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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.
George A. Sheehan
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George A. Sheehan
Age: 74 †
Born: 1918
Born: November 5
Died: 1993
Died: November 1
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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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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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Why race? The need to be tested, perhaps the need to take risks and the chance to be number one.
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The difference between a jogger and a runner is an entry blank.
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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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No matter how old I get, the race remains one of life's most rewarding experiences.
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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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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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Of all the races, there is no better stage for heroism than a marathon.
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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 means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the person you believe you were meant 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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