Life is the greatest experiment. Each of us is an experiment of one-observer and subject-making choices, living with them, recording the effects.

People begin running for any number of motives, but we stick to it for one basic reason-to find out who we really are.

The most important thing I learned [from running] is that there is only one runner in this race, and that is me.

I have found my hero and he is me.

I run each day to preserve the self I attained the day before and to secure the self yet to be.

Once you have decided that winning isn't everything, you become a winner.

Anything that changes your values changes your behaviour.

If you want to find the answers to the Big Questions about your soul, you'd best begin with the Little Answers about your body.

Out on the roads there is fitness and self-discovery and the persons we were destined to be.

The difference between a jogger and a runner is an entry blank.

I will not last forever. But I am damn well going to know I have been here.

Listen to your body. Do not be a blind and deaf tenant.

Play is where life lives

Sweat cleanses from the inside. It comes from places a shower will never reach.

Everyone is an athlete. The only difference is that some of us are in training, and some are not.

Running is just such a monastery- a retreat, a place to commune with God and yourself, a place for psychological and spiritual renewal.

The real competition is against the little voice inside you that wants to quit

The answer to the big questions in running is the same as the answer to the big questions in life: Do the best with what you've got.

Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing.