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Out on the roads there is fitness and self-discovery and the persons we were destined to be.
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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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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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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I have found my hero and he is me.
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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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Why race? The need to be tested, perhaps the need to take risks and the chance to be number one.
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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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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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I will not last forever. But I am damn well going to know I have been here.
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Sport is an essential element of education.
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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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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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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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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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