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Exercise: you don't have time not to

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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Sport is an essential element of education.
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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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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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Once you have decided that winning isn't everything, you become a winner.
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Every runner is an experiment of one.
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Of all the races, there is no better stage for heroism than a marathon.
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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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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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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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Out on the roads there is fitness and self-discovery and the persons we were destined to be.
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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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Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing.
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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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Play is where life lives
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Listen to your body. Do not be a blind and deaf tenant.
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I have a bumper sticker that Bowen created that says Regardless of my kids grades, they have an 'A' in my book'. Without play the child that still lives in all of us will always be incomplete. And not only physically, but creatively, intellectually, and spiritually as well.
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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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I have found my hero and he is me.
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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.
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