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I have found my hero and he is me.
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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On the roads, I can see truth revealed whole without thought or reason. There I experience the sudden understanding that comes unasked, unbidden. I simply rest, rest within myself, rest within the pure rhythm of my running. And I wait.
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If marathoners finish they win.
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The difference between a jogger and a runner is an entry blank.
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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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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 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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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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No matter how old I get, the race remains one of life's most rewarding experiences.
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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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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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Once you have decided that winning isn't everything, you become a winner.
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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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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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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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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.
George A. Sheehan
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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