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Running Quotes by Christopher McDougall
- The reason we race isn't so much to beat each other... but to be with each other.
- That was the real secret of the Tarahumara: they'd never forgotten what it felt like to love running. They remembered that running was mankind's first…
- Try the meditation of the trail, just walk along looking at the trail at your feet and don't look about and just fall into a…
- The words of the social critic Eric Hoffer were ringing true: "Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and turns into a…
- Faced with the almost inescapable conclusion that it had been selling lemons, Nike shifted into make-lemonade mode. Jeff Pisciotta became head of a top-secret and…
- We were born to run; we were born because we run.
- If you can run six miles on a summer day, then you, my friend, are a lethal weapon in the animal kingdom.
- Were designed for persistence hunting, which is a mix of running and walking. Whats built into that kind of running is a sense of pleasure.…
- Anyone can do running. Running should be easy. It should be fun. It should include everyone. It shouldn't be a punishment for eating cheesecake, which…
- If you read folklore and mythology, any kind of myths, any kind of tall tales, running is always associated with freedom and vitality and youthfulness…
- I have the idea that running shoes are based on a kind of cult idea - that our feet are flawed and we need shoes…
- Humans are built for endurance, not speed. We're awful sprinters compared to every other animal. We try to run our races as if they were…
- I received the best advice for running I ever heard: 'You're not going to win, so just relax. If it feels like work, you're running…
- For nearly 2 million years, our ancestors survived and thrived and spread across the planet because they could run other mammals into heat exhaustion.
- The 'Tarahumara' use their legs 'as designed.' By running at a young age with minimal footwear, they naturally develop the best biomechanical use of their…
- We're constantly told that running will ruin our knees and outrage our hearts, but for nearly all of human existence, it was associated with freedom,…
- We've created an unnatural form of running. It's not just the shoes, but we run on artificial surfaces - straight ahead, hard and steady -…
- -The reason we race isn't so much to beat each other but to be with each other. -The Hopis consider running a form of prayer;…
- Nearly all runners do their slow runs too fast, and their fast runs too slow." Ken Mierke says. "So they're just training their bodies to…
- ...there was some kind of connection between the capacity to love and the capacity to love *running*. The engineering was certainly the same: both depended…
More Running Quotes
- I'm hoping someday that some kid, black or white, will hit more home runs than myself. Whoever it is, I'd be pulling… — Hank Aaron
- I have nothing against 3-D in theory. But I've also never run to the movies because something's in 3-D. — J. J. Abrams
- To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does… — Aristotle
- I exercise everyday. I swim, I bike, I run and I go to the gym. — Lance Armstrong
- I believe that every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don't intend to waste any of mine running around doing… — Neil Armstrong
- I don't run a car, have never run a car. I could say that this is because I have this extremely tender… — David Attenborough
- We thought we were running away from the grownups, and now we are the grownups. — Margaret Atwood
- Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to… — Wystan Hugh Auden