“‘We’ve got a motto here—you’re tougher than you think you are, and you can do more than you think you can.’” Pg. 61
“You don’t have to be fast. But you’d better be fearless.” Pg. 61
“Gotcha. Grueling, grimy, muddy, bloody, lonely trail-running equals moonlight and champagne. But yeah, Ann (Trason) insisted, running was romantic; and no, of course her friends didn’t get it because they’d never broken through.. You can’t muscle through a five-hour run that way; you have to relax into it.. until [your body] no longer resists the shock and begins to enjoy it. Relax enough, and your body becomes so familiar with the cradle-rocking rhythm that you almost forget you’re moving.” Pg. 69
“He who loves his body more than dominion over the empire can be given custody of the empire.” -Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching Pg. 77
“Nobody gives up the pursuit position if they don’t have to.. To move into the lead means making an act requiring fierceness and confidence; but fear must play some part.. no relaxation is possible, and all discretion is thrown to the wind.” Pg. 84
“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.. Distance running was revered because it was indispensible; it was the way we survived and thhrived and spread across the planet. You ran to eat and to avoid being eaten.. You had to love running or you wouldn’t live to love anything else..” Pg. 92-93
”..but his gut kept telling him that there was some kind of connection between the capacity to love and the capacity to love running. The engineering was ceratainly the same: both depended on loosening your grip on your own desires, putting aside what you wanted and appreciatingwhat you got, being patient and forgiving and undemanding.” Pg. 98
Quotes from Born To Run by Christopher McDougall
