George A. Sheehan Quotes

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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

  79 Copy quote

• Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing.

  George A. Sheehan

  Motivational, Happiness, Happy

  63 Copy quote

• The real competition is against the little voice inside you that wants to quit

  George A. Sheehan

  Running, Real, Voice

  40 Copy quote

• 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

  Motivational, Fitness, Running

  55 Copy quote

• 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

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• 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

  53 Copy quote

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

  George A. Sheehan

  Sports, Running, Athlete

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

  49 Copy quote

• Running is just such a monastery- a retreat, a place to commune with God and yourself, a place for psychological and spiritual renewal.

  George A. Sheehan

  Running, Spiritual, Retreat

  47 Copy quote

• 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

  Sports, Running, Real

  57 Copy quote

• 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.

  George A. Sheehan

  Integrity, Hero, Endurance

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• Sweat cleanses from the inside. It comes from places a shower will never reach.

  George A. Sheehan

  Running, Sweat, Showers

  42 Copy quote

• 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

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

  39 Copy quote

• 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.

  George A. Sheehan

  Running, Drama, Race

  33 Copy quote

• 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.

  George A. Sheehan

  Sports, New York, Hero

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• 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.

  George A. Sheehan

  Sports, Motivation, Exercise

  44 Copy quote

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

  George A. Sheehan

  Swimming, Forever, Lasts

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

  26 Copy quote

• Anything that changes your values changes your behaviour.

  George A. Sheehan

  Good Life, Behaviour, Values

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

  18 Copy quote

• 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

  Running, Pain, Athlete

  9 Copy quote

• 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

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• If you want to find the answers to the Big Questions about your soul, you'd best begin with the Little Answers about your body.

  George A. Sheehan

  Philosophy, Medicine, Soul

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

  8 Copy quote

• Once you have decided that winning isn't everything, you become a winner.

  George A. Sheehan

  Running, Winning, Winner

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• Listen to your body. Do not be a blind and deaf tenant.

  George A. Sheehan

  Running, Endurance, Body

  42 Copy quote

• Play is where life lives

  George A. Sheehan

  Play

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

  4 Copy quote

• Out on the roads there is fitness and self-discovery and the persons we were destined to be.

  George A. Sheehan

  Running, Discovery, Self

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

  30 Copy quote

• I have a bumper sticker that Bowen created that says Regardless of my kids grades, they have an 'A' in my book'. Without play the child that still lives in all of us will always be incomplete. And not only physically, but creatively, intellectually, and spiritually as well.

  George A. Sheehan

  Leadership, Sports, Children

  30 Copy quote

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