All Christopher McDougall Quotes
- You don't have to be fast. But you'd better be fearless. Better
- Make friends with pain, and you will never be alone.~Ken Chlouber, Colorado miner and creator of the Leadville Trail 100 mile race Alone
- Distance running was revered because it was indispensable; it was the way we survived and thrived and spread across the planet. You ran to eat… Across
- Sometimes,' she said, 'it takes a woman to bring out the best in a man. Best
- There are two goddesses in your heart,†he told them. “The Goddess of Wisdom and the Goddess of Wealth. Everyone thinks they need to get… All
- We run when we're scared, we run when we're ecstatic, we run away from our problems and run around for a good time. Ecstatic
- But you can't muscle through a five-hour run that way; you have to relax into it like easing your body into a hot bath, until… Bath
- Way before we were scratching pictures on caves or beating rhythms on hollow trees we were perfecting the art of combining our breath and mind… Art
- 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 could make you… Alive
- If you don't think you were born to run you're not only denying history. You're denying who you are. Born
- But yeah, Ann [Trason] insisted, running was romantic; and no, of course her friends didn't get it because they'd never broken through. For them, running… Bath
- Blaming the running injury epidemic on big, bad Nike seems too easy - but that's okay, because it's largely their fault. Bad
- If you don't have answers to your problems after a four-hour run, you ain't getting them. Answers
- The Tarahumara would party like this all night, then rouse themselves the next morning to face off in a running race that could last not… According
- Only recently have we come up with the technology to turn lazing around into a way of life. We've taken our sinewy, durable, hunter-gatherer bodies… Artificial
- it’s easy to get outside yourself when you’re thinking about someone else. Easy
- Running is the heart of what it means to be human. Heart
- Ask nothing from your running, and you'll get more than you ever imagined! Ask
- When I'm out on a long run," she continued, "the only thing in life that matters is finishing the run. For once, my brain isn't… All