Mile Quotes

"Take a two-mile walk every morning before breakfast."
-Harry S Truman

"Until you walk a mile in another man's moccasins you can't imagine the smell."
-Robert Byrne

"He was the kind of worker who went the extra mile."
-Bill Mcclellan

"It's a safe 10-mile route for people to enjoy the ride."
-Tom Reed

"We want to have a better progression of distances. Maybe the Holy Bull will be run at a mile and the Fountain of Youth and Florida Derby are run at 11/8 mile. And maybe, on the same day as the Holy Bull, there's a 61/2-furlong [companion] stakes and on Fountain of Youth day there's a 71/2-furlong stakes."
-Scott Savin

"Do more than is required. What is the distance between someone who achieves their goals consistently and those who spend their lives and careers merely following? The extra mile."
-Gary Ryan Blair

"I like where I'm at, but I have a long way to go. I set a pace and held on to it. I decided to run at a five-minute (mile) pace. I hit it dead even and broke out in front. That was my goal."
-Jeff Campbell

"We don't have any roads that are striped. It costs $650 (per mile) to put lines on the road."
-Troy Hendren

"I have an elderly congregation. For some people, to even get out of a chair is a major effort, and they deserve credit. If they do armchair aerobics, for every 20 minutes they get one mile."
-Nancy Evans

"We go the extra mile. If we don't have it here, we go running to get it."
-Lea Klock

"Every mile is two in winter."
-George Herbert

"They all hit it a mile. It's not that unusual to see a kid hit it 350 yards. It's just crazy how far they hit it."
-Brian Johnson

"We were the best team by a mile and we deserved to win. We won two penalties because we created clear situations and the ref had no choice."
-David O'leary

"They often inspire great loyalty as well. If the employee is strapped, the company as a family is there for them; and alternately, if the company is in trouble, the workers are willing to go the extra mile to help the company and the family."
-Danny Miller

"It's the most consistent company on the JSE over the past 11 years by a mile."
-Peter Armitage

"Books to the ceiling, Books to the sky, My pile of books is a mile high. How I love them! How I need them! I'll have a long beard by the time I read them."
-Arnold Lobel

"The pedigree on the bottom is good for 1 1/8 miles or a mile and a quarter."
-Brandon Warren

"People coming from sea level love it up here. It seems like a mile high is where the break off is for the effects of altitude. That's where the deer turn into elk. We have nothing but elk up here."
-Craig Stuller

"If I can run a four-minute mile, I'd win a gold medal because no one has ever done it before."
-Cory Mcgee

"She really had a great kick today. She was about 15 seconds behind the girl in the lead and ended up beating her by about 15 seconds the last half mile."
-Greg Meister

"This plan will give us a modern fleet offering maximum flexibility, lower seat-mile costs and greater fuel efficiency."
-Margaret Jackson

"It's a unique place, kind of like Bristol on steroids. It's a lot different than all of these 1 1/2-mile tracks that it seems like we're always running on."
-Paul Menard

"He walked up, took the yardage chart from his pocket. Examined it, didn't even look back as the caddy handed him his four iron, then he hit it a mile."
-Bill Paxton

"Maybe running against Chelmsford and Haverhill early - and on our home (3.1-mile) course - will help us."
-Brenda Clark

"It was about a 3-mile stretch. Flags were put up on alternating poles on each side of the road."
-Dawn Hudson

"Whether we like it or not we have a 200-mile shared border with New Hampshire."
-Rep. Richard Hube

"Doctors and scientists said that breaking the four-minute mile was impossible, that one would die in the attempt. Thus, when I got up from the track after collapsing at the finish line, I figured I was dead."
-Roger Bannister

"My daughter is still here and is single, and Greg is married. But in typical Greek fashion, he lives about a mile and a half down the street."
-Jerry Floor