The obsession with running is really an obsession with the potential for more and more life.

To know you are one with what you are doing, to know that you are a complete athlete, begins with believing you are a runner.

Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the person you believe you were meant to be.

Some think guts is sprinting at the end of a race. But guts is what got you there to begin with. Guts start back in the hills with 6 miles to go and you're thinking of how you can get out of this race without anyone noticing. Guts begin when you still have forty minutes of torture left and you're already hurting more than you ever remember.

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

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

The more I run, the more I want to run, and the more I live a life conditioned and influenced and fashioned by my running. And the more I run, the more certain I am that I am heading for my real goal: to become the person I am.