Everything you need is already inside.

I still bother with runners I call hamburgers. They're never going to run any record times. But they can fulfill their own potential.

The real purpose of running isn't to win a race, it's to test the limits of the human heart.

A teacher is never too smart to learn from his pupils.

The idea that the harder you work, the better you're going to be is just garbage. The greatest improvement is made by the man or woman who works most intelligently.

If at the end of a race you know yourself that you have done your best, you're a winner.

Men of Oregon, I invite you to become students of your events. Running, one might say, is basically an absurd past-time upon which to be exhausting ourselves. But if you can find meaning, in the kind of running you have to do to stay on this team, chances are you will be able to find meaning in another absurd past-time: life.