We were born to run; we were born because we run.

Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up, it knows it must outrun the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning in Africa, a lion wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the slowest gazelle, or it will starve. It doesn't matter whether you're the lion or a gazelle-when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.

Everyone is built for running.

Sometimes,' she said, 'it takes a woman to bring out the best in a man.

Blaming the running injury epidemic on big, bad Nike seems too easy - but that's okay, because it's largely their fault.

The Tarahumara would party like this all night, then rouse themselves the next morning to face off in a running race that could last not two miles, not two hours, but two full days. According to the Mexican historian Francisco Almada, a Tarahumara champion once ran 435 miles, the equivalent of setting out for a jog in New York City and not stopping till you were closing in on Detroit.

You don't have to be fast. But you'd better be fearless.