George A. Sheehan Quotes

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• Sport is where an entire life can be compressed into a few hours, where the emotions of a lifetime can be felt on an acre…
• The desire to run comes from deep within us - from the unconscious, the instinctive, the intuitive.
• Everyone is an athlete. The only difference is that some of us are in training, and some are not.
• The obsession with running is really an obsession with the potential for more and more life.
• The most important thing I learned [from running] is that there is only one runner in this race, and that is me.
• No matter how old I get, the race remains one of life's most rewarding experiences.
• Sweat cleanses from the inside. It comes from places a shower will never reach.
• The mind's first step to self-awareness must be through the body.
• To keep from decaying, to be a winner, the athlete must accept pain - not only accept it, but look for it, live with it,…
• Success rests with having the courage and endurance and, above all, the will to become the person you are, however peculiar that may be. Then…
• Out on the roads there is fitness and self-discovery and the persons we were destined to be.
• I have met my hero, and he is me.
• Nothing is more certain than the defeat of a man who gives up.
• No matter how old I get, the race remains one of life's most rewarding experiences. My times become slower and slower, but the experience of…
• To make your life a work of art, you must have the material to work with. The race, any race, is just such an experience.
• Listen to your body. Do not be a blind and deaf tenant.
• Once you have decided that winning isn't everything, you become a winner.
• 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 with…
• The answer to the big questions in running is the same as the answer to the big questions in life: Do the best with what…
• The more I run, the more I want to run, and the more I live a life conditioned and influenced and fashioned by my running.…

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