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All you need is the courage to believe in yourself and put one foot in front of the other.
― Kathrine Switzer
Kathrine Switzer
Believe
Feet
Needs
If you are losing faith in human nature, go out and watch a marathon.
― Kathrine Switzer
Kathrine Switzer
Faith
Sports
Running
Life is for participating, not for spectating.
― Kathrine Switzer
Kathrine Switzer
Marathon
LifeIs
Participating
When I was first running marathons, we were sailing on a flat earth. We were afraid we'd get big legs, grow mustaches, not get boyfriends, not be able to have babies. Women thought that something would happen to them, that they'd break down or turn into men, something shadowy, when they were only limited by their own society's sense of limitations.
― Kathrine Switzer
Kathrine Switzer
Sports
Running
Baby
If you feel positive, you have a sense of hope. If you have hope, you can have courage.
― Kathrine Switzer
Kathrine Switzer
HavingHope
Feels
HaveCourage
I always say that talent and capability is everywhere, all it needs is opportunity.
― Kathrine Switzer
Kathrine Switzer
Opportunity
Needs
Talent
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.
― Kathrine Switzer
Kathrine Switzer
Running
Men
Vision
Talent is everywhere, it only needs the opportunity.
― Kathrine Switzer
Kathrine Switzer
Leadership
Sports
Opportunity
There is an expression among even the most advanced runners that getting your shoes on is the hardest part of any workout
― Kathrine Switzer
Kathrine Switzer
Motivational
Running
WorkOut
Triumph over adversity that's what the marathon is all about. Nothing in life can't triumph after that
― Kathrine Switzer
Kathrine Switzer
Adversity
Triumph
Marathon
When I finished the Boston race in 1967, there were two things I wanted to do. I wanted to become a better athlete because my first marathon was 4:20. In those days, that was considered a jogging time and I knew people were going to tease me. But I was more fascinated with what women could do if they only had the chance.
― Kathrine Switzer
Kathrine Switzer
Athlete
Two
Race
When I go to the Boston Marathon now, I have wet shoulders—women fall into my arms crying. They're weeping for joy because running has changed their lives. They feel they can do anything.
― Kathrine Switzer
Kathrine Switzer
Running
Fall
Boston
I could feel my anger dissipating as the miles went by--you can't run and stay mad!
― Kathrine Switzer
Kathrine Switzer
Running
Mad
Miles
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.
― Kathrine Switzer
Kathrine Switzer
Running
Men
Boston
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.
― Kathrine Switzer
Kathrine Switzer
Two
Wings
Empowerment
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.
― Kathrine Switzer
Kathrine Switzer
Race
Boston
Changed
Women were afraid and they would never even imagine running a marathon in 1967.
― Kathrine Switzer
Kathrine Switzer
Running
Marathon
Imagine
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.
― Kathrine Switzer
Kathrine Switzer
Moving
Forgiving
Waste
What I've done in this older part of my life is I started foundation called 261 Fearless, named after my old ,1967 Boston Marathon, bib number.I thought we could create training and a communicative, non-judgmental platform, in a movement to let them know they're not alone. Then fearless women can reach out to help women who are fearful and take that first step using the vehicle of running because it's transformational. It works for every woman every time.
― Kathrine Switzer
Kathrine Switzer
Running
Boston
Numbers
I do forgive people when they get it right, even people who in the past I thought were unforgivable.
― Kathrine Switzer
Kathrine Switzer
Past
People
Forgiving
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