Quotes by Christopher McDougall

Christopher McDougall

-The reason we race isn’t so much to beat each other but to be with each other. -The Hopis consider running a form of prayer; they offer every step as a sacrifice to a loved one, and in return ask the Great Spirit to match their strength with some of his own.

Prayer

Running

Sacrifice

…there was some kind of connection between the capacity to love and the capacity to love running. The engineering was certainly the same: both depended on loosening your grip on your own desires, putting aside what you wanted and appreciating what you’ve got, being patient and forgiving and… undemanding…maybe we shouldn’t be surprised that getting better at one could make you better at the other.

Capacity To Love

Engineering

Running

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.

Hot

Relax

Running

Deny your nature, and it will erupt in some other, uglier way.

Deny

Way

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.

Ideas

Saving

Stranger

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.

Inspirational

Motivational

Running

Extreme heroism springs from something that no scientific theory can fully explain; it’s an illogical impulse that flies in the face of biology, psychology, actuarial statistics, and basic common sense.

Common Sense

Psychology

Spring

human urine is both nutrient-rich and an effective tooth whitener

Humans

Rich

Teeth

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

Answers

Meditation

Running

In ‘Tarahumara’ land, there was no crime, war or theft. There was no corruption, obesity, drug addiction, greed, wife-beating, child abuse, heart disease, high blood pressure, or carbon emissions. They didn’t get diabetes, or depressed, or even old: 50-year-olds outran teenagers.

Children

Teenager

War

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Animal

Answers

Art

Beats

Born

Born To Run

Capacity To Love

Children

Colorado

Common Sense

Deny

Easy

Easy To Get

Engineering

Fall

Feet

Fun

Good Times

Heart

Hot

Humans

Hunters

Ideas

Inspiration

Inspirational

Jealous

Mean

Meditation

Men

Mentor

Motivation

Motivational

Pace

Pain

Persistence

Prayer

Psychology

Race

Relax

Rich

Running

Sacrifice

Saving

Scared

Self

Shoes

Should

Spring

Stranger

Stress

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Quotes by Christopher McDougall

Christopher McDougall

-The reason we race isn’t so much to beat each other but to be with each other. -The Hopis consider running a form of prayer; they offer every step as a sacrifice to a loved one, and in return ask the Great Spirit to match their strength with some of his own.

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.

Deny your nature, and it will erupt in some other, uglier way.

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.

Extreme heroism springs from something that no scientific theory can fully explain; it’s an illogical impulse that flies in the face of biology, psychology, actuarial statistics, and basic common sense.

human urine is both nutrient-rich and an effective tooth whitener

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

In ‘Tarahumara’ land, there was no crime, war or theft. There was no corruption, obesity, drug addiction, greed, wife-beating, child abuse, heart disease, high blood pressure, or carbon emissions. They didn’t get diabetes, or depressed, or even old: 50-year-olds outran teenagers.

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