80 Quotes by George A. Sheehan

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

We who run...are different from those who merely study us. We are out there experiencing what they are trying to put into words.

Running is just such a monastery- a retreat, a place to commune with God and yourself, a place for psychological and spiritual renewal.

Anything that changes your values changes your behaviour.

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.

The most important thing I learned [from running] is that there is only one runner in this race, and that is me.

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.

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

The true runner is a very fortunate person. He has found something in him that is just perfect.