George A. Sheehan Quotes - Page 2

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• 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

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• 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

  Running, Effort, Coward

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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.

  George A. Sheehan

  Running, Hurt, Thinking

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• The difference between a jogger and a runner is an entry blank.

  George A. Sheehan

  Running, Differences, Jogging

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• There is nothing more certain than the defeat of the man who gives up.

  George A. Sheehan

  Inspirational, Motivational, Running

  "Dr. George Sheehan on getting fit & feeling great".

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• Life is the greatest experiment. Each of us is an experiment of one-observer and subject-making choices, living with them, recording the effects.

  George A. Sheehan

  Choices, Life Is, Experiments

  George A. Sheehan, George Sheehan (1992). “Dr. George Sheehan on getting fit & feeling great”, Outlet

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• The music of a marathon is a powerful strain, one of those tunes of glory. It asks us to forsake pleasures, to discipline the body, to find courage, to renew faith and to become one's own person, utterly and completely.

  George A. Sheehan

  Powerful, Discipline, Tunes

  George A. Sheehan, George Sheehan (1992). “Dr. George Sheehan on getting fit & feeling great”, Outlet

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

  George A. Sheehan

  Running, Rain, Bird

  "Dr. George Sheehan on getting fit & feeling great".

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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

  Running, Self, Each Day

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• 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

  Running, Numbers, People

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• If you want to win anything - a race, yourself, your life - you have to go a little berserk.

  George A. Sheehan

  Adversity, Winning, Race

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• I have found my hero and he is me.

  George A. Sheehan

  Running, Hero, Mets

  "Dr. George Sheehan on getting fit & feeling great".

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• Sport is singularly able to give us peak experience where we feel completely one with the world and transcend all conflicts as we finally become our own potential.

  George A. Sheehan

  Sports, Giving, World

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

  George A. Sheehan

  Sexy, Inspiration, Self

  George A. Sheehan, George Sheehan (1992). “Dr. George Sheehan on getting fit & feeling great”, Outlet

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• The obsession with running is really an obsession with the potential for more and more life.

  George A. Sheehan

  Running, Obsession, Track Runners

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• 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

  George A. Sheehan, George Sheehan (1992). “Dr. George Sheehan on getting fit & feeling great”, Outlet

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• 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.

  George A. Sheehan

  Mirrors, Self, Made

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

  George A. Sheehan

  Motivational, Fitness, Running

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• 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.

  George A. Sheehan

  Running, Heart, Miracle

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• The key then is to find your own mountain, otherwise you will be competing with people who are not even in your event, and running up against the 'shoulds' and 'oughts' of that world, and the inevitable frustration and depression and feelings of failure. A person can be complete or incomplete, but one thing is sure, he cannot be someone else.

  George A. Sheehan

  Running, Frustration, Keys

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• 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

  Sports, Running, Race

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• 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

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• Every runner is an experiment of one.

  George A. Sheehan

  Inspirational, Runners, Experiments

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• Running makes you an athlete in all areas of life...trained in the basics, prepared for whatever comes, ready to fill each hour and deal with the decisive moment.

  George A. Sheehan

  Running, Athlete, Moments

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• 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

  Fun, Play, Process

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