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Sometimes,' she said, 'it takes a woman to bring out the best in a man.

Running should be free, man.

We were born to run; we were born because we run.

In terms of nutritional content, a tablespoon of chia is like a smoothie made from salmon, spinach, and human growth hormone.

Everyone is built for running.

One of the most dangerous and best-kept secrets of the medical profession is the epidemic of anesthesiologists who are addicted to their own drugs.

The best runner leaves no tracks. - Tao Te Ching

Shoes block pain, not impact! Pain teaches us to run comfortably! From the moment you start going barefoot, you will change the way you run.

Nothing works out according to plan, but it always works out.

But humans, with our millions of sweat glands, are the best air-cooled engine that evolution has ever put on the market.

To the tarahumara, asking direct questions is a show of force, a demand for a possession inside their head.

If it feels like work, you're working too hard.

Awareness of the world begins with your feet, he believes.

Distance running demands a brain-body connection that no other creature is capable of.

Vegetables, grains, and legumes contain all the amino acids necessary to build muscle from scratch. Like

If you don't have answers to your problems after a four-hour run, you ain't getting them.

To live with ghosts requires solitude. - ANNE MICHAELS, Fugitive Pieces

As much for his mind as for his body, Erwan likes to run it barefoot.

where you have more experts, you create more bystanders. Professionals

When it comes to mentors, you can't beat survival.

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

If he could do it, Churchill was certain, so could his fellow misfits.

Opportunity makes thieves." What

Suffering is humbling. It pays to know how to get your butt kicked.

The death toll had gotten so bad, Mexico would eventually rank second only to Iraq in the number of killed or kidnapped reporters.

I received the best advice for running I ever heard: 'You're not going to win, so just relax. If it feels like work, you're running too hard.'

pretty girl the German had danced with in a Cretan tavern during the Occupation was actually Xan in disguise.

The math is stark: cut the

I am a shepherd, too, like Polyphemus, so I knew all about it.

The math is stark: cut the fat, and cut your cancer risk.

Runners in shoes that cost more than $95 were more than twice as likely to get hurt as runners in shoes that cost less than $40.

The friend of wisdom is also a friend of the myth. - ARISTOTLE

The art of the hero wasn't about being brave; it was about being so competent that bravery wasn't an issue. You

If you don't think you were born to run you're not only denying history. You're denying who you are.

the only man in modern history to successfully kidnap a commanding general. Paddy

You don't have to be fast. But you'd better be fearless.

That's because goats eat everything. Only the prickliest survive.

The words of the social critic Eric Hoffer were ringing true: Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and turns into a racket.

It's easy to get outside yourself when you're thinking about someone else.

Don't fight the trail, take what it gives you. If you have a choice between one step or two between rocks, take three.

Running is the heart of what it means to be human.

For nearly 2 million years, our ancestors survived and thrived and spread across the planet because they could run other mammals into heat exhaustion.

Just because men and women of our era don't live up to the myths doesn't mean no one ever has, or ever will again.

The truth is that there can be no proper training that does not educate the whole system of the man.

Because that's the ugly truth about heroism: the tests don't start when you're ready or stop when you're tired.

You get leafy greens in your body first thing in the morning and you'll lose a lot of weight.

Because we have to answer to one another, and they did not.

Blaming the running injury epidemic on big, bad Nike seems too easy - but that's okay, because it's largely their fault.

Human urine is both nutrient-rich and an effective tooth whitener

We do not stop running because we get old, we get old because we stop running

If you can run six miles on a summer day, then you, my friend, are a lethal weapon in the animal kingdom.

Getting air may have determined the way we got our bodies.

Even Charles Darwin, that human decoder ring of bizarre behavior, found the idea of saving a stranger's life to be a total head-scratcher.

That it took him nearly the entire walk to notice what was happening: his back didn't hurt. Didn't hurt a bit. Heyyy ... Ted thought. Maybe I can

The reason we race isn't so much to beat each other, ... but to be with each other.