George A. Sheehan Quotes, Thoughts and image

Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing.

The answer to the big questions in running is the same as the answer to the big questions in life: Do the best with what you've got.

The real competition is against the little voice inside you that wants to quit

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

Everyone is an athlete. The only difference is that some of us are in training, and some are not.

Sweat cleanses from the inside. It comes from places a shower will never reach.

Play is where life lives

Listen to your body. Do not be a blind and deaf tenant.

I will not last forever. But I am damn well going to know I have been here.

Life is the greatest experiment. Each of us is an experiment of one-observer and subject-making choices, living with them, recording the effects.

The difference between a jogger and a runner is an entry blank.

Out on the roads there is fitness and self-discovery and the persons we were destined to be.

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.

Anything that changes your values changes your behaviour.

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

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

I have found my hero and he is me.

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

People begin running for any number of motives, but we stick to it for one basic reason-to find out who we really are.

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.

There is nothing more certain than the defeat of the man who gives up.

The obsession with running is really an obsession with the potential for more and more life.

If you want to win anything - a race, yourself, your life - you have to go a little berserk.

We may think there is willpower involved, but more likely... change is due to want power. Wanting the new addiction more than the old one. Wanting the new me in preference to the person I am now.

Every runner is an experiment of one.

The mind's first step to self-awareness must be through the body.

Exercise is done against one's wishes and maintained only because the alternative is worse.

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.

No matter how old I get, the race remains one of life's most rewarding experiences.