Christopher McDougall 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.
The reason we race isn't so much to beat each other... but to be with each other.
You don't stop running because you get old, you get old because you stop running.
We've got a motto here-you're tougher than you think you are, and you can do more than you think you can.
Anyone can do running. Running should be easy. It should be fun. It should include everyone. It shouldn't be a punishment for eating cheesecake, which is what we've turned it into.
You don't have to be fast. But you'd better be fearless.
If you can run six miles on a summer day, then you, my friend, are a lethal weapon in the animal kingdom.
One of the most dangerous and best-kept secrets of the medical profession is the epidemic of anesthesiologists who are addicted to their own drugs.
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.
I received the best advice for running I ever heard: 'You're not going to win, so just relax. If it feels like work, you're running too hard.
The words of the social critic Eric Hoffer were ringing true: "Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and turns into a racket."
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!
The only way to truly conquer something, as every great philosopher and geneticist will tell you, is to love it.
Blaming the running injury epidemic on big, bad Nike seems too easy - but that's okay, because it's largely their fault.
For nearly 2 million years, our ancestors survived and thrived and spread across the planet because they could run other mammals into heat exhaustion.
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.
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.
He was onto something. Something huge. It wasn't just how to run; it was how to live, the essence of who we are as a species and what we're meant to be.
We're constantly told that running will ruin our knees and outrage our hearts, but for nearly all of human existence, it was associated with freedom, vitality, and eternal youth.
Even Charles Darwin, that human decoder ring of bizarre behavior, found the idea of saving a stranger's life to be a total head-scratcher.
But you can't muscle through a five-hour run that way; you have to relax into it like easing your body into a hot bath, until it no longer resists the shock and begins to enjoy it.
That was the real secret of the Tarahumara: they'd never forgotten what it felt like to love running. They remembered that running was mankind's first fine art, our original act of inspired creation.
Suffering is humbling. It pays to know how to get your butt kicked.
The reason we race isn't so much to beat each other, he understood, but to be with each other.
If you can run six miles on a summer day then you, my friend, are a lethal weapon in the animal kingdom. We can dump heat on the run, but animals can't pant while they gallop.
Don't fight the trail, take what it gives you. If you have a choice between one step or two between rocks, take three.
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.
The words of the social critic Eric Hoffer were ringing true: "Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and turns into a racket.
