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need a quote idea (Read 808 times)

mamaofthree

Best Present Ever

posted: 5/10/2012 at 7:45 AM

I'm organizing a retirement party for a running friend (she's retiring from work, not running). She's a long-time marathoner and the party will be all runners. We're going to get some item of apparel from our local running store (which is very clubhouse-y) and have it embroidered with something. What can I get put on it (quarter zip pullover probably) that isn't too long and is relevant to retirement and/or running? It could go on the back, or it could be around the logo on the front. Is anyone more creative than I am?

rgilbert

posted: 5/10/2012 at 7:52 AM

I'd put something like "Runners don't retire" on the front. "We quit our day jobs" on the back. Smile

"When a person trains once, nothing happens. When a person forces himself to do a thing a hundred or a thousand times, then he certainly has developed in more ways than physical. Is it raining? That doesn't matter. Am I tired? That doesn't matter, either. Then willpower will be no problem."
Emil Zatopek

cagery

posted: 5/10/2012 at 9:26 AM

A runner must run with dreams in his heart, not money in his pocket.
Emil Zatopek

cagery

posted: 5/10/2012 at 9:28 AM

The first wealth is health.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ileneforward

posted: 5/10/2012 at 9:29 AM

"Watch out! Now I can train all day!"

cagery

posted: 5/10/2012 at 9:30 AM

If I'm free, it's because I'm always running.
Jimi Hendrix

Probably not the same context...

cagery

posted: 5/10/2012 at 9:32 AM

I plan to be running as long as I can and have no plans to stop.
Frank Shorter

jlynnbob

You'll ruin your knees!

posted: 5/10/2012 at 10:16 AM

my tagline, without the strikethrough...

""...the truth that someday, you will go for your last run. But not today—today you got to run." - Matt Crownover (after Western States)

LedLincoln

Food

posted: 5/10/2012 at 12:59 PM

Quote from jlynnbob on 5/10/2012 at 10:16 AM:

my tagline, without the strikethrough...

Ha, I thought you meant, "You'll ruin your knees."

testing testing

Fuzzy

posted: 5/11/2012 at 9:25 AM

There will be a day that you can't run any more. Today is not that day.

PRs: Marathon (2:55:08; '11) Half (1:21:14; '12) 10k (36:28; '11) 5k (17:48; '11)

mitochondria

posted: 5/11/2012 at 11:03 AM

Front: I run for a living

Back: Please stop following me home

John Travolta's pepper farming venture is going well; he's got chillies, they're multiplying.

mamaofthree

Best Present Ever

posted: 5/11/2012 at 11:06 AM

Thanks everyone -- good ideas here.

Slo_Hand

That's me in the back.

posted: 5/11/2012 at 11:24 AM

Master Runner

Kickin @ss since the 40's

Cancer F'in Sucks

waytogo

posted: 5/11/2012 at 2:11 PM

Quote from rgilbert on 5/10/2012 at 7:52 AM:

I'd put something like "Runners don't retire" on the front. "We quit our day jobs" on the back.

This is great. Smile

Smile

stadjak

Interval Junkie --Nobby

posted: 5/11/2012 at 6:11 PM

Quote from rgilbert on 5/10/2012 at 7:52 AM:

I'd put something like "Runners don't retire" on the front. "We quit our day jobs" on the back.

+1 from me too.

2013 Goals: 18:49 5K • 1:25 HM • sub-3 Marathon • run lots of races

Current Status 5/13: challenging my Achilles issue -- building some base

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