I will not last forever. But I am damn well going to know I have been here.

Anything that changes your values changes your behaviour.

There are as many reasons for running as there are days in the year, years in my life. But mostly I run because I am an animal and a child, an artist and a saint. So, too, are you. Find your own play, your own self-renewing compulsion, and you will become the person you are meant to be.

Out on the roads there is fitness and self-discovery and the persons we were destined to be.

Everyone is an athlete. The only difference is that some of us are in training, and some are not.

Like everyone else, I want to be challenged. I want to find out whether or not I am a coward. I want to see how much effort I can put out . . . what I can endure . . . if I measure up. Running allows that.

To keep from decaying, to be a winner, the athlete must accept pain - not only accept it, but look for it, live with it, learn not to fear it.