Quote by Christopher McDougall

“Running is exercise for the body and the brain.”

— Toni Sorenson

“I guess the basic reason I run is that I think a body, like a brain, should be used, stretched, forced to its limits...I…

— Michael Collins

“Distance running demands a brain-body connection that no other creature is capable of.”

— Christopher McDougall

“If someone wanted to be a runner, you don't tell them to think about running, you tell them to run. And the same simple…

— Markus Zusak

“Running is the most elemental sport there is. We are genetically programmed to do it.”

— John Jerome

“Exercise your genius so often that you live in a perpetual state of runners high.”

— Curtis Tyrone Jones

“I'm convinced that a lot of people run ultramarathons for the same reason they take mood-altering drugs. I don't mean to minimize the gifts…

— Scott Jurek

“People say they can do great things, but runners never become runners until they run, and you will never become whatever it is you…

— Toni Sorenson

Why run? I run because I am an animal. I run because it is part of my genetic wiring. I run because millions of…

— Amby Burfoot

“Know why people run marathons? Because running is rooted in our collective imagination, and our imagination is rooted in running. Language, art, science; space…

— Christopher McDougall

“What a person runs from and what a person runs to aren't always as different as we hope.”

— Robert Charles Wilson

“The human brain is like a freight car, guaranteed to carry a certain capacity but often running empty.”

— Lorraine Gokul