The study of motivation goes back to the Greeks. Their sports were essential to their education. They saw in sports the integration of body, mind and soul, the creation of beauty, the mastering of athletics, and the challenge of competition. A French sociologist points this out. "Sports," he wrote, was part of the education of the citizen. He was expected to engage in exercise for a whole series of reasons that had to do with the shaping of the citizen; the relation between moral good and physical good; and the growth of a person.
George A. SheehanFitness has to be fun. If it is not play there will be no fitness. Play, you see, is where the process. Fitness is merely the product.
George A. SheehanThe 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.
George A. Sheehan