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Once you have decided that winning isn't everything, you become a winner.

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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Everything
Winner
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Sweat cleanses from the inside. It comes from places a shower will never reach.
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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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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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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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Out on the roads there is fitness and self-discovery and the persons we were destined 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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The true runner is a very fortunate person. He has found something in him that is just perfect.
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Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing.
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