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

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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.

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• Suffering is humbling. It pays to know how to get your butt kicked.

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

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• It’s easy to get outside yourself when you’re thinking about someone else.

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• Running is the heart of what it means to be human.

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• Ask nothing from running and you’ll get more than you ever imagined.

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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.

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

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

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

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

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Christopher McDougall (12)

Birth:	1962
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Author, Journalist

About

Christopher McDougall is an American author and journalist best known for his 2009 best-selling book Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen. He has also written for Esquire, The New York Times Magazine, Outside, Men's Journal, and New York, and was a contributing editor for Men's Health.

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