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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
Cardiologist
Military Officer
Physician
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Inside

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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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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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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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If marathoners finish they win.
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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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Sport is an essential element of education.
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I have found my hero and he is me.
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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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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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Exercise: you don't have time not to
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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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Once you have decided that winning isn't everything, you become a winner.
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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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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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Of all the races, there is no better stage for heroism than a marathon.
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Listen to your body. Do not be a blind and deaf tenant.
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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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Play is where life lives
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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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Some think guts is sprinting at the end of a race. But guts is what got you there to begin with. Guts start back in the hills with 6 miles to go and you're thinking of how you can get out of this race without anyone noticing. Guts begin when you still have forty minutes of torture left and you're already hurting more than you ever remember.
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