Christopher McDougall Quotes

I don't have muscle tone. I'm just flab. I'm not a daredevil. I don't like pain, I don't like cold, I don't want to feel exhausted. But the sense of accomplishment is something I've never felt before, in a physical sense.

Running is always an exercise in humility.

Be a dreamer. If you don't know how to dream, you're dead.

You have to wonder at times what you're doing out there. Over the years, I've given myself a thousand reasons to keep running, but it always comes back to where it started. It comes down to self-satisfaction and a sense of achievement.

I try to stay focused on my creativity.

Imagination is an instrument of survival.

We must use time creatively.

You should make something. You should bring something into the world that wasn't in the world before. It doesn't matter what it is. It doesn't matter if it's a table or a film or gardening-everyone should create. You should do something, then sit back and say, 'I did that.'

There is nothing better than having a personal-best day, being in shape and pushing myself beyond my own limits.

Even though running is physically straining, it's mentally refreshing. Especially when you feel like you've accomplished something.

Over the years, I've given myself a thousand reasons to keep running, but it always comes back to where it started. It comes down to self-satisfaction and a sense of achievement.

We are different, in essence, from other men. If you want to win something, run 100 meters. If you want to experience something, run a marathon.

Art makes us human, music makes us human, and I deeply feel that science makes us human.

I've started running three or four times a week, which prompts millions of sketch ideas.

I started running outside when I was at 'Biggest Loser.' Then I got runner's knee, and thought I was never going to be able to shake it. When I overcame that and ran the L.A. Marathon, it was such an amazing thing, and now running is such a part of my routine.

When I said I wanted to run a marathon, I wanted to do it under four hours. But when I started training, I was like, 'Oh I got this,' so I wanted to run between 3:30 and 3:35. I'm really proud of myself.

There was this point in my life where I thought that I was not fit enough to do a full 90 on the field. I got up at maybe six o'clock in the morning, went running, then just kept doing laps.

My goals are to run the London Marathon and do the best that I can.

I ran a marathon, completed a mud run and jumped from a plane.

By running the N.Y.C. Marathon in 2008, I became a runner and I think that's what works the best for me and keeps my body the way I like it to be.

The more time you have, you should dedicate it to do creative work.

Above all, we are coming to understand that the arts incarnate the creativity of a free people.

Running! If there's any activity happier, more exhilarating, more nourishing to the imagination, I can't think what it might be. In running the mind flies with the body; the mysterious efflorescence of language seems to pulse in the brain, in rhythm with our feet and the swinging of our arms.

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

Running is the greatest metaphor for life, because you get out of it what you put into it.