George A. Sheehan Quotes About Competition

Quotes about: Competition

• It's very hard in the beginning to understand that the whole idea is not to beat the other runners. Eventually you learn that the competition is against the little voice inside you that wants you to quit.

  George A. Sheehan

  Motivational, Running, Ideas

• The most important thing I learned [from running] is that there is only one runner in this race, and that is me.

  George A. Sheehan

  Sports, Running, Race

• 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. Sheehan

  Sports, Motivation, Exercise

• The real competition is against the little voice inside you that wants to quit

  George A. Sheehan

  Running, Real, Voice

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