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Christopher McDougall has 59 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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The reason we race isn't so much to beat each other... but to be with each other.
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That was the real secret of the Tarahumara: they'd never forgotten what it felt like to love running. They remembered that running…
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Try the meditation of the trail, just walk along looking at the trail at your feet and don't look about and just…
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The words of the social critic Eric Hoffer were ringing true: "Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and…
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Faced with the almost inescapable conclusion that it had been selling lemons, Nike shifted into make-lemonade mode. Jeff Pisciotta became head of…
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We were born to run; we were born because we run.
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If you can run six miles on a summer day, then you, my friend, are a lethal weapon in the animal kingdom.
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The only way to truly conquer something, as every great philosopher and geneticist will tell you, is to love it.
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Were designed for persistence hunting, which is a mix of running and walking. Whats built into that kind of running is a…
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Anyone can do running. Running should be easy. It should be fun. It should include everyone. It shouldn't be a punishment for…
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There is a growing subculture of barefoot runners, people who got rid of their shoes. And what they have found uniformly is…
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We are the biggest sissies in the jungle. Every other animal is stronger than we are - they have fangs, they have…
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They say the breaks even up in the long run, and the trick is to be a long-distance runner.
— Chuck Knox
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We've got to be long distance runners on the spiritual path. We want to run as fast as we can, but at…
— Goswami Kriyananda
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In the big city, if the man next door happens to be a slum landlord, a Mafia bag man, or a long…
— Hal Higdon
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You learn to run like a sprinter, you'll be a great distance runner
— Alberto Salazar
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I want to be a lawyer, a dancer, an actress, a mother, a wife, a childrens author, a distance runner, a poet,…
— Rachel Corrie
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My guess is many top athletes, distance runners included, use performance-enhancing drugs, enough so that the problem must be tackled.
— Bill Rodgers
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We are just not made up to be middle distance runners.
— Alberto Juantorena
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Finland has produced so many brilliant distance runners because back home it costs $2.50 a gallon for gas.
— Unknown Author
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Man is a distance runner as a consequence of hundreds of thousands of years of chasing antelopes, horses, elephants, wild cattle, and…
— Paul Shepard
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Long-distance runners have to be very strange people. You have to really want to do it. You don't have to win or…
— Ted Corbitt
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Back in the 1970s, I ate a high-protein diet to get bigger and stronger. As a senior at Utah State, I weighed…
— Dan John
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Actually, ambition won't get you that far. You'll shift gears. You'll see something that's shinier. But if you believe... then you're the…
— Sam Abell
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