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More Quotes by Kathrine Switzer
Triumph over adversity that's what the marathon is all about. Nothing in life can't triumph after that
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.
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.
I do forgive people when they get it right, even people who in the past I thought were unforgivable.
If you feel positive, you have a sense of hope. If you have hope, you can have courage.
Women is out because she's getting in her daily dose of empowerment, freedom and fearlessness. She has put on her freedom wings for 20 minutes or two hours. That's going to make her whole day right and her whole future hold up and seem entirely possible. The sense of her not having any limits, or any restrictions, to me, is so liberating. She doesn't have to prove anything.
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.
All you need is the courage to believe in yourself and put one foot in front of the other.
I said that there's going to come a day in our lives when women's running is as popular and as men's. Looking back, I obviously had a great sense of vision. And I was right.
I always say that talent and capability is everywhere, all it needs is opportunity.
