Born To Run Quotes

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

  Christopher McDougall

  Running, Thinking, Ifs

  Christopher McDougall (2010). “Born to Run: The hidden tribe, the ultra-runners, and the greatest race the world has never seen”, p.244, Profile Books

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• We were born to run; we were born because we run.

  Christopher McDougall

  Running, Born, Passion And Desire

  Christopher McDougall (2010). “Born to Run: The hidden tribe, the ultra-runners, and the greatest race the world has never seen”, p.93, Profile Books

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• Distance running was revered because it was indispensable; it was the way we survived and thrived and spread across the planet. You ran to eat and to avoid being eaten; you ran to find a mate and impress her, and with her you ran off to start a new life together. You had to love running, or you wouldn't live to love anything else. And like everything else we love-everything we sentimentally call our 'passions' and 'desires'-it's really an encoded ancestral necessity. We were born to run; we were born because we run.

  Christopher McDougall

  Running, Distance, Passion

  FaceBook post by Christopher McDougall from Jan 17, 2013

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• You were born to run. Maybe not that fast, maybe not that far, maybe not as efficiently as others. But to get up and move, to fire up that entire energy-producing, oxygen-delivering, bone-strengthening process we call running.

  Florence Griffith Joyner

  Running, Moving, Oxygen

  Florence Griffith Joyner, John Hanc (1999). “Running For Dummies”, For Dummies

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• We gotta get out while we're young, 'cause tramps like us, baby we were born to run.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Running, Baby, Travel

  "Born to Run" (song) (1974)

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

  Christopher McDougall

  Running, Meditation, Answers

  Christopher McDougall (2010). “Born to Run: The hidden tribe, the ultra-runners, and the greatest race the world has never seen”, p.213, Profile Books

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

  Christopher McDougall

  Running, Race, Reason

  FaceBook post by Christopher McDougall from Nov 08, 2016

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• Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up, it knows it must outrun the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning in Africa, a lion wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the slowest gazelle, or it will starve. It doesn't matter whether you're the lion or a gazelle-when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.

  Christopher McDougall

  Inspirational, Motivational, Running

  Christopher McDougall (2010). “Born to Run: The hidden tribe, the ultra-runners, and the greatest race the world has never seen”, p.13, Profile Books

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• Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  Pudd'nhead Wilson ch. 6, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar" (1894)

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• You don't stop running because you get old, you get old because you stop running.

  Christopher McDougall

  Positive, Basketball, Running

  Christopher McDougall (2010). “Born to Run: The hidden tribe, the ultra-runners, and the greatest race the world has never seen”, p.240, Profile Books

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• 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.

  Christopher McDougall

  Running, Good Times, Scared

  FaceBook post by Christopher McDougall from Jan 31, 2011

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• Beyond the very extreme of fatigue and distress, we may find amounts of ease and power we never dreamed ourselves to own; sources of strength never taxed at all because we never push through the obstruction

  William James

  Ease, May, Source

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• We've got a motto here-you're tougher than you think you are, and you can do more than you think you can.

  Christopher McDougall

  Thinking, Motto, Can Do

  Christopher McDougall (2010). “Born to Run: The hidden tribe, the ultra-runners, and the greatest race the world has never seen”, p.61, Profile Books

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• I was born to be a runner. I simply love to run. It's almost like the faster I go, the easier it becomes.

  Mary Decker

  Running, Simply Love, Easier

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• The only way to truly conquer something, as every great philosopher and geneticist will tell you, is to love it.

  Christopher McDougall

  Way, Philosopher, Conquer

  Christopher McDougall (2010). “Born to Run: The hidden tribe, the ultra-runners, and the greatest race the world has never seen”, p.125, Profile Books

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

  Christopher McDougall

  Running, Asks

  Christopher McDougall (2010). “Born to Run: The hidden tribe, the ultra-runners, and the greatest race the world has never seen”, p.94, Profile Books

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

  Christopher McDougall

  Fearless

  Christopher McDougall (2010). “Born to Run: The hidden tribe, the ultra-runners, and the greatest race the world has never seen”, p.61, Profile Books

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• There's something so universal about that sensation, the way running unites our two most primal impulses: fear and pleasure. 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.

  Christopher McDougall

  Running, Two, Way

  FaceBook post by Christopher McDougall from Jul 13, 2011

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• Way before we were scratching pictures on caves or beating rhythms on hollow trees we were perfecting the art of combining our breath and mind and muscles into fluid self-propulsion over wild terrain.

  Christopher McDougall

  Running, Art, Self

  Christopher McDougall (2010). “Born to Run: The hidden tribe, the ultra-runners, and the greatest race the world has never seen”, p.92, Profile Books

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• Only recently have we come up with the technology to turn lazing around into a way of life. We've taken our sinewy, durable, hunter-gatherer bodies and plunked them into an artificial world of leisure.

  Christopher McDougall

  Taken, Technology, Hunters

  Christopher McDougall (2010). “Born to Run: The hidden tribe, the ultra-runners, and the greatest race the world has never seen”, p.243, Profile Books

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• Nearly all runners do their slow runs too fast, and their fast runs too slow." Ken Mierke says. "So they're just training their bodies to burn sugar, which is the last thing a distance runner wants. You've got enough fat stored to run to California, so the more you train your body to burn fat instead of sugar, the longer your limited sugar tank is going to last." -The way to activate your fat-burning furnace is by staying below your aerobic threshold--your hard-breathing point--during your endurance runs.

  Christopher McDougall

  Running, Distance, California

  Christopher McDougall (2010). “Born to Run: The hidden tribe, the ultra-runners, and the greatest race the world has never seen”, p.207, Profile Books

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• Wendy, let me in, I wanna be your friend. I wanna guard your dreams and visions.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Friendship, Dream, Vision

  "Song: "Born to Run"". 1975.

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• You can always do more than you think you can.

  John Wooden

  Thinking

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• Together, we'll live with the sadness. I'll love you with all the madness in my soul.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Love You, Sadness, Soul

  Bruce Springsteen (2016). “Born to run (edició en català)”, p.255, Malpaso Ediciones SL

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• The highway's jammed with broken heroes on a last chance power drive.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Hero, Broken, Lasts

  Song: I Was Born To Run, Album: Born To Run, 1975

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