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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
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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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Why race? The need to be tested, perhaps the need to take risks and the chance to be number one.
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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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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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If marathoners finish they win.
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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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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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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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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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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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Every runner is an experiment of one.
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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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I have found my hero and he is me.
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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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The difference between a jogger and a runner is an entry blank.
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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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Exercise: you don't have time not to
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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 run each day to preserve the self I attained the day before and to secure the self yet to be.
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