Quotes about running
running frustration keys
The key then is to find your own mountain, otherwise you will be competing with people who are not even in your event, and running up against the 'shoulds' and 'oughts' of that world, and the inevitable frustration and depression and feelings of failure. A person can be complete or incomplete, but one thing is sure, he cannot be someone else. George A. Sheehan
running winning ifs
If marathoners finish they win. George A. Sheehan
running art race
To make your life a work of art, you must have the material to work with. The race, any race, is just such an experience. George A. Sheehan
running waiting understanding
On the roads, I can see truth revealed whole without thought or reason. There I experience the sudden understanding that comes unasked, unbidden. I simply rest, rest within myself, rest within the pure rhythm of my running. And I wait. George A. Sheehan
running felt
Have you ever felt worse after a run? George A. Sheehan
running self each-day
I run each day to preserve the self I attained the day before and to secure the self yet to be. George A. Sheehan
running effort coward
Like everyone else, I want to be challenged. I want to find out whether or not I am a coward. I want to see how much effort I can put out . . . what I can endure . . . if I measure up. Running allows that. George A. Sheehan
running children animal
There are as many reasons for running as there are days in a year.... But mostly I run because I am an animal and a child. George A. Sheehan
running athlete moments
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
running way becoming
Fitness is just a stage you pass through on the way to becoming a racer. George A. Sheehan
running trying endurance
We who run...are different from those who merely study us. We are out there experiencing what they are trying to put into words. George A. Sheehan
running spiritual retreat
Running is just such a monastery- a retreat, a place to commune with God and yourself, a place for psychological and spiritual renewal. George A. Sheehan
running heart miracle
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. George A. Sheehan
running race important
The most important thing I learned [from running] is that there is only one runner in this race, and that is me. George A. Sheehan
running winning winner
Once you have decided that winning isn't everything, you become a winner. George A. Sheehan
running perfect found
The true runner is a very fortunate person. He has found something in him that is just perfect. George A. Sheehan
running differences jogging
The difference between a jogger and a runner is an entry blank. George A. Sheehan
running pain athlete
To keep from decaying, to be a winner, the athlete must accept pain - not only accept it, but look for it, live with it, learn not to fear it. George A. Sheehan
running hero mets
I have met my hero, and he is me. George A. Sheehan
running desire deep-within
The desire to run comes from deep within us - from the unconscious, the instinctive, the intuitive. George A. Sheehan
running obsession track-runners
The obsession with running is really an obsession with the potential for more and more life. George A. Sheehan
running rain bird
For every runner who tours the world running marathons, there are thousands who run to hear the leaves and listen to the rain, and look to the day when it is suddenly as easy as a bird in flight. George A. Sheehan
running hurt thinking
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. George A. Sheehan
running games victory
Life is a positive-sum game. Everyone from the gold medallist to the last finisher can rejoice in a personal victory. George A. Sheehan
running giving-up men
Nothing is more certain than the defeat of a man who gives up. George A. Sheehan
running real voice
The real competition is against the little voice inside you that wants to quit George A. Sheehan
running discovery self
Out on the roads there is fitness and self-discovery and the persons we were destined to be. George A. Sheehan
running believe athlete
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. George A. Sheehan
running dream kids
I've always had a longstanding dream, ever since I was a kid, where I was running on a big lake of ice and I kept running and kept running, just about to where I was trying to get to, and I fell through the ice, and then I couldn't find the hole where I fell through to get back out again. Garrett Hedlund
running trouble parliament
I won't have you electioneering on my doorstep. Every time you get in trouble in Parliament you run over here with your shirttail hanging out. Lyndon B. Johnson
running teacher offering
Whilst I may not actually help anyone to retaliate, I must not let a coward seek shelter behind nonviolence so-called. Not knowing the stuff of which nonviolence is made, many have honestly believed that running away from danger every time was a virtue compared to offering resistance, especially when it was fraught with danger to one's life. As a teacher of nonviolence I must, so far as it is possible for me, guard against such an unmanly belief. Mahatma Gandhi
running rights leaving
If we all discharge our duties, rights will not be far to seek. If leaving duties unperformed we run after rights, they will escape us like a will-o'-the-wisp. Mahatma Gandhi
running mad risk
I know that in embarking on non-violence I shall be running what might be termed a mad risk. But the victories of truth have never been won without risks. Mahatma Gandhi