I was unable to walk for a whole week after that, so much did the race take out of me. But it was the most pleasant exhaustion I have ever known.

Why should I practice running slow? I already know how to run slow. I want to learn to run fast.

Is it raining? That doesn't matter. Am I tired? That doesn't matter, either. Then willpower will be no problem.

Great is the victory, but the friendship of all is greater.

When a person trains once, nothing happens. When a person forces himself to do a thing a hundred or a thousand times, then he certainly has developed in more ways than physical. Is it raining? That doesn't matter. Am I tired? That doesn't matter either. Then willpower will be no problem.

Try for a goal that's reasonable, then gradually raise it.

A runner must run with dreams in his heart.