C Mcdougall Quotes

#1. You don't have to be fast. But you'd better be fearless.

Christopher McDougall

#2. Because we have to answer to one another, and they did not.

Christopher McDougall

#3. The reason we race isn't so much to beat each other, ... but to be with each other.

Christopher McDougall

#4. America's civilization perturbs the trajectories of all other civilizations just by existing.

Walter A. McDougall

#5. And if I really wanted to understand the Raramuri, I should have been there when this ninety-five-year-old man came hiking twenty-five miles over the mountain. Know why he could do it? Because no one ever told him he couldn't.

Christopher McDougall

#6. We are the biggest sissies in the jungle. Every other animal is stronger than we are - they have fangs, they have claws, they have nimbleness, they have speed. We think Usain Bolt is fast - Usain Bolt can get his ass kicked by a squirrel.

Christopher McDougall

#7. Anyone can do running. Running should be easy. It should be fun. It should include everyone. It shouldn't be a punishment for eating cheesecake, which is what we've turned it into.

Christopher McDougall

#8. Theodore, you have the mind but not the body," his father said. "And without the help of the body the mind cannot go as far as it should. You have to make your body.

Christopher McDougall

#9. The math is stark: cut the fat, and cut your cancer risk.

Christopher McDougall

#10. The fat you eat, is the fat you wear.

John A. McDougall

#11. The art of the hero wasn't about being brave; it was about being so competent that bravery wasn't an issue. You

Christopher McDougall

#12. Scientific discovery is not valuable unless it has commercial value.

John A. McDougall

#13. Everyone is built for running.

Christopher McDougall

#14. Something occurred to me on the way. "Does your dad know you've got his his flask?" I asked Josephine.
"Yes, he's probably worked it out by now," Josephine said.

Sophia McDougall

#15. We have seen the damage already caused to the music industry and we have to continue to make the public and government bodies globally aware of the damage that will happen if DVD piracy is not brought under control.

Callum McDougall

#16. If you don't think you were born to run you're not only denying history. You're denying who you are.

Christopher McDougall

#17. We've created an unnatural form of running. It's not just the shoes, but we run on artificial surfaces - straight ahead, hard and steady - instead of speeding up and slowing down, reacting to the terrain with changes of pace and rhythm.

Christopher McDougall

#18. Way before we were scratching pictures on caves or beating rhythms on hollow trees we were perfecting the art of combining our breath and mind and muscles into fluid self-propulsion over wild terrain.

Christopher McDougall

#19. Make friends with pain, and you will never be alone.

Chris McDougall

#20. The heroes of the past are untouchable, protected forever by the fortress door of time - unless some mysterious stranger magically turns up with a key.

Christopher McDougall

#21. Suffering is humbling. It pays to know how to get your butt kicked.

Christopher McDougall

#22. We don't woo our wives with clubs. We don't leave old folks on ice floes. And maybe the time has come to quit diving into rip tides to save people we don't know. We've outgrown a lot of survival-of-the-fittest strategies, and risking our lives for strangers might be one of them.

Christopher McDougall

#23. There is a growing subculture of barefoot runners, people who got rid of their shoes. And what they have found uniformly is you get rid of the shoes, you get rid of the stress, you get rid of the injuries and the ailments.

Christopher McDougall

#24. I think everyone who goes to see a 'Bond' movie expects to be impressed by the look and the locations chosen. Certainly I was when I grew up watching them, and I don't think that's changed in the last 50 years.

Callum McDougall

#25. But still. It has to end sometime. Wars always do. Everything has to end,' said Josephine, eating another ginger biscuit and getting unexpectedly philosophical. 'Yeah. Things like human civilisation,' I said.

Sophia McDougall

#26. When it comes to mentors, you can't beat survival.

Christopher McDougall

#27. He seemed to be a pure racing animal, which explained two of his other peculiar habits: at the start of every race, he'd let out a bloodcurdling shriek, and after he won, he'd roll in the

Christopher McDougall

#28. I'm supposed to spread my fingers as wide as they were with the rubber band, mash my palms hard into the floor, and pull myself down. When I do, I surprise even myself when my elbows straighten with barely any effort.

Christopher McDougall

#29. But you can't muscle through a five-hour run that way; you have to relax into it like easing your body into a hot bath, until it no longer resists the shock and begins to enjoy it.

Christopher McDougall

#30. The death toll had gotten so bad, Mexico would eventually rank second only to Iraq in the number of killed or kidnapped reporters.

Christopher McDougall