The obsession with running is really an obsession with the potential for more and more life. — George A. Sheehan Copy Share Image
There are as many reasons for running as there are days in a year… But mostly I run because I am an… — George A. Sheehan Copy Share Image
Once you have decided that winning isn't everything, you become a winner. — George A. Sheehan Copy Share Image
Life is a positive-sum game. Everyone from the gold medallist to the last finisher can rejoice in a personal victory. — George A. Sheehan Copy Share Image
To make your life a work of art, you must have the material to work with. The race, any race, is just… — George A. Sheehan Copy Share Image
Fitness is just a stage you pass through on the way to becoming a racer. — George A. Sheehan Copy Share Image
The real competition is against the little voice inside you that wants to quit — George A. Sheehan Copy Share Image
To know you are one with what you are doing, to know that you are a complete athlete, begins with believing you… — George A. Sheehan Copy Share Image
Running is just such a monastery- a retreat, a place to commune with God and yourself, a place for psychological and spiritual… — George A. Sheehan Copy Share Image
The more I run, the more I want to run, and the more I live a life conditioned and influenced and fashioned… — George A. Sheehan Copy Share Image
Like everyone else, I want to be challenged. I want to find out whether or not I am a coward. I want… — George A. Sheehan Copy Share Image
For every runner who tours the world running marathons, there are thousands who run to hear leaves and listen to rain and… — George A. Sheehan Copy Share Image
Running makes you an athlete in all areas of life...trained in the basics, prepared for whatever comes, ready to fill each hour… — George A. Sheehan Copy Share Image
The desire to run comes from deep within us — from the unconscious, the intuitive, the instinctive. And that desire becomes a… — George A. Sheehan Copy Share Image
We who run...are different from those who merely study us. We are out there experiencing what they are trying to put into… — George A. Sheehan Copy Share Image
The key then is to find your own mountain, otherwise you will be competing with people who are not even in your… — George A. Sheehan Copy Share Image
Some think guts is sprinting at the end of a race. But guts is what got you there to begin with. Guts… — George A. Sheehan Copy Share Image
No matter how old I get, the race remains one of life's most rewarding experiences. My times become slower and slower, but… — George A. Sheehan Copy Share Image
There are as many reasons for running as there are days in the year, years in my life. But mostly I run… — George A. Sheehan Copy Share Image
Everyone is an athlete. The only difference is that some of us are in training, and some are not. — George A. Sheehan Copy Share Image
The most important thing I learned [from running] is that there is only one runner in this race, and that is me. — George A. Sheehan Copy Share Image
I run each day to preserve the self I attained the day before and to secure the self yet to be. — George A. Sheehan Copy Share Image
There is nothing more certain than the defeat of the man who gives up. — George A. Sheehan Copy Share Image
The desire to run comes from deep within us - from the unconscious, the instinctive, the intuitive. — George A. Sheehan Copy Share Image
No matter how old I get, the race remains one of life's most rewarding experiences. — George A. Sheehan Copy Share Image
Sweat cleanses from the inside. It comes from places a shower will never reach. — George A. Sheehan Copy Share Image
Out on the roads there is fitness and self-discovery and the persons we were destined to be. — George A. Sheehan Copy Share Image
People begin running for any number of motives, but we stick to it for one basic reason-to find out who we really… — George A. Sheehan Copy Share Image
On the roads, I can see truth revealed whole without thought or reason. There I experience the sudden understanding that comes unasked,… — George A. Sheehan Copy Share Image
The answer to the big questions in running is the same as the answer to the big questions in life: Do the… — George A. Sheehan Copy Share Image
To keep from decaying, to be a winner, the athlete must accept pain - not only accept it, but look for it,… — George A. Sheehan Copy Share Image
Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling, enduring, and accomplishing. — George A. Sheehan Copy Share Image
Everyone is an athlete. The only difference is that some of us are in training, and some are not. — George A. Sheehan Copy Share Image
If you want to win anything - a race, yourself, your life - you have to go a little berserk. — George A. Sheehan Copy Share Image
No matter how old I get, the race remains one of life's most rewarding experiences. — George A. Sheehan Copy Share Image
Exercise is done against one's wishes and maintained only because the alternative is worse. — George A. Sheehan Copy Share Image
The real competition is against the little voice inside you that wants to quit — George A. Sheehan Copy Share Image
Running makes you an athlete in all areas of life...trained in the basics, prepared for whatever comes, ready to fill each hour and deal… — George A. Sheehan Copy Share Image
Running is just such a monastery- a retreat, a place to commune with God and yourself, a place for psychological and spiritual renewal. — George A. Sheehan Copy Share Image
For every runner who tours the world running marathons, there are thousands who run to hear leaves and listen to rain and look to… — George A. Sheehan Copy Share Image
If you want to find the answers to the Big Questions about your soul, you'd best begin with the Little Answers about your body. — George A. Sheehan Copy Share Image
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