Christopher McDougall, Born To Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, And The Greatest Race The World Has Never Seen Quotes

If you don't think you were born to run you're not only denying history. You're denying who you are.

If you don't have answers to your problems after a four-hour run, you ain't getting them.

You don't have to be fast. But you'd better be fearless.

We run when we're scared, we run when we're ecstatic, we run away from our problems and run around for a good time.

Make friends with pain, and you will never be alone.~Ken Chlouber, Colorado miner and creator of the Leadville Trail 100 mile race

Ask nothing from your running, and you'll get more than you ever imagined!

Blaming the running injury epidemic on big, bad Nike seems too easy - but that's okay, because it's largely their fault.

We wouldn't be alive without love we wouldn't have survived without running maybe we shouldn't be surprised that getting better at one could make you better at the other.

Suffering is humbling. It pays to know how to get your butt kicked.

We say the rarajipari is the game of life, Angel said. You never know how hard it will be. You never know when it will end. You can't control it. You can only adjust.

Don't fight the trail, take what it gives you. If you have a choice between one step or two between rocks, take three.

The reason we race isn't so much to beat each other, he understood, but to be with each other.