Christopher McDougall Quotes

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• Endurance, after all, is the only reason we even exist. We think of ourselves as nature's deadliest animals, but the truth is, a naked human…
• Extreme heroism springs from something that no scientific theory can fully explain; it's an illogical impulse that flies in the face of biology, psychology, actuarial…
• For nearly 2 million years, our ancestors survived and thrived and spread across the planet because they could run other mammals into heat exhaustion.
• In 'Tarahumara' land, there was no crime, war or theft. There was no corruption, obesity, drug addiction, greed, wife-beating, child abuse, heart disease, high blood…
• The 'Tarahumara' use their legs 'as designed.' By running at a young age with minimal footwear, they naturally develop the best biomechanical use of their…
• We're constantly told that running will ruin our knees and outrage our hearts, but for nearly all of human existence, it was associated with freedom,…
• We've created an unnatural form of running. It's not just the shoes, but we run on artificial surfaces - straight ahead, hard and steady -…
• -The reason we race isn't so much to beat each other but to be with each other. -The Hopis consider running a form of prayer;…
• Nearly all runners do their slow runs too fast, and their fast runs too slow." Ken Mierke says. "So they're just training their bodies to…
• ...there was some kind of connection between the capacity to love and the capacity to love *running*. The engineering was certainly the same: both depended…
• Know why people run marathons? …Because running is rooted in our collective imagination, and our imagination is rooted in running. Language, art, science; space shuttles,…
• You don't stop running because you get old, you get old because you stop running.
• Perhaps all our troubles - all the violence, obesity, illness, depression, and greed we can't overcome - began when we stopped living as Running People.…
• There's something so universal about that sensation, the way running unites our two most primal impulses: fear and pleasure. We run when we're scared, we…
• 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…
• Running should be free, man.
• He was onto something. Something huge. It wasn't just how to run; it was how to live, the essence of who we are as a…
• Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up, it knows it must outrun the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning in Africa,…
• We say the rarajipari is the game of life, ' Angel said. 'You never know how hard it will be. You never know when it…
• We've got a motto here-you're tougher than you think you are, and you can do more than you think you can.

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