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.

We run when we're scared, we run when we're ecstatic, we run away from our problems and run around for a good time.

When I'm out on a long run," she continued, "the only thing in life that matters is finishing the run. For once, my brain isn't going blehblehbleh all the time. Everything quiets down, and the only thing going on is pure flow. It's jus time and the movement and the motion.That's what love--just being a barbarian, running through the woods.

Running should be free, man.

The reason we race isn't so much to beat each other... but to be with each other.

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

If you don't have answers to your problems after a four-hour run, you ain't getting them.