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

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

The true runner is a very fortunate person. He has found something in him that is just perfect.

And while these pounds were being shed, while the physiological miracles were occurring with the heart and muscle and metabolism, psychological marvels were taking place as well. Just so, the world over, bodies, minds, and souls are constantly being born again, during miles on the road.

Fitness is just a stage you pass through on the way to becoming a racer.

Anything that changes your values changes your behaviour.

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.