The mind's first step to self-awareness must be through the body.

Why race? The need to be tested, perhaps; the need to take risks; and the chance to be number one.

The distance runner is mysteriously reconciling the separations of body and mind, of pain and pleasure, of the conscious and the unconscious. He is repairing the rent, and healing the wound in his divided self. He has found a way to make the ordinary extraordinary; the commonplace unique; the everyday eternal.

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.

I run each day to preserve the self I attained the day before and to secure the self yet to be.

Every runner is an experiment of one.

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