Christopher McDougall Quotes

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• The reason we race isn't so much to beat each other... but to be with each other.
• That was the real secret of the Tarahumara: they'd never forgotten what it felt like to love running. They remembered that running was mankind's first…
• Try the meditation of the trail, just walk along looking at the trail at your feet and don't look about and just fall into a…
• The words of the social critic Eric Hoffer were ringing true: "Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and turns into a…
• Faced with the almost inescapable conclusion that it had been selling lemons, Nike shifted into make-lemonade mode. Jeff Pisciotta became head of a top-secret and…
• We were born to run; we were born because we run.
• If you can run six miles on a summer day, then you, my friend, are a lethal weapon in the animal kingdom.
• The only way to truly conquer something, as every great philosopher and geneticist will tell you, is to love it.
• Were designed for persistence hunting, which is a mix of running and walking. Whats built into that kind of running is a sense of pleasure.…
• Anyone can do running. Running should be easy. It should be fun. It should include everyone. It shouldn't be a punishment for eating cheesecake, which…
• There is a growing subculture of barefoot runners, people who got rid of their shoes. And what they have found uniformly is you get rid…
• We are the biggest sissies in the jungle. Every other animal is stronger than we are - they have fangs, they have claws, they have…
• If you read folklore and mythology, any kind of myths, any kind of tall tales, running is always associated with freedom and vitality and youthfulness…
• I have the idea that running shoes are based on a kind of cult idea - that our feet are flawed and we need shoes…
• Deny your nature, and it will erupt in some other, uglier way.
• When it comes to mentors, you can't beat survival.
• Humans are built for endurance, not speed. We're awful sprinters compared to every other animal. We try to run our races as if they were…
• Even Charles Darwin, that human decoder ring of bizarre behavior, found the idea of saving a stranger's life to be a total head-scratcher.
• I received the best advice for running I ever heard: 'You're not going to win, so just relax. If it feels like work, you're running…
• One of the most dangerous and best-kept secrets of the medical profession is the epidemic of anesthesiologists who are addicted to their own drugs.

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