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

George A. Sheehan

Running, Endurance, Body

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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.

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Leadership, Sports, Children

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

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Running, Discovery, Self

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

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I have found my hero and he is me.

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Running, Hero, Mets

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

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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.

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Powerful, Discipline, Tunes

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

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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.

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Sports, Giving, World

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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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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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Play is where life lives

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Play

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

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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.

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Running, Pain, Athlete

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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.

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Running, Rain, Bird

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

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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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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.

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Running, Frustration, Keys

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

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Running, Obsession, Track Runners

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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.

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Philosophy, Medicine, Soul

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

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

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Sexy, Inspiration, Self

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.

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Mirrors, Self, Made

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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.

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Pain, Distance, Healing

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

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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.

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Motivational, Recovery, Thinking

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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.

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Sports, Running, Race

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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.

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Running, Numbers, People

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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.

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Running, Heart, Miracle

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Every runner is an experiment of one.

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Inspirational, Runners, Experiments

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Exercise: you don't have time not to

George A. Sheehan

Exercise

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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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Born: November 5, 1918
Died: November 1, 1993
Occupation: Physician
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