Best George A. Sheehan Quotes
- Exercise: you don't have time not to Exercise
- Running is just such a monastery- a retreat, a place to commune with God and yourself, a place for psychological and spiritual renewal. Commune
- And while these pounds were being shed, while the physiological miracles were occurring with the heart and muscle and metabolism, psychological marvels were taking place… Bodies
- Anything that changes your values changes your behaviour. Behaviour
- Why race? The need to be tested, perhaps; the need to take risks; and the chance to be number one. Chance
- There are as many reasons for running as there are days in a year.... But mostly I run because I am an animal and a… Animal
- We who run...are different from those who merely study us. We are out there experiencing what they are trying to put into words. Endurance
- If you want to win anything - a race, yourself, your life - you have to go a little berserk. Berserk
- Of all the races, there is no better stage for heroism than a marathon. All
- If you want to find the answers to the Big Questions about your soul, you'd best begin with the Little Answers about your body. Answers
- The key then is to find your own mountain, otherwise you will be competing with people who are not even in your event, and running… Competing
- Every runner is an experiment of one. Every Runner
- There is no substitute for learning to live in our bodies. Bodies
- I have a bumper sticker that Bowen created that says Regardless of my kids grades, they have an 'A' in my book'. Without play the… All
- The study of motivation goes back to the Greeks. Their sports were essential to their education. They saw in sports the integration of body, mind… Athletics
- People begin running for any number of motives, but we stick to it for one basic reason-to find out who we really are. Any
- On the roads, I can see truth revealed whole without thought or reason. There I experience the sudden understanding that comes unasked, unbidden. I simply… Comes Unasked
- Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing. Accomplishing
- Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the person you believe you were meant to be. Believe
- We may think there is willpower involved, but more likely... change is due to want power. Wanting the new addiction more than the old one.… Addiction
- Exercise is done against one's wishes and maintained only because the alternative is worse. Alternative
- There are those of us who are always about to live. We are waiting until things change, until there is more time, until we are… Always Seems
- It's very hard in the beginning to understand that the whole idea is not to beat the other runners. Eventually you learn that the competition… Beat
- The distance runner is mysteriously reconciling the separations of body and mind, of pain and pleasure, of the conscious and the unconscious. He is repairing… Body
- The true runner is a very fortunate person. He has found something in him that is just perfect. Fortunate