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Sweat cleanses from the inside. It comes from places a shower will never reach.
George A. Sheehan
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George A. Sheehan
Age: 74 †
Born: 1918
Born: November 5
Died: 1993
Died: November 1
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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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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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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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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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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 is just such a monastery- a retreat, a place to commune with God and yourself, a place for psychological and spiritual renewal.
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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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Once you have decided that winning isn't everything, you become a winner.
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Of all the races, there is no better stage for heroism than a marathon.
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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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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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Why race? The need to be tested, perhaps the need to take risks and the chance to be number one.
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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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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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Sport is an essential element of education.
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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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Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing.
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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.
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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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