If you want to win anything - a race, yourself, your life - you have to go a little berserk. George A. Sheehan More Quotes by George A. Sheehan More Quotes From George A. Sheehan 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 painathleterunning Once you have decided that winning isn't everything, you become a winner. George A. Sheehan winnerwinningrunning 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. George A. Sheehan deep-withindesirerunning Of all the races, there is no better stage for heroism than a marathon. George A. Sheehan marathonheroismrace The true runner is a very fortunate person. He has found something in him that is just perfect. George A. Sheehan foundperfectrunning 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. George A. Sheehan distancepainhealing Fitness is just a stage you pass through on the way to becoming a racer. George A. Sheehan becomingrunningway 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 miracleheartrunning Exercise: you don't have time not to George A. Sheehan exercise 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 understandingwaitingrunning 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. George A. Sheehan medicinesoulphilosophy If marathoners finish they win. George A. Sheehan ifswinningrunning Do not tell me what to do, tell me what you do. Do not tell me what is good for me, tell me what is good for you. If, at the same time, you reveal the you in me, if you become a mirror to my inner self, then you have made a reader and a friend. George A. Sheehan mirrorsselfmade Why race? The need to be tested, perhaps; the need to take risks; and the chance to be number one. George A. Sheehan riskracenumbers People begin running for any number of motives, but we stick to it for one basic reason-to find out who we really are. George A. Sheehan runningnumberspeople Sport is an essential element of education. George A. Sheehan trackessentialssports Fitness has to be fun. If it is not play there will be no fitness. Play, you see, is where the process. Fitness is merely the product. George A. Sheehan processplayfun 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 runninganimalchildren 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 endurancerunningtrying 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 frustrationkeysrunning
