The more I run, the more I want to run, and the more I live a life conditioned and influenced and fashioned by my running. And the more I run, the more certain I am that I am heading for my real goal: to become the person I am.

Success rests with having the courage and endurance and, above all, the will to become the person you are, however peculiar that may be. Then you will be able to say, I found my hero and he is me.

If you want to win anything - a race, yourself, your life - you have to go a little berserk.

There are as many reasons for running as there are days in a year.... But mostly I run because I am an animal and a child.

I have found my hero and he is me.

I run each day to preserve the self I attained the day before and to secure the self yet to be.

The more I run, the more I want to run, and the more I live a life conditioned and influenced and fashioned by my running. And the more I run, the more certain I am that I am heading for my real goal: to become the person I am.