Of all the races, there is no better stage for heroism than a marathon.

To make your life a work of art, you must have the material to work with. The race, any race, is just such an experience.

The obsession with running is really an obsession with the potential for more and more life.

Listen to your body. Do not be a blind and deaf tenant.

Fitness has to be fun. If it is not play there will be no fitness. Play, you see, is where the process. Fitness is merely the product.

The most important thing I learned [from running] is that there is only one runner in this race, and that is me.

Sport is singularly able to give us peak experience where we feel completely one with the world and transcend all conflicts as we finally become our own potential.