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

Running is just such a monastery- a retreat, a place to commune with God and yourself, a place for psychological and spiritual renewal.

Once you have decided that winning isn't everything, you become a winner.

Everyone is an athlete. The only difference is that some of us are in training, and some are not.

Anything that changes your values changes your behaviour.

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.

Exercise: you don't have time not to