Quotes by Christopher McDougall, Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen

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Make friends with pain, and you will never be alone.~Ken Chlouber, Colorado miner and creator of the Leadville Trail 100 — Christopher McDougall, Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen
That was the real secret of the Tarahumara: they'd never forgotten what it felt like to love running. They remembered th — Christopher McDougall, Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen
If you don't have answers to your problems after a four-hour run, you ain't getting them. — Christopher McDougall, Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen
Perhaps all our troubles - all the violence, obesity, illness, depression, and greed we can't overcome - began when we s — Christopher McDougall, Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen
Ask nothing from your running, and you'll get more than you ever imagined! — Christopher McDougall, Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen
Suffering is humbling. It pays to know how to get your butt kicked. — Christopher McDougall, Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen
You don't have to be fast. But you'd better be fearless. — Christopher McDougall, Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen
Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up, it knows it must outrun the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every mornin — Christopher McDougall, Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen
...there was some kind of connection between the capacity to love and the capacity to love *running*. The engineering wa — Christopher McDougall, Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen
If you don't think you were born to run you're not only denying history. You're denying who you are. — Christopher McDougall, Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen
There are two goddesses in your heart,” he told them. “The Goddess of Wisdom and the Goddess of Wealth. Everyone thinks — Christopher McDougall, Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen
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, — Christopher McDougall, Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen
But yeah, Ann [Trason] insisted, running was romantic; and no, of course her friends didn't get it because they'd never — Christopher McDougall, Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen
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, Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen
Blaming the running injury epidemic on big, bad Nike seems too easy - but that's okay, because it's largely their fault. — Christopher McDougall, Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen
-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 pr — Christopher McDougall, Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen
Nearly all runners do their slow runs too fast, and their fast runs too slow." Ken Mierke says. "So they're just trainin — Christopher McDougall, Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen
We wouldn't be alive without love we wouldn't have survived without running maybe we shouldn't be surprised that getting — Christopher McDougall, Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen
Distance running was revered because it was indispensable; it was the way we survived and thrived and spread across the — Christopher McDougall, Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen
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 — Christopher McDougall, Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen