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

To make your life a work of art, you must have the material to work with. The race, any race, is just such an experience.

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.

There is no substitute for learning to live in our bodies.

Fitness has to be fun. If it is not play there will be no fitness. Play, you see, is where the process. Fitness is merely the product.

The music of a marathon is a powerful strain, one of those tunes of glory. It asks us to forsake pleasures, to discipline the body, to find courage, to renew faith and to become one's own person, utterly and completely.

Of all the races, there is no better stage for heroism than a marathon.