"To keep from decaying, to be a winner,……" — George A. Sheehan
"To keep from decaying, to be a winner, the athlete must accept pain - not only accept it, but look for it, live with it, learn not to fear it."
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55 Quotes by George A. Sheehan
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Sport is where an entire life can be compressed into a few hours, where the emotions of a lifetime can…
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The desire to run comes from deep within us - from the unconscious, the instinctive, the intuitive.
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Everyone is an athlete. The only difference is that some of us are in training, and some are not.
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The obsession with running is really an obsession with the potential for more and more life.
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The most important thing I learned [from running] is that there is only one runner in this race, and that…
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No matter how old I get, the race remains one of life's most rewarding experiences.
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Sweat cleanses from the inside. It comes from places a shower will never reach.
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The mind's first step to self-awareness must be through the body.
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Success rests with having the courage and endurance and, above all, the will to become the person you are, however…
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Out on the roads there is fitness and self-discovery and the persons we were destined to be.
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I have met my hero, and he is me.
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Nothing is more certain than the defeat of a man who gives up.
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Today we often think that before we start living a religious life we have first to accept the creedal doctrines…
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Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice…
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If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other…
— Saint Augustine
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Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do…
— Marcus Aurelius
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If God should desire to raise us to the position of one who is an intimate and shares his secrets,…
— Teresa of Avila
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The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions.
— James A. Baldwin
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Sometimes I have wrinkles, in the morning. It depends on what kind of night that I had. I accept myself…
— Antonio Banderas
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I tell you the solemn truth, that the doctrine of the Trinity is not so difficult to accept for a…
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But the leaders of the OIC could not even accept Mahathir's proposal, yet they talk about respect and honour.
— Abu Bakar Bashir
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Any man who does not accept the conditions of life sells his soul.
— Charles Baudelaire
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During the campaign for re-election, Barack Obama at least made vague references to a willingness to accept $3 trillion of…
— Bob Beauprez
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I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity.
— Simone de Beauvoir
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