80 Quotes by George A. Sheehan

There is no substitute for learning to live in our bodies.

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.

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.

Exercise: you don't have time not to

Sport is an essential element of education.

If marathoners finish they win.

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.

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.

Have you ever felt worse after a run?