The most important thing I learned [from running] is that there is only one runner in this race, and that is me.
George A. SheehanSuccess 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.
George A. SheehanTo keep from decaying, to be a winner, the athlete must accept pain - not only accept it, but look for it, live with it, learn not to fear it.
George A. SheehanThere are as many reasons for running as there are days in a year.... But mostly I run because I am an animal and a child.
George A. SheehanThere are as many reasons for running as there are days in the year, years in my life. But mostly I run because I am an animal and a child, an artist and a saint. So, too, are you. Find your own play, your own self-renewing compulsion, and you will become the person you are meant to be.
George A. Sheehan