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George A. Sheehan
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George A. Sheehan
Age: 74 †
Born: 1918
Born: November 5
Died: 1993
Died: November 1
Cardiologist
Military Officer
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Listen to your body. Do not be a blind and deaf tenant.
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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.
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I will not last forever. But I am damn well going to know I have been here.
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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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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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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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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.
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I have found my hero and he is me.
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The true runner is a very fortunate person. He has found something in him that is just perfect.
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Once you have decided that winning isn't everything, you become a winner.
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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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Why race? The need to be tested, perhaps the need to take risks and the chance to be number one.
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No matter how old I get, the race remains one of life's most rewarding experiences.
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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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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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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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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.
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Exercise: you don't have time not to
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Sweat cleanses from the inside. It comes from places a shower will never reach.
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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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