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  • "Born To Run," that expands every time we go out. It just seems to you - more of your life fills it in, fills in the story. And when we hit it every night, it's always a huge catharsis. It's fascinating to see the audience singing it back to me. It's quite wonderful, you know, to see people that intensely singing your song.

    Running   Song   Night  
    Source: www.npr.org
  • The highway's jammed with broken heroes on a last chance power drive.

    Hero   Broken   Lasts  
    Song: I Was Born To Run, Album: Born To Run, 1975
  • Together, we'll live with the sadness. I'll love you with all the madness in my soul.

    Love You   Sadness   Soul  
    Bruce Springsteen (2016). “Born to run (edició en català)”, p.255, Malpaso Ediciones SL
  • Ask nothing from your running, and you'll get more than you ever imagined!

    Christopher McDougall (2010). “Born to Run: The hidden tribe, the ultra-runners, and the greatest race the world has never seen”, p.94, Profile Books
  • The only way to truly conquer something, as every great philosopher and geneticist will tell you, is to love it.

    Christopher McDougall (2010). “Born to Run: The hidden tribe, the ultra-runners, and the greatest race the world has never seen”, p.125, Profile Books
  • I was born to be a runner. I simply love to run. It's almost like the faster I go, the easier it becomes.

  • Only recently have we come up with the technology to turn lazing around into a way of life. We've taken our sinewy, durable, hunter-gatherer bodies and plunked them into an artificial world of leisure.

    Christopher McDougall (2010). “Born to Run: The hidden tribe, the ultra-runners, and the greatest race the world has never seen”, p.243, Profile Books
  • The reason we race isn't so much to beat each other... but to be with each other.

    Running   Race   Reason  
    FaceBook post by Christopher McDougall from Nov 08, 2016
  • You were born to run. Maybe not that fast, maybe not that far, maybe not as efficiently as others. But to get up and move, to fire up that entire energy-producing, oxygen-delivering, bone-strengthening process we call running.

    Running   Moving   Oxygen  
    Florence Griffith Joyner, John Hanc (1999). “Running For Dummies”, For Dummies
  • In the day we sweat it out on the streets on a runaway American dream.

    Dream   Work   Sweat  
    "Born to Run" (song) (1974)
  • Perhaps all our troubles - all the violence, obesity, illness, depression, and greed we can't overcome - began when we stopped living as Running People. Deny your nature, and it will erupt in some other, uglier way.

    Running   People   Greed  
    Christopher McDougall (2010). “Born to Run: The hidden tribe, the ultra-runners, and the greatest race the world has never seen”, p.99, Profile Books
  • If you don't think you were born to run you're not only denying history. You're denying who you are.

    Christopher McDougall (2010). “Born to Run: The hidden tribe, the ultra-runners, and the greatest race the world has never seen”, p.244, Profile Books
  • Distance running was revered because it was indispensable; it was the way we survived and thrived and spread across the planet. You ran to eat and to avoid being eaten; you ran to find a mate and impress her, and with her you ran off to start a new life together. You had to love running, or you wouldn't live to love anything else. And like everything else we love-everything we sentimentally call our 'passions' and 'desires'-it's really an encoded ancestral necessity. We were born to run; we were born because we run.

    FaceBook post by Christopher McDougall from Jan 17, 2013
  • I saw rock n' roll future and its name is Bruce Springsteen.

    Rocks   Names   Saws  
    "We Are Alive" by David Remnick, www.newyorker.com. July 30, 2012.
  • We say the rarajipari is the game of life, ' Angel said. 'You never know how hard it will be. You never know when it will end. You can't control it. You can only adjust.

  • Someday girl, I don't know when, were gonna get to the place where we really want to go, and we'll walk in the sun. But til then, tramps like us, baby, we were born to run.

  • We've got a motto here-you're tougher than you think you are, and you can do more than you think you can.

    Christopher McDougall (2010). “Born to Run: The hidden tribe, the ultra-runners, and the greatest race the world has never seen”, p.61, Profile Books
  • We were born to run; we were born because we run.

    Christopher McDougall (2010). “Born to Run: The hidden tribe, the ultra-runners, and the greatest race the world has never seen”, p.93, Profile Books
  • I read Christopher McDougall's book 'Born to Run.' If running were a religion, this would be its bible. I actually scribbled my favorite passages on my arm to read during the race.

    Running   Book   Race  
  • Way before we were scratching pictures on caves or beating rhythms on hollow trees we were perfecting the art of combining our breath and mind and muscles into fluid self-propulsion over wild terrain.

    Running   Art   Self  
    Christopher McDougall (2010). “Born to Run: The hidden tribe, the ultra-runners, and the greatest race the world has never seen”, p.92, Profile Books
  • If you don't have answers to your problems after a four-hour run, you ain't getting them.

    Christopher McDougall (2010). “Born to Run: The hidden tribe, the ultra-runners, and the greatest race the world has never seen”, p.213, Profile Books
  • Beyond the very extreme of fatigue and distress, we may find amounts of ease and power we never dreamed ourselves to own; sources of strength never taxed at all because we never push through the obstruction

    Ease   May   Born To Run  
  • Nearly all runners do their slow runs too fast, and their fast runs too slow." Ken Mierke says. "So they're just training their bodies to burn sugar, which is the last thing a distance runner wants. You've got enough fat stored to run to California, so the more you train your body to burn fat instead of sugar, the longer your limited sugar tank is going to last." -The way to activate your fat-burning furnace is by staying below your aerobic threshold--your hard-breathing point--during your endurance runs.

    Christopher McDougall (2010). “Born to Run: The hidden tribe, the ultra-runners, and the greatest race the world has never seen”, p.207, Profile Books
  • We're still buzzin' about Bruce Springsteen at halftime, but I'll tell you if there was one guy we weren't thinking was 'Born To Run' it was James Harrison.

    Running   Thinking   Guy  
  • Wendy, let me in, I wanna be your friend. I wanna guard your dreams and visions.

    "Song: "Born to Run"". 1975.
  • Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up, it knows it must outrun the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning in Africa, a lion wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the slowest gazelle, or it will starve. It doesn't matter whether you're the lion or a gazelle-when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.

    Christopher McDougall (2010). “Born to Run: The hidden tribe, the ultra-runners, and the greatest race the world has never seen”, p.13, Profile Books
  • We gotta get out while we're young, 'cause tramps like us, baby we were born to run.

    Running   Baby   Travel  
    "Born to Run" (song) (1974)
  • After 'Born to Run,' I had a reaction to my good fortune. With success, it felt like a lot of people who'd come before me lost some essential part of themselves. My greatest fear was that success was going to change or diminish that part of myself.

    "Bruce Springsteen: 'People thought we were gone. Finished'". Interview with Keith Cameron, www.theguardian.com. September 23, 2010.
  • You can always do more than you think you can.

  • Anytime you spend six months on a song (Born to Run), there's something not exactly going right. A song should take about three hours.

    Running   Song   Three  
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