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The runner is coming to know, or will know if he runs enough...that the universe is the smallest divisible unit.
— George Sheehan
The biggest terrorist is George W. Bush.
— Cindy Sheehan
Fitness is just a stage you pass through on the way to becoming a racer.
— George A. Sheehan
I will not last forever. But I am damn well going to know I have been here.
— George A. Sheehan
I have met my hero, and he is me.
— George A. Sheehan
Aging is a myth, he argued, and he showed it by posting his personal best at 3:01 in his 61st year.
— George Sheehan
Listen to your body. Do not be a blind and deaf tenant.
— George A. Sheehan
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.
— George A. Sheehan
Exercise is done against one's wishes and maintained only because the alternative is worse.
— George A. Sheehan
Everyone is an athlete. The only difference is that some of us are in training, and some are not.
— George A. Sheehan
Every runner is an experiment of one.
— George A. Sheehan
I was told my son was killed in the war on terror. He was killed by George Bush's war of terror on the world.
— Cindy Sheehan
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.
— George A. Sheehan
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.
— George A. Sheehan
To know you are one with what you are doing, to know that you are a complete athlete, begins with believing you are a runner.
— George A. Sheehan
Sport is an essential element of education.
— George A. Sheehan
The real competition is against the little voice inside you that wants to quit
— George A. Sheehan
Out on the roads there is fitness and self-discovery and the persons we were destined to be.
— George A. Sheehan
Sweat cleanses from the inside. It comes from places a shower will never reach.
— George A. Sheehan
Life is a positive-sum game. Everyone from the gold medallist to the last finisher can rejoice in a personal victory.
— George A. Sheehan
If marathoners finish they win.
— George A. Sheehan
Life is the greatest experiment. Each of us is an experiment of one-observer and subject-making choices, living with them, recording the effects.
— George A. Sheehan
To keep from decaying, to be a winner, the athlete must accept pain - not only accept it, but look for it, live with it, learn not to fear it.
— George A. Sheehan
People begin running for any number of motives, but we stick to it for one basic reason-to find out who we really are.
— George A. Sheehan
Play is where life lives
— George A. Sheehan
There is no substitute for learning to live in our bodies.
— George A. Sheehan
Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the person you believe you were meant to be.
— George Sheehan
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.
— George A. Sheehan
The mind's first step to self-awareness must be through the body.
— George Sheehan
The difference between a jogger and a runner is an entry blank.
— George A. Sheehan
Anything that changes your values changes your behavior.
— George A. Sheehan
From the moment you become a spectator, everything is downhill. It is a life that ends before the cheering and the shouting die.
— George Sheehan
Exercise: you don't have time not to
— George A. Sheehan
Once you have decided that winning isn't everything, you become a winner.
— George A. Sheehan
So it is not age that is threatened by youth, but the other way around. Youth is threatened by age.
— George Sheehan
Have you ever felt worse after a run?
— George A. Sheehan
If you want to win anything - a race, yourself, your life - you have to go a little berserk.
— George A. Sheehan
We who run ... are different from those who merely study us. We are out there experiencing what they are trying to put into words.
— George A. Sheehan
The true runner is a very fortunate person. He has found something in him that is just perfect.
— George Sheehan
Courage is the bridge between our minds and our bodies.
— George Sheehan
Nothing is more certain than the defeat of a man who gives up.
— George A. Sheehan
If you don't have a challenge, find one,
— George Sheehan
Why race? The need to be tested, perhaps; the need to take risks; and the chance to be number one.
— George A. Sheehan
Of all the races, there is no better stage for heroism than a marathon.
— George A. Sheehan
The obsession with running is really an obsession with the potential for more and more life.
— George A. Sheehan
Running is just such a monestary
a retreat, a place to commune with God and yourself, a place for psychological and spiritual renewal. — George Sheehan
a retreat, a place to commune with God and yourself, a place for psychological and spiritual renewal. — George Sheehan
Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing.
— George A. Sheehan
Because until we write it down, we don't know what is actually at the root of our lives.
— George A. Sheehan
The most important thing I learned [from running] is that there is only one runner in this race, and that is me.
— George A. Sheehan
The desire to run comes from deep within us - from the unconscious, the instinctive, the intuitive.
— George A. Sheehan