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

The mind's first step to self-awareness must be through the body.

Why race? The need to be tested, perhaps; the need to take risks; and the chance to be number one.

The true runner is a very fortunate person. He has found something in him that is just perfect.

We who run...are different from those who merely study us. We are out there experiencing what they are trying to put into words.

I have a bumper sticker that Bowen created that says Regardless of my kids grades, they have an 'A' in my book'. Without play the child that still lives in all of us will always be incomplete. And not only physically, but creatively, intellectually, and spiritually as well.

No matter how old I get, the race remains one of life's most rewarding experiences. My times become slower and slower, but the experience of the race is unchanged: each race a drama, each race a challenge, each race stretching me in one way or another, and each race telling me more about myself and others.