George A. Sheehan Quotes About Running

Quotes about: Running

• 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

  Sports, Running, Real

• 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, Endurance, Body

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

  George A. Sheehan

  Running, Race, Matter

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

  George A. Sheehan

  Running, Obsession, Track Runners

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

  George A. Sheehan

  Running, Differences, Jogging

• 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

• The desire to run comes from deep within us — from the unconscious, the intuitive, the instinctive. And that desire becomes a passion when the runner learns to race. Then, the race becomes all — the lovemaking of the runner.

  George A. Sheehan

  Running, Desire, Deep Within

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

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

  George A. Sheehan

  Motivational, Fitness, Running

• I have found my hero and he is me.

  George A. Sheehan

  Running, Hero, Mets

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

• 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

• 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".

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

  George A. Sheehan

  Running, Winning, Winner

• 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".

• 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

• The true runner is a very fortunate person. He has found something in him that is just perfect.

  George A. Sheehan

  Running, Perfect, Found

• 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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