More Quotes by Kathrine Switzer
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.
If you feel positive, you have a sense of hope. If you have hope, you can have courage.
When I forgave Jock Semple on Heartbreak Hill, I also got really cross with women. I couldn't understand why they didn't get it, why they didn't know that running was so cool and why they weren't in the race as well. Then I thought to myself "How stupid can you be? You've had so much encouragement and motivation and these women haven't."
Life is for participating, not for spectating.
I always say that talent and capability is everywhere, all it needs is opportunity.
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.
There is an expression among even the most advanced runners that getting your shoes on is the hardest part of any workout
A picture, of Jock Semple kissed me,appeared in The New York Times the next day after Boston Marathon in 1973, and the caption was "The end of an era.
A lack of forgiveness is a waste of time and it's very enriching to forgive and move on but those are things that come with time.
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.
