No matter how old I get, the race remains one of life's most rewarding experiences.

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

The difference between a jogger and a runner is an entry blank.

Anything that changes your values changes your behaviour.

No matter how old I get, the race remains one of life's most rewarding experiences.

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.

Sport is where an entire life can be compressed into a few hours, where the emotions of a lifetime can be felt on an acre or two of ground, where a person can suffer and die and rise again on six miles of trails through a New York City park. Sport is a theater where sinner can turn saint and a common man become an uncommon hero, where the past and the future can fuse with the present. Sport is singularly able to give us peak experiences where we feel completely one with the world and transcend all conflicts as we finally become our own potential.