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Best Running Quotes by Christopher McDougall
- Running should be free, man.
- He was onto something. Something huge. It wasn't just how to run; it was how to live, the essence of who we are as a…
- Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up, it knows it must outrun the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning in Africa,…
- Distance running was revered because it was indispensable; it was the way we survived and thrived and spread across the planet. You ran to eat…
- There are two goddesses in your heart,” he told them. “The Goddess of Wisdom and the Goddess of Wealth. Everyone thinks they need to get…
- We run when we're scared, we run when we're ecstatic, we run away from our problems and run around for a good time.
- But you can't muscle through a five-hour run that way; you have to relax into it like easing your body into a hot bath, until…
- Way before we were scratching pictures on caves or beating rhythms on hollow trees we were perfecting the art of combining our breath and mind…
- We wouldn't be alive without love we wouldn't have survived without running maybe we shouldn't be surprised that getting better at one could make you…
- If you don't think you were born to run you're not only denying history. You're denying who you are.
- But yeah, Ann [Trason] insisted, running was romantic; and no, of course her friends didn't get it because they'd never broken through. For them, running…
- Blaming the running injury epidemic on big, bad Nike seems too easy - but that's okay, because it's largely their fault.
- If you don't have answers to your problems after a four-hour run, you ain't getting them.
- The Tarahumara would party like this all night, then rouse themselves the next morning to face off in a running race that could last not…
- Running is the heart of what it means to be human.
- Ask nothing from your running, and you'll get more than you ever imagined!
- When I'm out on a long run," she continued, "the only thing in life that matters is finishing the run. For once, my brain isn't…
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
- Let not your mind run on what you lack as much as on what you have already. — Marcus Aurelius
- We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears… — Marcus Aurelius
- The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit. — Teresa of Avila
- If you look at the themes that he struck from the minute he started running for president through today, there is a… — David Axelrod