Top 79 George Sheehan Quotes
#1. 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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#2. We who run ... are different from those who merely study us. We are out there experiencing what they are trying to put into words.
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#3. Man is meant to be a success. Each of us, he said, is unique and endowed with potentials unlike those of others. Success comes in finding your authentic self, the person you truly are, and becoming that person, tapping all of that untapped potential.
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#4. Fitness is just a stage you pass through on the way to becoming a racer.
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#5. Exercise is done against one's wishes and maintained only because the alternative is worse.
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#6. Because until we write it down, we don't know what is actually at the root of our lives.
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#7. The desire to run comes from deep within us - from the unconscious, the instinctive, the intuitive.
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#8. 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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#9. The runner who is in peak condition is only a razor's edge from catastrophe.
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#11. Life is a positive-sum game. Everyone from the gold medallist to the last finisher can rejoice in a personal victory.
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#12. Once you have decided that winning isn't everything, you become a winner.
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#13. Running is just such a monestary
a retreat, a place to commune with God and yourself, a place for psychological and spiritual renewal.
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#15. If you want to win anything - a race, yourself, your life - you have to go a little berserk.
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#16. Nothing is more certain than the defeat of a man who gives up.
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#17. 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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#18. I was told my son was killed in the war on terror. He was killed by George Bush's war of terror on the world.
Cindy Sheehan
#19. Of all the races, there is no better stage for heroism than a marathon.
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#20. The real competition is against the little voice inside you that wants to quit
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#21. William James, who believed the decisive thing about us was not intelligence, strength, or wealth. The real question posed to us is the effort we are willing to make,
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#22. The 5-year-old sees that Paradise correctly, not in technology but in the fairy story, in the great myths that control and guide our lives. And myth is meaning divined rather than defined, implicit rather than explicit.
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#23. Why race? The need to be tested, perhaps; the need to take risks; and the chance to be number one.
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#25. The mind's first step to self-awareness must be through the body.
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#26. There are as many reasons for running as there are days in a year ... But mostly I run because I am an animal and a child.
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#27. Casey was a faithful Christian filled with the spirit of the Christ; George is a hypocrite who says he is a Christian but then murders our brothers and sisters indiscriminately.
Cindy Sheehan
#28. My son was killed in 2004. I am not paying my taxes for 2004. You killed my son, George Bush, and I don't owe you a penny ... You give my son back, and I'll pay my taxes.
Cindy Sheehan
#29. 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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#31. Everyone is an athlete. The only difference is that some of us are in training, and some are not.
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#32. Sweat cleanses from the inside. It comes from places a shower will never reach.
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#33. So it is not age that is threatened by youth, but the other way around. Youth is threatened by age.
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#34. We mean business, George Bush, ... and we're going to go to Congress and we're going to ask them, 'How many more of other people's children are you willing to sacrifice for the lies' And we're going to say, Shame on you. Shame on you for giving him the authority to invade Iraq.
Cindy Sheehan
#35. The runner is coming to know, or will know if he runs enough...that the universe is the smallest divisible unit.
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#36. 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.
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#37. Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing.
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#40. 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.
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#41. Fitness has to be fun. If it is not play there will be no fitness. Play, you see, is where the process. Fitness is merely the product.
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#42. Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the person you believe you were meant to be.
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#43. 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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#44. Life is the greatest experiment. Each of us is an experiment of one-observer and subject-making choices, living with them, recording the effects.
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#46. 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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#47. I don't understand why, to rise to the level of being president of my country, one has to be a monster. I used to say that George Bush was defiling the Oval Office, but it's been held by a long line of monsters. We don't have to support our administrations to love our country.
Cindy Sheehan
#48. Courage is the bridge between our minds and our bodies.
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#49. 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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#50. 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.
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#51. 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.
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#52. On the roads, I can see truth revealed whole without thought or reason. There I experience the sudden understanding that comes unasked, unbidden. I simply rest, rest within myself, rest within the pure rhythm of my running. And I wait.
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#53. Out on the roads there is fitness and self-discovery and the persons we were destined to be.
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#54. 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.
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#56. 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.
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#57. The difference between a jogger and a runner is an entry blank.
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#58. What the jogger's face shows is not boredom but contemplation, which Thomas Aquinas described as man's highest activity save one - contemplation plus putting the fruits of that contemplation into action.
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#61. To make your life a work of art, you must have the material to work with. The race, any race, is just such an experience.
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#62. The obsession with running is really an obsession with the potential for more and more life.
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#63. From the moment you become a spectator, everything is downhill. It is a life that ends before the cheering and the shouting die.
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#64. 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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#65. I will not last forever. But I am damn well going to know I have been here.
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#66. Like everyone else, I want to be challenged. I want to find out whether or not I am a coward. I want to see how much effort I can put out ... what I can endure ... if I measure up. Running allows that.
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#67. Only a sense of humor can help each of us face those great unanswerable questions: Why was I born? Why am I here? Why must I die? What must I do to make my life a triumph? -
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#68. 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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#69. At 45, 2 years after the birth of his last child, he started running again.
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#71. 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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#72. The true runner is a very fortunate person. He has found something in him that is just perfect.
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#73. Boredom, like beauty, is in the mind of the beholder. 'There is no such thing as an uninteresting subject,' said Chesterton. 'The only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.
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#74. I run each day to preserve the self I attained the day before and to secure the self yet to be.
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#76. Aging is a myth, he argued, and he showed it by posting his personal best at 3:01 in his 61st year.
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#77. If peace activists really want to make changes, they have to start putting intense pressure on their elected officials. Of course, everything should be non-violent, because we are trying to create a peaceful world, and violence can't produce peace - no matter what George W. Bush and his buddies say.
Cindy Sheehan
#78. For every runner who tours the world running marathons, there are thousands who run to hear the leaves and listen to the rain, and look to the day when it is suddenly as easy as a bird in flight.
George Sheehan
#79. Disease, then, is one of those bad experiences that turns information into knowledge and knowledge into wisdom. The bad experiences that make you love yourself and your body and the world. And make you know that you are in a game that has to have a happy ending.
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