Quotes from George A. Sheehan

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

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

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.

Every runner is an experiment of one.

There is no substitute for learning to live in our bodies.

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.

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

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.

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

Sport is singularly able to give us peak experience where we feel completely one with the world and transcend all conflicts as we finally become our own potential.

Anything that changes your values changes your behaviour.

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

Life is a positive-sum game. Everyone from the gold medallist to the last finisher can rejoice in a personal victory.

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.

Success rests with having the courage and endurance and, above all, the will to become the person you are, however peculiar that may be. Then you will be able to say, I found my hero and he is me.

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

Exercise: you don't have time not to

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

Play is where life lives

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

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

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