Christopher McDougall Quotes

I can run a good few miles. I box a little.

I like a man who can run faster than I can.

Whenever I'm being invited to the New York City Marathon like today, I need to think twice because I know it's a very tough race.

I can still run in a straight line, and I can still throw a punch.

Being physical is something I pride myself on.

I've always been pretty athletic.

We are just not made up to be middle distance runners.

Cats 25 years younger can't run with me.

I came back after my surgery, throwing four to six miles harder than I did before.

They are very light footed in walking and in running, as well the men as the women: so that a woman thinks nothing of running a league or two, as many times we saw them do: and herein they have a very great advantage over us Christians: they swim with an expertness beyond all belief, and the women better than the men

I do track, I run football fields, I run hills. I run until you feel like you can't run any more. I do the pool, I do anything that takes my body to the limit.

I can run around all day.

Football is a physical strenuous sport. These guys are running all of the time.

I run the most for every team that I play for. That's because I ran so much when I was younger.

I feel like I'm one of the strong middleweights, physically.

I love being physical. It makes me feel like I sickly love the pain of it.

I have so much respect for people that can do it [tredmill running], I wish I could because it looks really cool and really fun.

Distance running was revered because it was indispensable; it was the way we survived and thrived and spread across the planet. You ran to eat and to avoid being eaten; you ran to find a mate and impress her, and with her you ran off to start a new life together. You had to love running, or you wouldn't live to love anything else. And like everything else we love-everything we sentimentally call our 'passions' and 'desires'-it's really an encoded ancestral necessity. We were born to run; we were born because we run.

Everyone is built for running.

There are guys who want to look good, and there are guys who want to perform at their best. Being fit is about being able to perform at your best, not necessarily just looking your best.

Gareth Bale literally has three lungs

Long distance running is particularly good training in perseverance.

I definitely run up right, and I've got pretty good speed.

I was thinking back to all the time in the gym, working hard, and that spurred me on [winning New York marathon just ten months after giving birth

It doesn't matter who you are, if you've got the legs, you can hang with them.