"There is a growing subculture of barefoot runners,……" — Christopher McDougall
"There is a growing subculture of barefoot runners, people who got rid of their shoes. And what they have found uniformly is you get rid of the shoes, you get rid of the stress, you get rid of the injuries and the ailments."
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59 Quotes by Christopher McDougall
Christopher McDougall has 59 quotes on this site.
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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…
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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…
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The words of the social critic Eric Hoffer were ringing true: "Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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We are the biggest sissies in the jungle. Every other animal is stronger than we are - they have fangs,…
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If you read folklore and mythology, any kind of myths, any kind of tall tales, running is always associated with…
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More Ailments Quotes
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one of 45 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Dissonance is as fatal in ailments of the mind as it is in those of the body.
— Georges Rodenbach
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Associated with this weight gain are increased risks in adulthood for joint problems, angina, high blood pressure, heart attacks, strokes,…
— Jeff Schweitzer
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My other bodily ailments have become mere matters of history.
— William Banting
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When you talk about your troubles, your ailments, your diseases, your hurts, you give longer life to what makes you…
— Thomas Dreier
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Homeopathy is the safest and more reliable approach to ailments and has withstood the assaults of established medical practice for…
— Yehudi Menuhin
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As a physician I have sympathy for patients suffering from pain and other medical conditions. Although I understand many believe…
— Bill Frist
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I was hurting. I had some ailments I was dealing with. It's not like I was holding out.
— Alonzo Mourning
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Save for minor ailments and accident, my battalion is practically immune from sickness; colds come and go as a matter…
— Patrick MacGill
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Pranayam is the right science of breathing where deep, regulated and rhythmic breathing is done along with mental purification. Its…
— Virchand Gandhi
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In all modesty, we must admit that governments are not always the best doctors when it comes to diagnosing economic…
— Kim Campbell
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In the future, Chiropractic will be valued for its preventative qualities as much as for relieving and adjusting the cause…
— B. J. Palmer
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In the nineteeth century, knitting was prescribed to women as a cure for nervousness and hysteria. Many new knitters find…
— Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
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