George A. Sheehan Quotes

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

Running has taken me in, and continues to comfort, heal and challenge me in all kinds of magical ways. I am not a 'good runner' because I am me. I am a good 'me' because I am a runner.

Men of Oregon, I invite you to become students of your events. Running, one might say, is basically an absurd past-time upon which to be exhausting ourselves. But if you can find meaning, in the kind of running you have to do to stay on this team, chances are you will be able to find meaning in another absurd past-time: life.

If you just go out there and run 100 miles, it breaks down a lot of barriers in terms of self-imposed limitations.

Being a runner means you are now 'free' to win and lose and live life to its fullest.

I'm a competitor. Gym work can be tough. But you just try to get through it.

In my most painful moments on the bike, I am at my most curious and I wonder each and every time how I will respond.

I can't do the whole run but I am able to start the race and I will be there at the end when winners cross the line.

Christianity is not a sprint but an endurance run. Therefore it is not how we start the race that counts, but how we complete it. How we finish is determined by the choices we make, and those are often formed by patterns we develop along the way.

Of all the races, there is no better stage for heroism than a marathon.

There are times when you run a marathon and you wonder, Why am I doing this? But you take a drink of water, and around the next bend, you get your wind back, remember the finish line, and keep going.

I never was content unless I was trying my skill...or testing my endurance.

Aiming for the marathon is a task of sorts which can include terrific highs and lows.

What I've learned from running is that the time to push hard is when you're hurting like crazy and you want to give up. Success is often just around the corner.

Surviving the grind of 18-hour days and getting up at four in the morning to work out for an hour so I'd have the energy to do it again the next day. I did not know I had that discipline. I did not know I had the discipline to learn a seven-page scene in three hours to shoot that day or the next day. I didn't know that I was capable of realizing that potential.

Tiger, come on now, you've still got work to do. This round and golf tournament are not over. Hang in there and finish the race.

The challenges in our lives are there to STRENGTHEN our CONVICTIONS. They are NOT there to run us over.

You have to compete in life because if you don't have no competition - no competition, no spirit, you know, you'll fall under the slightest struggle.

I want to run every race with a big heart.

I run because it's so symbolic of life. You have to drive yourself to overcome the obstacles. You might feel that you can't. But then you find your inner strength, and realize you're capable of so much more than you thought.

Even still, we run. We have not reached our average of 57.92 years without knowing that you run through it, and it hurts and you run through it some more, and if it hurts worse, you run through it even more, and when you finish, you will have broken through. In the end, when you are done, and stretching, and your heartbeat slows, and your sweat dries, if you've run through the hard part, you will remember no pain.

The real purpose of running isn't to win a race, it's to test the limits of the human heart.

There's no glory in climbing a mountain if all you want to do is to get to the top. It's experiencing the climb itself - in all its moments of revelation, heartbreak, and fatigue - that has to be the goal.

The harder the race, the better.