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.
George A. SheehanRead
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.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Life's challenges are akin to running; we must strive to make the most of our circumstances.
This quote by George A. Sheehan emphasizes that both running and life present us with significant challenges that require us to maximize our efforts with the resources we have. It encourages individuals to focus on personal bests and to work diligently regardless of external limitations.
Themes
RunningLifeEffortSuccessMotivation
In practice
Example use cases
In a motivational speech for athletes focusing on personal growth.
More from George A. Sheehan
All quotes βThe distance runner is mysteriously reconciling the separations of body and mind, of pain and pleasure, of the conscious and the unconscious. He is repairing the rent, and healing the wound in his divided self. He has found a way to make the ordinary extraordinary; the commonplace unique; the everyday eternal.
George A. SheehanRead
No matter how old I get, the race remains one of life's most rewarding experiences. My times become slower and slower, but the experience of the race is unchanged: each race a drama, each race a challenge, each race stretching me in one way or another, and each race telling me more about myself and others.
George A. SheehanRead
The more I run, the more I want to run, and the more I live a life conditioned and influenced and fashioned by my running. And the more I run, the more certain I am that I am heading for my real goal: to become the person I am.
George A. SheehanRead
The key then is to find your own mountain, otherwise you will be competing with people who are not even in your event, and running up against the 'shoulds' and 'oughts' of that world, and the inevitable frustration and depression and feelings of failure. A person can be complete or incomplete, but one thing is sure, he cannot be someone else.
George A. SheehanRead
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