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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Every runner is an experiment of 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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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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Why race? The need to be tested, perhaps the need to take risks and the chance to be number one.
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Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing.
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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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Listen to your body. Do not be a blind and deaf tenant.
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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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If marathoners finish they win.
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I have found my hero and he is me.
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Of all the races, there is no better stage for heroism than a marathon.
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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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