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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.

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
Whatever
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Hour
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Moments
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Life
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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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Once you have decided that winning isn't everything, you become a winner.
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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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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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Out on the roads there is fitness and self-discovery and the persons we were destined 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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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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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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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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The difference between a jogger and a runner is an entry blank.
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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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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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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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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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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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If marathoners finish they win.
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If you want to find the answers to the Big Questions about your soul, you'd best begin with the Little Answers about your body.
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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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