More Quotes by Kathrine Switzer
There is an expression among even the most advanced runners that getting your shoes on is the hardest part of any workout
I could feel my anger dissipating as the miles went by--you can't run and stay mad!
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.
Triumph over adversity that's what the marathon is all about. Nothing in life can't triumph after that
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.
If you feel positive, you have a sense of hope. If you have hope, you can have courage.
I do forgive people when they get it right, even people who in the past I thought were unforgivable.
Women were afraid and they would never even imagine running a marathon in 1967.
1967 race in Boston changed not just my life, but millions of women's lives. There are also things that, when you get older, resonate more.
Jock Semple and I were at daggers drawn for five years, even though I kind of forgave him from the get-go. I knew he was an over-stressed race director, I knew he was protecting his race. It took five years because we had to do our homework - meaning we women - we did our legislative work and we officially got into the Boston Marathon. Then, all was forgiven by Jock Semple.
