For every runner who tours the world running marathons, there are thousands who run to hear leaves and listen to rain and look to the day when it all is suddenly as easy as a bird in flight.

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

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

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

Do not tell me what to do, tell me what you do. Do not tell me what is good for me, tell me what is good for you. If, at the same time, you reveal the you in me, if you become a mirror to my inner self, then you have made a reader and a friend.

Exercise is done against one's wishes and maintained only because the alternative is worse.

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