Race Quotes by Christopher McDougall

Running is the heart of what it means to be human.

— Christopher McDougall

We were born to run; we were born because we run.

— Christopher McDougall

Running should be free, man.

— Christopher McDougall

The reason we race isn't so much to beat each other... but to be with each other.

— Christopher McDougall

“Distance running demands a brain-body connection that no other creature is capable of.”

— Christopher McDougall

“The reason we race isn't so much to beat each other, he understood, but to be with each other.”

— Christopher McDougall

“Running is the same way. Learn it wrong, and you'll never know how good it can feel.”

— Christopher McDougall

I received the best advice for running I ever heard: 'You're not going to win, so just relax. If it feels like…

— Christopher McDougall

Way before we were scratching pictures on caves or beating rhythms on hollow trees we were perfecting the art of combining our…

— Christopher McDougall

We run when we're scared, we run when we're ecstatic, we run away from our problems and run around for a good…

— Christopher McDougall

That was the real secret of the Tarahumara: they'd never forgotten what it felt like to love running. They remembered that running…

— Christopher McDougall

Make friends with pain, and you will never be alone.~Ken Chlouber, Colorado miner and creator of the Leadville Trail 100 mile race

— Christopher McDougall

But you can't muscle through a five-hour run that way; you have to relax into it like easing your body into a…

— Christopher McDougall

Anyone can do running. Running should be easy. It should be fun. It should include everyone. It shouldn't be a punishment for…

— Christopher McDougall

“We were born to run; we were born because we run. We're all Running People, as the Tarahumara have always known”

— Christopher McDougall

There's this kind of war on running - people keep telling you you'll get hurt, get injured, that you need orthotics, that…

— Christopher McDougall

“Strictly by accident, Scott stumbled upon the most advanced weapon in the ultrarunner's arsenal: instead of cringing from fatigue, you embrace it.…

— Christopher McDougall

We've created an unnatural form of running. It's not just the shoes, but we run on artificial surfaces - straight ahead, hard…

— Christopher McDougall

“You ran to eat and to avoid being eaten; you ran to find a mate and impress her, and with her you…

— Christopher McDougall

The Tarahumara would party like this all night, then rouse themselves the next morning to face off in a running race that…

— Christopher McDougall

Were designed for persistence hunting, which is a mix of running and walking. Whats built into that kind of running is a…

— Christopher McDougall

Know why people run marathons? …Because running is rooted in our collective imagination, and our imagination is rooted in running. Language, art,…

— Christopher McDougall

“You’ve got this fancy machine, and it’s controlled by a pilot who’s thinking, ‘Okay, how can I run this baby without using…

— Christopher McDougall

“Distance running was revered because it was indispensable; it was the way we survived and thrived and spread across the planet. You…

— Christopher McDougall

“...in all the Kalahari Desert, only six true hunters remained. The renegades agreed to let Louis hang around, an offer he took…

— Christopher McDougall

“That was the real secret of the Tarahumara: they'd never forgotten what it felt like to love running. They remembered that running…

— Christopher McDougall

“Lisa Smith-Batchen, the amazingly sunny and pixie-tailed ultrarunner from Idaho who trained through blizzards to win a six-day race in the Sahara,…

— Christopher McDougall

That was the real secret of the Tarahumara: they'd never forgotten what it felt like to love running. They remembered that running…

— Christopher McDougall

“He’d figured out the body, so now it was on to the brain. Specifically: How do you make anyone actually want to…

— Christopher McDougall

Distance running was revered because it was indispensable; it was the way we survived and thrived and spread across the planet. You…

— Christopher McDougall

But yeah, Ann [Trason] insisted, running was romantic; and no, of course her friends didn't get it because they'd never broken through.…

— Christopher McDougall

“The reason we race isn't so much to beat each other, but to be with each other. It's easy to get outside…

— Christopher McDougall

We're constantly told that running will ruin our knees and outrage our hearts, but for nearly all of human existence, it was…

— Christopher McDougall

Humans are built for endurance, not speed. We're awful sprinters compared to every other animal. We try to run our races as…

— Christopher McDougall

“For them, running was a miserable two miles motivated soley by size 6 jeans: get on the scale, get depressed, get your…

— Christopher McDougall

“Other runners try to disassociate from fatigue by blasting iPods or imagining the roar of the crowd in Olympic Stadium, but Scott…

— Christopher McDougall

When I'm out on a long run," she continued, "the only thing in life that matters is finishing the run. For once,…

— Christopher McDougall

-The reason we race isn't so much to beat each other but to be with each other. -The Hopis consider running a…

— Christopher McDougall

If you read folklore and mythology, any kind of myths, any kind of tall tales, running is always associated with freedom and…

— Christopher McDougall

We're designed for persistence hunting, which is a mix of running and walking. What's built into that kind of running is a…

— Christopher McDougall