80 Quotes by George A. Sheehan

Because until we write it down, we don't know what is actually at the root of our lives.

Play is where life lives

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.

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.

I run each day to preserve the self I attained the day before and to secure the self yet to be.

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.

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.

Why race? The need to be tested, perhaps; the need to take risks; and the chance to be number one.

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.