George A. Sheehan Quotes

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  • Sport is an essential element of education.

  • 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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  • 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.

  • 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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  • No matter how old I get, the race remains one of life's most rewarding experiences.

    Running   Race  
  • Fitness is just a stage you pass through on the way to becoming a racer.

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  • 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.

  • 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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  • Sweat cleanses from the inside. It comes from places a shower will never reach.

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  • Sport is where an entire life can be compressed into a few hours, where the emotions of a lifetime can be felt on an acre or two of ground, where a person can suffer and die and rise again on six miles of trails through a New York City park. Sport is a theater where sinner can turn saint and a common man become an uncommon hero, where the past and the future can fuse with the present. Sport is singularly able to give us peak experiences where we feel completely one with the world and transcend all conflicts as we finally become our own potential.

  • Everyone is an athlete. The only difference is that some of us are in training, and some are not.

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    George A. Sheehan, George Sheehan (1992). “Dr. George Sheehan on getting fit & feeling great”, Outlet
  • 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.

  • 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, George Sheehan (1992). “Dr. George Sheehan on getting fit & feeling great”, Outlet
  • Listen to your body. Do not be a blind and deaf tenant.

  • There is nothing more certain than the defeat of the man who gives up.

    "Dr. George Sheehan on getting fit & feeling great".
  • 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.

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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.

  • 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.

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  • Of all the races, there is no better stage for heroism than a marathon.

    Race   Heroism   Marathon  
  • The study of motivation goes back to the Greeks. Their sports were essential to their education. They saw in sports the integration of body, mind and soul, the creation of beauty, the mastering of athletics, and the challenge of competition. A French sociologist points this out. "Sports," he wrote, was part of the education of the citizen. He was expected to engage in exercise for a whole series of reasons that had to do with the shaping of the citizen; the relation between moral good and physical good; and the growth of a person.

  • Once you have decided that winning isn't everything, you become a winner.

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  • The answer to the big questions in running is the same as the answer to the big questions in life: Do the best with what you've got.

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  • If you want to win anything - a race, yourself, your life - you have to go a little berserk.

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  • The mind's first step to self-awareness must be through the body.

    George A. Sheehan, George Sheehan (1992). “Dr. George Sheehan on getting fit & feeling great”, Outlet
  • Life is the greatest experiment. Each of us is an experiment of one-observer and subject-making choices, living with them, recording the effects.

    George A. Sheehan, George Sheehan (1992). “Dr. George Sheehan on getting fit & feeling great”, Outlet
  • 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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  • Have you ever felt worse after a run?

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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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    "Dr. George Sheehan on getting fit & feeling great".
  • 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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