The real competition is against the little voice inside you that wants to quit

If you want to find the answers to the Big Questions about your soul, you'd best begin with the Little Answers about your body.

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

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

It's very hard in the beginning to understand that the whole idea is not to beat the other runners. Eventually you learn that the competition is against the little voice inside you that wants you to quit.

Running is just such a monastery- a retreat, a place to commune with God and yourself, a place for psychological and spiritual renewal.

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.