Christopher McDougall

Everyone is built for running.

— Christopher McDougall

“that’s okay; humans are terrific”

— Christopher McDougall

Running should be free, man.

— Christopher McDougall

“laughin’ about it.”

— Christopher McDougall

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

— Christopher McDougall

When it comes to mentors, you can't beat survival.

— Christopher McDougall

it’s easy to get outside yourself when you’re thinking about someone else.

— Christopher McDougall

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

— Christopher McDougall

“Getting air may have determined the way we got our bodies.”

— Christopher McDougall

Deny your nature, and it will erupt in some other, uglier way.

— Christopher McDougall

“To live with ghosts requires solitude. —ANNE MICHAELS, Fugitive Pieces”

— Christopher McDougall

“Suffering is humbling. It pays to know how to get your butt kicked.”

— Christopher McDougall

“to the tarahumara, asking direct questions is a show of force, a demand for a possession inside their head.”

— Christopher McDougall

“Yah, right. Crazy people. Mas Locos. But one thing about crazy people--they see things other people don't.”

— Christopher McDougall

“When you can't answer the question, flip it over. Forget what makes something go fast--what makes it slow down?”

— Christopher McDougall

“The reason some people use their genetic gift for running and others don't is because the brain is a bargain shopper.”

— Christopher McDougall

One of the most dangerous and best-kept secrets of the medical profession is the epidemic of anesthesiologists who are addicted to their…

— Christopher McDougall

“The only way to conquer something, as every great philosopher and geneticist will tell you, is to love it.”

— Christopher McDougall

“Nemůžeš běhat do kopce a mít špatnou biomechaniku," vysvětlil mi. "Prostě to nefunguje. Když se pokusíš s napřímenou nohou přistát na patu,…

— 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

We don't woo our wives with clubs. We don't leave old folks on ice floes. And maybe the time has come to…

— Christopher McDougall

“Poetry, music, forests, oceans, solitude—they were what developed enormous spiritual strength. I came to realize that spirit, as much or more than…

— Christopher McDougall

“... this ninety-five-year-old man came hiking twenty-five miles over the mountain. Know why he could do it? Because no one ever told…

— Christopher McDougall

“There was something terribly sad, yet terribly uplifting, about watching this prophet of the ancient art of distance running turning his back…

— Christopher McDougall

“I’m supposed to spread my fingers as wide as they were with the rubber band, mash my palms hard into the floor,…

— 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

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

“Once you learn to think like another creature, you can anticipate what it will do and react before it ever acts. If…

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

— 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

“Even your breakfast burrito plays a role; Lieberman's investigations had revealed that as our diet shifted over the centuries from chewy stuff…

— Christopher McDougall

“while Jack Kirk—a.k.a. “the Dipsea Demon”—was still running the hellacious Dipsea Trail Race at age ninety-six. The race begins with a 671-step…

— 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

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

— Christopher McDougall

Sometimes,' she said, 'it takes a woman to bring out the best in a man.

— Christopher McDougall

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

— Christopher McDougall

“You run on the earth and run with the earth, you can run forever.”

— Christopher McDougall