As runners, we all go through many transitions-- transitions that closely mimic the larger changes we experience in a lifetime. First, we try to run faster. Then we try to run harder. Then we learn to accept ourselves and our limitations, and at last, we can appreciate the true joy and meaning of running.

Success does not come to the most righteous and rigorously disciplined but to those who continue running.

Set a goal and a program for yourself, and everything else will follow. Guaranteed.

I always tell beginning runners: Train your brain first. It's much more important than your heart or legs.

I run because I enjoy it — not always, but most of the time. I run because I have always run — not trained, but run. What do I get? Joy and pain. Good health and injuries. Exhilaration and despair. A feeling of accomplishment and a feeling of waste. The sunrise and the sunset.

In the longest run of all, your life, you're going to be a winner.

Everyone stumbles at one time or another. It's the human condition