundesliga; or even take the Champions League.

Decide what it is you want, write it down, review it constantly, and each day do something that moves you toward those goals.

Only three percent of adults have written goals, and everyone else works for them.

My goal has always been to introduce other people to running. They might accomplish something they never thought they could.

Of all the races, there is no better stage for heroism than a marathon.

When you first start to do jiu-jitsu everyone has the goal of being a black belt. You want to be great at everything you do.