Life is a positive-sum game. Everyone from the gold medallist to the last finisher can rejoice in a personal victory.

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

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

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.

There are as many reasons for running as there are days in a year.... But mostly I run because I am an animal and a child.

Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing.

There are as many reasons for running as there are days in the year, years in my life. But mostly I run because I am an animal and a child, an artist and a saint. So, too, are you. Find your own play, your own self-renewing compulsion, and you will become the person you are meant to be.