Christopher McDougall

“that’s okay; humans are terrific”

— Christopher McDougall

Everyone is built for running.

— Christopher McDougall

“laughin’ about it.”

— Christopher McDougall

Running should be free, man.

— Christopher McDougall

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

— Christopher McDougall

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

— Christopher McDougall

You don't have to be fast. But you'd better be fearless.

— Christopher McDougall

We were born to run; we were born because we run.

— Christopher McDougall

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

— Christopher McDougall

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

— Christopher McDougall

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

— Christopher McDougall

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

— Christopher McDougall

“Running is the same way. Learn it wrong, and you'll never know how good it can feel.”

— Christopher McDougall

“The reason we race isn't so much to beat each other, he understood, but to be with each other.”

— Christopher McDougall

We run when we're scared, we run when we're ecstatic, we run away from our problems and run around for a good…

— Christopher McDougall

“When you track, you're creating causal connections in your mind, because you didn't actually see what the animal did. That's the essence…

— Christopher McDougall

If you don't think you were born to run you're not only denying history. You're denying who you are.

— Christopher McDougall

“That's what I'm saying,' Scott insisted. 'I've been there, man. I've been there a lot. It takes more guts than going fast.”

— Christopher McDougall

“that it took him nearly the entire walk to notice what was happening: his back didn’t hurt. Didn’t hurt a bit. Heyyy…

— Christopher McDougall

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

— Christopher McDougall

“You’ve got this fancy machine, and it’s controlled by a pilot who’s thinking, ‘Okay, how can I run this baby without using…

— Christopher McDougall

The 'Tarahumara' use their legs 'as designed.' By running at a young age with minimal footwear, they naturally develop the best biomechanical…

— Christopher McDougall

Were designed for persistence hunting, which is a mix of running and walking. Whats built into that kind of running is a…

— Christopher McDougall

“Other runners try to disassociate from fatigue by blasting iPods or imagining the roar of the crowd in Olympic Stadium, but Scott…

— Christopher McDougall

In 'Tarahumara' land, there was no crime, war or theft. There was no corruption, obesity, drug addiction, greed, wife-beating, child abuse, heart…

— Christopher McDougall

Perhaps all our troubles - all the violence, obesity, illness, depression, and greed we can't overcome - began when we stopped living…

— Christopher McDougall

“Know why he could do it? Because no one ever told him he couldn’t. No one ever told him he oughta be…

— Christopher McDougall

“Empathy, the Greeks believed, was a source of strength, not softness; the more you recognized yourself in others and connected with their…

— Christopher McDougall

“Wilt Chamberlain, all seven feet one inch and 275 pounds of him, had no problem running a 50-mile ultra when he was…

— Christopher McDougall

Know why people run marathons? …Because running is rooted in our collective imagination, and our imagination is rooted in running. Language, art,…

— Christopher McDougall

Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up, it knows it must outrun the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every…

— Christopher McDougall

“[He] coluldn't quite put his finger on it, but his gut kept telling him that there was some kind of connection between…

— Christopher McDougall

“...in all the Kalahari Desert, only six true hunters remained. The renegades agreed to let Louis hang around, an offer he took…

— Christopher McDougall

That was the real secret of the Tarahumara: they'd never forgotten what it felt like to love running. They remembered that running…

— Christopher McDougall

“Death Valley is the perfect flesh-grilling device, the Foreman Grill in Mother Nature’s cupboard. It’s a big, shimmering sea of salt ringed…

— Christopher McDougall

“Lisa Smith-Batchen, the amazingly sunny and pixie-tailed ultrarunner from Idaho who trained through blizzards to win a six-day race in the Sahara,…

— Christopher McDougall

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

— Christopher McDougall

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

— Christopher McDougall

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

— Christopher McDougall

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

— Christopher McDougall