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“It's very hard in the beginning to understand that the whole idea is not to beat the other runners. Eventually you learn that the competition is against the little voice inside you that wants you to quit.”
-- George A. Sheehan

#Motivational #Running #Ideas
“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

#Running #Real #Goal
“Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing.”
-- George A. Sheehan

#Motivational #Happiness #Happy
“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

#Running #Answers #Bigs
“Listen to your body. Do not be a blind and deaf tenant.”
-- George A. Sheehan

#Running #Body #Blind
“Everyone is an athlete. The only difference is that some of us are in training, and some are not.”
-- George A. Sheehan

#Running #Athlete #Differences
“There are as many reasons for running as there are days in the year, years in my life. But mostly I run because I am an animal and a child, an artist and a saint. So, too, are you. Find your own play, your own self-renewing compulsion, and you will become the person you are meant to be.”
-- George A. Sheehan

#Fitness #Running #Children
“Sweat cleanses from the inside. It comes from places a shower will never reach.”
-- George A. Sheehan

#Running #Sweat #Showers
“To know you are one with what you are doing, to know that you are a complete athlete, begins with believing you are a runner.”
-- George A. Sheehan

#Running #Believe #Athlete
“Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the person you believe you were meant to be.”
-- George A. Sheehan

#Inspirational #Success #Determination
“No matter how old I get, the race remains one of life's most rewarding experiences.”
-- George A. Sheehan

#Running #Race #Matter
“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.”
-- George A. Sheehan

#Tired #Waiting #Events
“The most important thing I learned [from running] is that there is only one runner in this race, and that is me.”
-- George A. Sheehan

#Running #Race #Important
“Out on the roads there is fitness and self-discovery and the persons we were destined to be.”
-- George A. Sheehan

#Running #Discovery #Self
“The distance runner is mysteriously reconciling the separations of body and mind, of pain and pleasure, of the conscious and the unconscious. He is repairing the rent, and healing the wound in his divided self. He has found a way to make the ordinary extraordinary; the commonplace unique; the everyday eternal.”
-- George A. Sheehan

#Pain #Distance #Healing
“Exercise is done against one's wishes and maintained only because the alternative is worse.”
-- George A. Sheehan

#Motivational #Running #Fitness
“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

#Motivational #Recovery #Thinking
“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

#Running #Rain #Bird
“The mind's first step to self-awareness must be through the body.”
-- George A. Sheehan

#Inspiration #Self #Mind
“The difference between a jogger and a runner is an entry blank.”
-- George A. Sheehan

#Running #Differences #Blank
“The desire to run comes from deep within us - from the unconscious, the instinctive, the intuitive.”
-- George A. Sheehan

#Running #Desire #Unconscious
“The obsession with running is really an obsession with the potential for more and more life.”
-- George A. Sheehan

#Running #Obsession
“The true runner is a very fortunate person. He has found something in him that is just perfect.”
-- George A. Sheehan

#Running #Perfect #Found
“Of all the races, there is no better stage for heroism than a marathon.”
-- George A. Sheehan

#Race #Heroism #Marathon
“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.”
-- George A. Sheehan

#Running #Hurt #Thinking
“Life is a positive-sum game. Everyone from the gold medallist to the last finisher can rejoice in a personal victory.”
-- George A. Sheehan

#Running #Games #Victory
“Anything that changes your values changes your behaviour.”
-- George A. Sheehan

#Good Life #Behaviour #Values
“Once you have decided that winning isn't everything, you become a winner.”
-- George A. Sheehan

#Running #Winning #Winner
“Nothing is more certain than the defeat of a man who gives up.”
-- George A. Sheehan

#Running #Giving Up #Men
“I have met my hero, and he is me.”
-- George A. Sheehan

#Running #Hero #Mets

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