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.
Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing.
The real competition is against the little voice inside you that wants to quit
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.
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.
Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the person you believe you were meant to be.
Everyone is an athlete. The only difference is that some of us are in training, and some are not.
Success rests with having the courage and endurance and, above all, the will to become the person you are, however peculiar that may be. Then you will be able to say, I found my hero and he is me.
Running is just such a monastery- a retreat, a place to commune with God and yourself, a place for psychological and spiritual renewal.
Sweat cleanses from the inside. It comes from places a shower will never reach.
No matter how old I get, the race remains one of life's most rewarding experiences. My times become slower and slower, but the experience of the race is unchanged: each race a drama, each race a challenge, each race stretching me in one way or another, and each race telling me more about myself and others.
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.
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.
Once you have decided that winning isn't everything, you become a winner.
Sport is where an entire life can be compressed into a few hours, where the emotions of a lifetime can be felt on an acre or two of ground, where a person can suffer and die and rise again on six miles of trails through a New York City park. Sport is a theater where sinner can turn saint and a common man become an uncommon hero, where the past and the future can fuse with the present. Sport is singularly able to give us peak experiences where we feel completely one with the world and transcend all conflicts as we finally become our own potential.
I will not last forever. But I am damn well going to know I have been here.
The study of motivation goes back to the Greeks. Their sports were essential to their education. They saw in sports the integration of body, mind and soul, the creation of beauty, the mastering of athletics, and the challenge of competition. A French sociologist points this out. "Sports," he wrote, was part of the education of the citizen. He was expected to engage in exercise for a whole series of reasons that had to do with the shaping of the citizen; the relation between moral good and physical good; and the growth of a person.
Life is a positive-sum game. Everyone from the gold medallist to the last finisher can rejoice in a personal victory.
Anything that changes your values changes your behaviour.
There is nothing more certain than the defeat of the man who gives up.
Out on the roads there is fitness and self-discovery and the persons we were destined to be.
I run each day to preserve the self I attained the day before and to secure the self yet to be.
If you want to win anything - a race, yourself, your life - you have to go a little berserk.
I have found my hero and he is me.
Listen to your body. Do not be a blind and deaf tenant.
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