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

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.

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

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.

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.

Preparedness, when properly pursued, is a way of life, not a sudden, spectacular program.

Suffering can make saints of people as they learn patience, long-suffering and self-mastery.

Real craftsmanship, regardless of the skill involved, reflects real caring, and real caring reflects our attitude about ourselves, about our fellowmen, and about life.

We should be involved in quiet acts of selfless service.

True repentance does not permit repetition.