Top 45 Scott Jurek Quotes
#1. To run 100 miles and more is to bring the body to the point of breaking, to bring the mind to the point of destruction, to arrive at that place where you can alter your consciousness.
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#2. Fear is what makes you come alive, the lure of the unknown - can I do this? - thats where the growth comes from, the pain. I dont remember the running effortlessly; I remember the hard times; adversity breathes transformation.
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#3. We move forward, but we must stay in the present.
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#5. Run until you can't run anymore. Then run some more. Find a new source of energy and will. Then run even faster. Other
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#6. It's a hard, simple calculus: Run until you can't run anymore. Then run some more. Find a new source of energy and will. Then run even faster.
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#7. Not all pain is significant. (on Dave Terry)
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#8. Sometimes the road to wellness isnt a well-marked expressway.
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#9. quitting, gives you even more time to ponder. But perhaps I wanted time to stop. Maybe I was meant to lie here on my back in the desert to question why I was running through an oven. Why was I subjecting myself to this torture? I started running for reasons I had
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#10. Every single one of us possesses the strength to attempt something he isn't sure he can accomplish. It can be running a mile, or a 10K race, or 100 miles. It can be changing a career, losing 5 pounds, or telling someone you love her (or him).
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#11. The more you know, the less you need. - YVON CHOUINARD
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#12. We can live as we were meant to live - simply, joyously, of and on the earth. We can live with all our effort and with pure happiness.
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#13. For me, it's about optimizing health. It's about lifestyle and longevity. Then you think about what vegetarian diets can do for the mass population, in terms of lower consumption of resources. When you look at the numbers, it's pretty staggering.
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#14. competition could turn the most mundane task into a thrill, and that successfully completing a job - no matter how onerous - made me feel unaccountably happy.
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#15. Train where your fitness is NOW, not where you want to be.
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#16. If your mind is dirty you can run 10,000 miles, but where have you gotten? If you go for a 1-mile run and you're passionately engaged with the world, who cares about the other 9,999?
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#17. Nature's arena has a way of humbling and energizing us.
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#18. In ultrarunning, the mountains and willpower equalize the genders. Strawburst
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#19. As powerful as our legs are, as magnificent as our lungs and arms and muscles are, nothing matters more than the mind.
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#20. The ultra distance forgives injury, fatigue, bad form, and illness. A bear with determination will defeat a dreamy gazelle every time.
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#21. Snow. Sun. Sandstone. Sky. He was doing what he liked and knew. It was now. And this now had no pressure, just permission. - James Galvin
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#22. By combining instinct and technique, I searched for that small zone where I could push myself as hard as possible without injury and the unraveling of the body's systems. Accessing and staying in that small zone is the key to success.
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#23. while the Tarahumara run to get from point to point, in the process they travel into a zone beyond geography and beyond even the five senses.
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#24. The point was living with grace, decency, and attention to the world, and breaking free of the artificial constructs in your own life.
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#25. You can spend your life chitchatting with someone - even a good friend - but spend even an hour moving over a rocky path, breathing in pine-scented air, and I guarantee you the chitchat will turn to something else.
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#26. We strive toward a goal, and whether we achieve it or not is important, but it's not what's most important. What matters is how we move toward that goal.
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#27. Humans aren't built to sit all day. Nor are we built for the kinds of repetitive, small movements that so much of today's specialized work demands. Our bodies crave big, varied movements that originate at the core of our body.
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#28. Altogether, our modern inclination toward sloth, the easy availability of processed food, and the prevalence of life-saving medical treatments have made us a long-lived, unhealthy people.
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#29. You can hurt more than you ever thought possible, then continue until you discover that hurting isn't that big a deal.
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#30. The reward of running - of anything - lies within us ... We focus on something external to motivate us, but we need to remember that it's the process of reaching for that prize - not the prize itself - that can bring us peace and joy.
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#31. Eating raw was like getting a Ph.D. in a plant-based diet - hard work, but worth it.
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#32. Skiing was my passion. Running was a means to stay in shape for that.
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#33. Let's improve ourselves as human beings, let's become more compassionate, let's become bigger, let's become stronger, let's become nicer people.
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#34. But the longer and further I ran, the more I realized that what I was often chasing was a state of mind- a place where worries that seemed monumental melted away, where the beauty and timelessness of the universe, of the present moment, came into sharp focus.
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#35. Asking why had somehow led me to the thing that I loved - the feeling of moving over the earth, with the earth, the sensation of being in the present, free from chores and expectations and disappointment and worry.
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#36. We all lose sometimes. We fail to get what we want. Friends and loved ones leave. We make a decision we regret. We try our hardest and come up short. It's not the losing that defines us. It's how we lose. It's what we do afterward.
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#37. What we eat is a matter of life and death.
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#38. Train at your current fitness level, or slightly above - not where you want to be.
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#39. If you are not on the edge, you are taking up too much room. - Randy "Macho Man" Savage
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#41. Only the most saintly and delusional among us welcomes all pain as challenge, perceives all loss as harsh blessing.
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#42. Rational assessments too often led to rational surrenders.
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#43. They're gonna chick you, Jurker! Do you want to get chicked?" (Dusty had coined the term when he was in high school. It's now part of the ultra-running lexicon). I
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#44. Running efficiently demands good technique, and running efficiently for 100 miles demands great technique.
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#45. But you can be transformed. Not overnight, but over time. Life is not a race.
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