George A. Sheehan Quotes

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The desire to run comes from deep within us - from the unconscious, the instinctive, the intuitive.

George A. Sheehan
Because until we write it down, we don't know what is actually at the root of our lives.

George A. Sheehan
Fitness has to be fun. If it is not play there will be no fitness. Play, you see, is where the process. Fitness is merely the product.

George A. Sheehan
Do not tell me what to do, tell me what you do. Do not tell me what is good for me, tell me what is good for you. If, at the same time, you reveal the you in me, if you become a mirror to my inner self, then you have made a reader and a friend.

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Some think guts is sprinting at the end of a race. But guts is what got you there to begin with. Guts start back in the hills with 6 miles to go and you're thinking of how you can get out of this race without anyone noticing. Guts begin when you still have forty minutes of torture left and you're already hurting more than you ever remember.

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I run each day to preserve the self I attained the day before and to secure the self yet to be.

George A. Sheehan
Like everyone else, I want to be challenged. I want to find out whether or not I am a coward. I want to see how much effort I can put out... what I can endure... if I measure up. Running allows that.

George A. Sheehan
People begin running for any number of motives, but we stick to it for one basic reason-to find out who we really are.

George A. Sheehan
The more I run, the more I want to run, and the more I live a life conditioned and influenced and fashioned by my running. And the more I run, the more certain I am that I am heading for my real goal: to become the person I am.

George A. Sheehan
For every runner who tours the world running marathons, there are thousands who run to hear the leaves and listen to the rain, and look to the day when it is suddenly as easy as a bird in flight.

George A. Sheehan
There are those of us who are always about to live. We are waiting until things change, until there is more time, until we are less tired, until we get a promotion, until we settle down / until, until, until. It always seems as if there is some major event that must occur in our lives before we begin living.

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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.

George A. Sheehan
Find your own play, your own self-renewing compulsion, and you will become the person you are meant to be.

George A. Sheehan
No matter how old I get, the race remains one of life's most rewarding experiences.

George A. Sheehan
Once you have decided that winning isn't everything, you become a winner.

George A. Sheehan
I will not last forever. But I am damn well going to know I have been here.

George A. Sheehan
And while these pounds were being shed, while the physiological miracles were occurring with the heart and muscle and metabolism, psychological marvels were taking place as well. Just so, the world over, bodies, minds, and souls are constantly being born again, during miles on the road.

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There are as many reasons for running as there are days in a year.... But mostly I run because I am an animal and a child.

George A. Sheehan
The mind's first step to self-awareness must be through the body.

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We who run...are different from those who merely study us. We are out there experiencing what they are trying to put into words.

George A. Sheehan
Everyone is an athlete. The only difference is that some of us are in training, and some are not.

George A. Sheehan
We may think there is willpower involved, but more likely... change is due to want power. Wanting the new addiction more than the old one. Wanting the new me in preference to the person I am now.

George A. Sheehan
The answer to the big questions in running is the same as the answer to the big questions in life: Do the best with what you've got.

George A. Sheehan
Exercise is done against one's wishes and maintained only because the alternative is worse.

George A. Sheehan