Running Quotes by Christopher McDougall

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

— Christopher McDougall

Everyone is built for running.

— Christopher McDougall

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

— Christopher McDougall

Running should be free, man.

— Christopher McDougall

“Ask nothing from running and you'll get more than you ever imagined”

— Christopher McDougall

“I just don’t think I’m built for running fifty miles,” I said. “Everyone is built for running,” he said.”

— Christopher McDougall

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

— Christopher McDougall

If you don't have answers to your problems after a four-hour run, you ain't getting them.

— Christopher McDougall

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

— Christopher McDougall

“Ask nothing from your running, in other words, and you’ll get more than you ever imagined.”

— Christopher McDougall

“We do not stop running because we get old, we get old because we stop running”

— Christopher McDougall

Ask nothing from your running, and you'll get more than you ever imagined!

— Christopher McDougall

We wouldn't be alive without love we wouldn't have survived without running maybe we shouldn't be surprised that getting better at one…

— 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

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

Perhaps all our troubles - all the violence, obesity, illness, depression, and greed we can't overcome - began when we stopped living…

— 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

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

He was onto something. Something huge. It wasn't just how to run; it was how to live, the essence of who we…

— Christopher McDougall

“If you can run six miles on a summer day then you, my friend, are a lethal weapon in the animal kingdom.…

— 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

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

— 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

I have the idea that running shoes are based on a kind of cult idea - that our feet are flawed and…

— Christopher McDougall

...there was some kind of connection between the capacity to love and the capacity to love *running*. The engineering was certainly the…

— 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

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

— 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

There are two goddesses in your heart,” he told them. “The Goddess of Wisdom and the Goddess of Wealth. Everyone thinks they…

— 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

“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

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

— 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

Nearly all runners do their slow runs too fast, and their fast runs too slow." Ken Mierke says. "So they're just training…

— 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

“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

If you don't think you were born to run you're not only denying history. You're denying who you are.

— Christopher McDougall

You don't stop running because you get old, you get old because you stop running.

— Christopher McDougall